Dr. Z was one of the oral surgeons I saw before I knew that the excruciating pain I was having was Trigeminal Neuralgia. Before I was diagnosed with the TN I was convinced my pain was coming from my wisdom teeth. So, Dr. Z. put me to sleep and pulled them. He was great to me at that time.
I get home and the novocaine is wearing off and I realize the pain is still there and still as excruciating as it was before he pulled them. So I call him, after hours on his emergency line and I tell him the pain is still there and is still killing me. He then proceeds to RUDELY tell me that if it's pain killers I'm after he isn't giving me anymore so deal with it and hangs up on me. I never wanted their pain killers. They didn't work anyway. I just wanted to be fixed and out of pain. All I could do was cry.
Now granted, he couldn't have known that my problem was TN, and I'm sure in his line of work he runs into a lot of junkies ( I suffered because of the junkies plenty of times, not just with him.) but he still could have been nicer about it. :shrug:
Even though none of them could have known....There's a few doctors around that I stay away from because of the way they treated my during my TN ordeal, and Dr. Z is one of them.
I'm sure under normal circumstances the guy is great.