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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,002
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,002
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Chronic pain is a separate injury!!!
Last Friday, 9/30/2011, the Dr. Oz show said they would do a highly critical show that:
DOCTORS ARE NOT TRAINED IN THE FACT THAT CHRONIC PAIN IS A SEPARATE INJURY!!!
I have tried to express this so many times - if you have a car accident, and your broken arm is fixed and no longer hurts, you only needed a short, perhaps "light" type of pain relief. BUT, if for some reason the car accident, (or workman's comp accident), caused you to have pain longer, and longer, and longer and in different parts of body, the CHRONIC PAIN is now it's own injury, compensable by LAW.
Many of us got neuro TOS, then we got RSD (the hot red skin on fire), then we got deep muscle pain all over our body - (that could be fibromyalgia, or an immune response, like myastonia gravis), the chronic pain model must be addressed.
It is my opinion that the body MUST receive enough pain relief, OR, the pain itself can cause suicide, and other problems mentally. And, if you give your body ENOUGH pain relief, for LONG enough, hopefully the pain meter will go down, and maybe in a few years you can actually go without pain meds everyday, and use other modes of health. (Swim, chiros or phys. experts who know how to gently take the pain away, etc.)
So this is my new soap box - and I am thankful that Dr. Oz recognizes that addiction is NOT the same as physical reliance - that you might build a tolerance to a med and have to switch out to another, etc. Over the years, my base pain med has been switched out (not raised necessarily) at least 6 times. And it's necessary because the pain pathways grow accustomed to the med, so we start a new one, even on a much lower dose, and because it's new, my brain gets a great pain relief from "tricking" the nerves.
The injury has been a hard battle - I think I've seen 60 doctors, and only 4 have understood pain relief. It's not psychosomatic. The depression came AFTER the illness - not before. I am not in it for money - everyone knows I made a LOT of money at the point of injury. So that leaves THE TRUTH.
God bless you.
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