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Old 04-08-2009, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Jennelle View Post
My case manager wants me to enter into a pain management program that is an hour away from my home (a drive i can't do myself). It would include a physiatrist, psychologist, anathesologist, ot, pt, and vocational person.... anyone done one of these before? Is it worth leaving my family and having to live there for 4 weeks? I want to cry thinking about leaving home and having to be poked at even more than before.... plus I just talked to the program administrator and he was flabbergasted that my doctor has me on morphine for the pain....should I not be? What do you all take???? Please contact me personally or add on if you have any answers!
Hello Jennelle,

After reading this post and your other one I can tell you aren't having a good day. When you don't feel well the last thing you need is more stress.When you refer to case manager is this a WC manager? I'm not familiar with WC. You might ask what happens if you say no to this program? Will it stop your benefits? I can tell you at one time or another I have had all of the providers you mentioned on my pain management team. It took us a while to determine what works for me. We have come up with a plan that keeps my pain under control.The same treatments don't work for everyone. No two people have the same nervous system. That's why RSD/CRPS is so difficult to treat. I read a book Living with RSD. There was a brief description on how they came up with the name. There is so much negative history attached to RSD a group of medical professionals got together and changed the name to CRPS. The new name leaves no doubt about what our doctors are facing it is COMPLEX. It was when it was known only as RSD and it still is as CRPS. They couldn't find a treament for it so they changed the name.
I know it would be hard to leave your family. If the four weeks you spend working on a treatment plan works it will be worth it in the long run.
Someone on this forum has a slogan laugh more than you cry. Please, try and do that the best medicine is laughter.
Hang in there and may God bless you soon!
Take care,
Sherrie

Last edited by Curious; 04-08-2009 at 09:56 PM. Reason: fixed broken tag in quote :)
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