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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,871
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pain
My thoughts are because pain is objective. There is no test to rate pain or validate.
I do find if I take a pain diary sheet that diagrams the type of pain, burning, stabbing, tingling or numbness, and the outline of a body to place the markings to shoe where we hurt and the patterns, it makes Pain 101 to the doctor down to his level. More credibility to our complaints, and can produce a pattern of similar symptoms in similar patients to make it "Click".
IF there were a test or machine the doctor could hook up like an EMG and it gave a reading where the pain was, how high it was and the type of pain generator, he could understand that.
But, we are often humans with hidden disabilities and complaints, in an age some can ruin it by manifesting pain complaints to seek drugs, also a society that opiate therapy by most doctors is not an option.
I think the next step is to take body paint from the 70's and paint red, in pain generator spots, blue in poor circulation spots, black on the lines it travels and a big frown face on my butt side!
I will never forget Dr.Robert Schwartzman with psych interns sitting in an exam for a family member that SHOWED what pain is. By reproducing the symptoms (which are painful) he demonstrated how the pain generates and affects the person. That although many test show nothing it does not mean the pain is not there.
He even showed the left over Carpal Tunnel scars that the doctors had a positive EMG for Ct operated, found nothing, but pain was still there. HE noted the pain came from a compression higher then the carpal tunnel and how to find out how high and where the compressions are......
Those interns hopefully had something stick in and will never diagx or treat someone as with "Pain is in their head."
Dianne
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