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A woman is speaking out against a local hospital in Idaho, alleging she was medically neglected, improperly medicated, and repeatedly left in extreme pain following multiple procedures to treat a serious kidney infection. In a series of emotional TikTok videos recorded from her hospital bed, the woman urged viewers to avoid the facility entirely, accusing staff of overdosing her on opioids, refusing to administer pain medication on time, and attempting to discharge her despite worsening test results. “Don’t ever go to the hospital here,” she said in one clip.
She Claims She Was Placed on a Schedule
According to the patient, she was admitted after developing a double kidney infection and kidney stones, which required doctors to place a stent and later perform a second procedure that she claims turned out to be more severe than initially expected.
She said her pain was intense and ongoing, and that her medical team had previously agreed to administer pain medication on a scheduled basis, rather than forcing her to repeatedly ask for it while already in distress. “I had it where I was on a schedule to not chase pain,” she explained, adding that multiple nurses had followed that plan during earlier shifts. That arrangement, she said, abruptly changed.
Recorded Exchange With Nurse Over Pain Medication
In one video, the patient spoke of an incident where she had been asleep for hours due to exhaustion. When she did not wake up in time for her pain medication, she claims a nurse marked her pain as “under control” while she slept.
The patient later shared a secretly recorded conversation between herself and the nurse, in which she asked why her medication had not been given on time. The nurse responded that all medications had been due at 1:00 p.m., but because the patient was asleep, she was not awakened. The nurse explained that the opioid medication was ordered as PRN, meaning it had to be requested by the patient. “If you don’t ask for them, I don’t give them to you,” the nurse said. “That’s the way that the orders are.”
The patient pushed back, insisting that her doctor had instructed staff to keep her on a schedule specifically to prevent lapses in pain control. “I can’t just wake up [from] my sleep and just ask for it when I’m in so much [expletive] pain,” she said. “That’s why all of my nurses have said that they were gonna wake me up.” The woman also pointed to notes written on the whiteboard in her room indicating when her last dose had been given and when the next one was due.
The nurse told her that only Tylenol and Toradol were scheduled and that oxycodone was available only if requested. The woman had to accept the medication she was given, but claims she remained in pain despite that.
More on What Happened
After the woman’s initial argument with the nurse, the doctor later visited her room to check on her. In the video, the doctor could be heard telling her that pain medication needed to be requested and was not scheduled. “You ask your nurse for medications and she’ll bring them to you,” the doctor said.
The patient claims this contradicted what she had been told before. She complained to the doctor that she was already behind on her pain control and that the medication she had just received was not working yet, but the doctor told her to give it time.
After the doctor left, the nurse returned to “make sure there wasn’t any misunderstanding” between her and the patient. However, when the nurse tried to explain that she was only doing “what the orders say,” and that she wasn’t willing to put her “license on the line” like other nurses had done, the patient responded, “That’s why you’re a horrible nurse… You don’t care about helping people. Why would you put me in this much pain?”
The nurse replied, “I’m not putting you in pain,” before the patient asked her to leave the room.
‘They Have Medically Neglected Me’
Beyond the pain medication dispute, the patient also alleged that hospital staff attempted to discharge her one day after surgery, despite her condition worsening. She said she was barely urinating, not eating or drinking properly, and had abnormal lab results. “My white blood cells are even worse than they were before,” she said. “Before it was supposed to be 5, I was at 16, so now it’s higher than 16.”
She also claimed that staff delayed her medication after surgery because they believed her oxygen levels were low due to her past vaping habits, even though she said her oxygen dropped primarily when she was in pain and struggling to breathe. “They would not give me meds whenever I needed Dilaudid,” she said. “They have medically neglected me for this past [expletive] week.”
While the woman claimed in the caption of her videos that she was overdosed during her stay, she did not describe a specific incident where it happened or provide any additional details concerning that.
Netizens’ Reactions to the Idaho Woman’s Situation
On TikTok, the comments were divided on what to make of her situation. Some expressed outrage and sympathy, with one person writing, “Wow. This had my blood boiling… You shouldn’t have to beg for pain meds after a procedure.” Another commented, “You need to tell management or something and show this video. That is absolutely ridiculous.”
However, others felt that the nurse’s actions were in line with hospital policy. “The nurse speaking is 100% correct and 100% professional. You don’t have to like it,” one viewer said. “There’s nurses that follow policy and nurses that don’t. If the policy is that you have to ask for PRN pain meds then that’s the correct way of going about it,” another wrote.
