Originally Posted by Smoke_666

When I was first being treated for my sprained knee, misdiagnosed of course, I was sent off to PT to fix the ol' leg. Same as many here, I was told to work through the pain, 'it can't hurt that bad' (an actual quote). I told the PT therapist that it was making the pain worse, not just that day, but the next, and that the pain level was increasing gradually, and all I got was an incredulous look, and was generally accused of lying. 'You need to get off the pain killers, they aren't needed'.(another actual quote) Well, goody. I am so pleased you can read my mind. Eventually, seeing apparent bruising, swelling and me nearly screaming from the treatment, they informed me it wasn't working, must be something else wrong. Wow. Really??? Two years later, after a doctor who knew I wasn't lying but had no clue what was wrong sent me to a specialist, I was properly diagnosed. Moral of the story? It's your body, if you are in too much pain to deal, the heck with them, don't do it. No pain no gain is NOT something you should ever hear in PT. Slow and easy, gotta use it or lose it, but killing yourself to live is not the way to beat this sucker. Shame so many folks in the physical therapy field have gotten burned by scam artists aiming for drugs that people in real pain pay the penalty.

When I'm really tweaked at stupid people, I meditate...Ommm...Ommm...Ommm...gonna strangle these twits...Ommm...gonna break their legs...Ommm...gonna teach them what pain is all about...lol, j/k...