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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: IL
Posts: 279
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: IL
Posts: 279
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Update Week #3
I'm not even sure I want to give this one more week. I am struggling to discover the difference between this program and your standard outpatient PT/OT.
PT seems to be of the belief that one should push through the pain during therapy. As I was struggling on one of the exercises she said "You aren't doing anything more than you do when you are walking around". My response: To be real, getting to/on the train, getting through the train station and getting to therapy is about as much walking as I do in a full day.
I struggle to do the exercises when I'm sitting at an 8. But...during the pain psych session we did biofeedback relaxation exercise and I did an amazing job. Funny....I was still in hella pain. Apparently I don't have enough positive thinking going on.
Doc has me on amitriptyline. Awesome. Good to know when my pain is pushed to a 9 or 10 from all this that I can take an amitriptyline to bring my pain level down. SMDH
Besides being an emotional week (my former father-in-law passed & was buried Wednesday, we had to put my dog down last night) I am feeling like there is no relief in sight through this program. I think I am going to change PCP's and see if I can get into the PM doc closer to home and get PT/OT closer to home as well.
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