Chronic Pain Support Group
Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that is a direct result of injury or trauma. This support group is dedicated to those suffering from chronic pain. Discuss treatments that have worked for you, find advice for your specific experience, and find support. You're not...
I am frustrated. I have been fighting chronic pain as long as I can remember. For the past 5 years I have been going to doctors, PT and OT which hasn't helped a whole lot. I am being to think that I should never have started trying to lower the pain, but I was having trouble work. All I was looking for some relief from the pain so that I can sleep through the night, but it hasn't done that yet. Now I am unable to concentrate which has gotten to ware I am losing my job. I am unable to keep up with my paper work. That is lead to me being on remediation and add more paper work. Don't understand how adding more paper work is going to help me. I just allows them to fire me. I should never have gone to doctors who have given me hope that they can lower my pain. Because all that it did for me was to have me take a lot of sick days which lead to me fallen behind. Right now all I want is a day with no or little pain!
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I invited Bill to have dinner with me last Sunday. He wasn't willing to drive 7 hours to mid Michigan and teased me with his beautiful ribs!!! So, of course I ate alone and had cedar salmon
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
Sorry you are having such a tough time.
Yes, the medical profession is pretty useless where CP is concerned.
Do you have any vacation time you can take, even a couple of days?
I know the TMJ has its own set of painful issues to deal with.
If you don't think your current Dr. is getting you the pain relief you need, have you considered getting a different Dr.? IC is not a condition that gets much relief from narcotic meds. But it the other meds are given in the right dose and combination they should give you relief from the symptoms.
And it can be very frustrating at times, treating Chronic Pain isn't an exact science unfortunately, much of the time there's a lot of trial and error until the right "fix" is found and the pain is alleviated for periods of time.
As for your job, if your Dr. lists your illness as disabling or debilitating, and your doing your job according to your Job Description, you may have protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act. You'd have to look it up and see where you fall in the classifications.
Working with pain is really difficult.. Are you able to take small
Doses of pain meds during the day?