Workers Comp Rights After an On-the-Job Injury

[Visvalor]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

I went to the ortho today finally, and after less then 10 seconds of looking through my MRI's in the overhead light he said there is nothing visibly wrong with my back. He did not have a copy of the radiologists report so I could not argue with him. I did not have it on me either, because I assumed he would have that.

So now I gotta wait 4 weeks and do some physical therapy and go back to a guy who says there is nothing wrong with me

I spoke to my clinic concentra doctor and said that I'd have to talk to him with a radiologist report this time and he'd probably change his diagnosis. CHANGE HIS DIAGNOSIS? Isn't he supposed to actually LOOK at the ****ing thing, not just read someone elses junk

What this country needs is a severely*********action against some doctors/lawyers/IC to really wake them up.

[tony]

It would also get you 20 years behind bars plus you'd "wake up" nobody, you'd just look like a desperate fool.
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Tony

[rimmer]

Visvalor, i feel your pain. i have had an injury like yours for about a year now. the first time it happened i had only worked at the place for a month and i needed to be there for three to get insurance for my family. that's the stupidest most ironic part for mine. i am only there for the insurance. i twisted my back and had pain similar to yours. the pain felt like it was coming up from my next to smallest toe.

the wc nurse practitioner that saw me first had the right idea. she said it was something to do with maybe L3 or L4 and for me to go look online to see which would effect that toe and my foot. when i went back i saw the doc and he squeezed my foot and i said ouch. he didn't listen when i explained several times that the pain went all the way up my leg to my lower back. he told me it was morton's neuroma (which i've found out is only in your foot) and he said it was not work related. i am still getting collection calls for that.

FIVE months i hobbled around our store in pain before it got tollerable. i did go to a foot doctor because that is what the wc quack said to do. he didn't do any of his own checking and took the wc quack's diagnosis. he glued a pad to my foot which made it feel much worse. then he gave me a cortisone shot which did nothing. he told me that morton's neuroma cannot be seen on an mri, ultrasound or an xray. he finally wanted to do surgury to remove the nerve in my foot!

i stopped going to him then.

fast forward to this year. a very similar thing happened and i went to the same occupational clinic. thankfully he was no longer there. the new guy isn't any better. he told me to take it easy and take tylenol and ibuprofen and see him in a week. i said it took five months before and he told me it should be gone by the next appointment. right.

i had to call in hurt on saturday because i couldn't walk. the store manager said i had to come in because my release said light duty. now they say i can't use sick time for the missed day. i work grave and took 8 norco to make it through the night last night. way too many. they made me sign a paper saying i am at minimum wage because i am on light duty. why do i get cut when it was a work injury?

anyhow, on your case, don't let them tell you it will go away anytime soon on it's own. if it is anything close to mine then my condolences man. it sucks. you feel like there is no justice. you just want to be better. i don't want to take pills forever. i want to be fixed. i took this crappy job for insurance for my family. ironic that i get screwed by wc. i don't want time off, i don't want money. i want the pain gone.

i go in today at 2:30. i hope the jerk listens to me this time.

[ADJ]

I am little confused here. You indicated the doctor looked at the mri films for "10 seconds" and said there was nothing visibly wrong. A couple of paragraphs later you indicated "Isn't he supposed to actually LOOK at the ****ing thing, not just read someone elses junk". Didn't the doctor do that? He actually looked at the films instead of the report. I would suggest you actually sit down with the doctor and have him review the films with you. If there is a disc bulge or herniation you will see it on the film. Did you look at the film or have the Concentra doctor look at the film? What did he say?

Rimmer....Pain does not generally radiate up when someone has injured their back. It generally radiates down to the lower extremity. To have pain on contact when the doctor squeezes your toe would not be indicative of pain from your back but a local type injury to that toe ot foot. Did you ever have an mri done of the back?

Rimmer....Pain does not generally radiate up when someone has injured their back. It generally radiates down to the lower extremity. To have pain on contact when the doctor squeezes your toe would not be indicative of pain from your back but a local type injury to that toe ot foot. Did you ever have an mri done of the back?

[Visvalor]

Doctor ortho held them up to the MRI, doctor clinic took the word of the report. I spose I wasn't clear

Concentra doctor refuses to look at MRI says he is not qualified, ortho says he's too qualified to look at the MRI and they don't know what they are talking about.

Ortho says I'm fine, but put me in PT for back rehab

Lots of loopholes and in the end I'm sure I'll win this :P

[rimmer]

ADJ- He squeezed fairly hard. It wasn't the same kind of pain- he kind of spread the two smallest toe apart with the squeeze.

I'll try to start a new thread for my situation, I didn't mean to pull away from Visvalor's situation.

I will say this about the appiontment I had yesterday: the doctor wasn't there and I was seen by a different nurse practitioner. He didn't quite believe me either about my foot pain (not the squeezing) having been caused by my back twist.

He did send me over to the physical therapist. This was the greatest turn of events that could have happened! The physical therapist pulled on my leg while I was laying down. She pulled firmly and the pain in my foot went completely away and the back pain was greatly reduced. She saw the light! She found the connection that the other doctors didn't even look for. I continue PT on Friday and hope she will get me back to normal.

Getting these doctors to listen and look where they should is ridiculous! Some things seem so obvious to the untrained person that maybe the doctors think it couldn't be so simple.

[Visvalor]

Well still having trouble getting everything to work out, still not back to work, still in pain and still having to fight tooth and nail to get anyone to do anything

I started making appointments with the doctors without having the workers comp do it for me, I'm sick of waiting on them. I want to be fixed and it's obvious I won't be until I take matters into my own hands.

I still haven't even gone to court to fight to get benefits, I am trying to get short term disability instead as I was paying for that but getting that even involves jumping through loops. I got the doctor to fill out the paper for my short term disability for me to stop working, but he won't do the same for workers compensation?

Anyways went to see a neuro surgeon for eval, assigned me 30 more days of surgery, and next I see him we'll do the back shots. And then see what else I guess... at least I don't need surgery.

Now I gotta go back to ortho and get my knee and ankle looked at as they think the problem lies there... I don't know why this is so difficult they stuck me in the MRI machine completely, why couldn't they look at my ankle and knee while they were at it?

Owell... the fight rages on. Anyone know a competent WC lawyer in Miami?