The movie's a good watch....it's just not the most realistic. I definitely wouldn't go into it thinking, "great, finally a real movie about Chronic Pain".

I, personally didn't find any of it triggering, more, "how much do they think they could cram into 1 person" and "if she's supposed to be so bad how/why can she do "X".

It's worth watching just to see how they portrayed the situation.

You know what would be great?
If someone who had the means to do a REAL chronic pain movie came upon this site and asked all of us to tell our stories.
Now, That would be a REAL movie about chronic pain.
What we deal with on a daily basis would kill some people out there. Dr's dont really get it.
We may or may not have cancer pain. Nobody can tell you how bad you are hurting. Nobody, even these Dr's who think they can tell the size dose you need depending on what you have wrong with you. I have never had Cancer ( thank god ) but how do they know my pain doesnt get as bad as a Cancer patients is?

Someone out there. Please write a book or make a movie about what its really like to be us.
Thank you for all your comments.
I hope you all have a great weekend.

hi V I have not seen it. but Arthritis Victoria ( Australia ) had it on as a fundraise ages ago,. I wish I had gone. but I will see it when it comes to cable tv or dvd.

but a movie I do love, is love and other drugs. the girl has PD.

Jeremy .. you have my empathy .. hugs to you.
I have no problems with doctors not believing me.

I just had a look at your diagnoses. you had DVT. I assume that has gone? but diabetes is a sure way of getting.. nerve pain in your leg. suggest; Lyrica., tell me more about yourself.

did they look at your lower lumbar,
does physiothereapy help you ?
are you able to work ?
Sunny In freezing cold Melbourne .. not Sunny haha

Sunny wow you can be spot on. Jeremy a good point Sunny makes.

The movie you mention Love and Other Drugs I saw and a good romance. Also of someone fighting a disease with no known cure
I believe.

That your organization Arthritis Victoria used the movie as a fundraiser gives a bit of credibility to pain I would say.

Vicki I am glad you started this discussion. It gives a balance to the chronic pain board for those on here to discuss their feelings about something. I agree with you on the reality show of what pain patients live with daily. It has been discussed here before.

Kat you have 23 years behind you fighting some serious pain and are fortunate to have very best medical care. You live near one of the best University Medical Schools. On this board are most who don't . We all try together to help one another. No one is perfect but we try and we don't demean and challenge. Allowing a voice to be heard is polite. Calling people out is rude. I didn't report you but next time you call someone out on a thread I am going to. You OldCper are being rude.

hippy

"Bump"

@ sun my condition is post thrombotic syndrome. It happens to the leg many months or years after a DVT. Not everyone gets PTS, but it causes swelling, discoloration, pain, and a significant reduction in quality of life. You have to go and read about it. The DVT is just an acute event that many people recover from after 6 months or a year. I have not fully recovered. That is what's causing my pain. I have left over calcified pieces of blood clots that have adhered to my deep veins and pulled them closed. This has significantly narrowed the openings of some of y deep veins which causes significant pain for me as well as mobility issues.

Vicki through this one post Superstar and I have became friends.
We have shared many PM. I hope someday she will find this board a place to share her story. It is a courageous one.

During our discussions books came up. That has sent me on a look for for fiction on chronic pain. I have a number at this time I am sampling. Also in research I found a writers group who is looking for input from true chronic pain patients to help them mold their main character. Such a wealth of information even a blog Dancing With Pain.

hippy

I watched the movie awhile back. Jennifer Anniston played her 'Character' extremely well. PTSD with CP.
It triggered me. I saw myself in so much of her struggle.
However, I too, am fortunate to have extremely supportive Doctors. To have to Doctor shop for pain relief would be so demeaning to the already tortured souls who truely need medication. Her addiction threw off the true message of her Chronic Pain, in my opinion. Her pertrayal of her CP and PTSD was brilliant. The Housekeeper was her own Angel be it enabler for the empathy she felt. The decision to keep living each day while enduring emotional and physical Torchure is a reality for many. My own family cried for what they saw as similarities. Documentary films need to be made. My Pain management Doctor has said to me, as hashis Partner when I have tried Ketimine infusions, that I'm being treated for pain as they would a Cancer Patient. My heart breaks for anyone in pain. I would never question on any given day anyone's ability to do anything. If they are fortunate enough for their Pain management to enable them to live a little, surely this is true pain management? Bless them and their Doctors.
With hundreds of hours of counselling, physio, etc. I'm still here. One day at a time. But I've faced the darkness as she did in the Pool..... Very real stuff. Yes, it could have focused more on CP. But, hey, it's a Beginning....

Just tried to watch it; hated it.
It's not realistic.
Hope it doesn't make life worse for people who need narcotic pain relief.

Aw, crap...this is what I was afraid of regarding the ultimate take home message of the movie being that of prescription pain medication, abuse, dependency, addiction, etc. rather than what I'm sure we all wished -- to give insight and a true depiction of the physical, emotional, and mental hardships and struggles that we, as chronic painers, know to be reality.

Chickentikka, did you catch my brief mention of concern over this in response to one of your earlier posts where you were discussing watching this movie on your big TV using your RedBox rental instead of the $16 rental?

When I originally heard about Jennifer Aniston playing the role of a woman sharing her struggle of living with daily chronic pain, I was probably weirdly excited about it for the sheer fact that I knew millions and millions of people were most likely going to see this big blockbuster movie and through that, this could be the beginning of society as we know it becoming more educated, tolerant, understand, and compassionate of our situation. Really hoping that this could be just the beginning of of a societal shift regarding the stigma attached to those of us that live with this invisible disability. It sounds dramatic, but it felt like a punch in the stomach when I learned the full overall content of Cake -- prescription drugs and all. It almost gave me anxiety at the thought of watching it...it just feels so personal for some reason...like "oh my gosh, will everyone that watches this movie assume that we are all living our lives like she is in Cake?" ..... "Will the drug part of the movie just completely overshadow any of the realistic parts of the chronic pain struggle and just leave viewers with an even greater negative stigma in mind?" SH*TTY SH*T SH*T SH*T (excuse me...I'm just beyond disappointed).

Super duper...