[Carolina]

Originally Posted by FlyFishin Momma

Carolina hun........Your by far worse off then me....I am not even as bad as you and snoops....I feel for you both though.........

I fel like such a whimp for crabbing about the pain because I know I have great compared to so many.......

Oh Kay, don't be silly. Pain is subjective. What might be painful to one person might not be painful to you. I know there are plenty of people in more pain than I am but that does not take away from my misery. Your pain is affecting your quality of life. That cannot be compared to someone else.

I wasn't trying to "one up". I just wanted you to know that I can empathize.

Originally Posted by kebsa

.... i eventually went to a pain clinic and after several yrs of trying different options i eventually had an intrathecal medication pump surgically implanted ....

i still have bad days but every day used to be a bad day and i was close to suicide- chronic pain is no joke, it is a killer. ......I guess all i am trying to say is that there is usually some relief available for chronic pain, it may take much longer than we want to find the right answer....i would encourage anyone with chronic pain to seek referral to a pain management clinic

My doctor suggested the pump but he wants to try oral medication first. This suits me fine. I am beyond broke from all of the injections that I had last year.

You are right. Chronic pain is a killer. I fight every single day to find a reason to continue. This is why I recently switched pain management specialists.

For anyone who is considering going to one or who is currently seeing a PMS, if you continue to worsen, find someone else. Do not stick around for 4 years like I did.

Originally Posted by Erin524

.....and I actually fell over onto the bed. (thankfully I missed the knitting needles, that would not have been pretty)....some invisible person keeps stabbing me in the shoulders with a weird shooting pain....The Evil Insomnia Troll must have been here earlier and spiked my non-caffeine Diet Coke with some caffeine or something.....Oh, and the Insomnia Troll's cousin, the Vertigo Troll was here last night....