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 saw a Pain management Dr today. Not sure if anything will come of it or not. I have lost all faith in the medical world. I will try, but I don't have the energy to hope anymore. She is going to confer with head of the PM group to see if I am a candidate for a surgery. I don't really want to be cut open again - but I can't really keep on living like this either.
For the last two days my pain has been totally out of control. It will be fine one minute, and then the next thing I know my whole mind is overwhelmed with pain and my Service Dog is telling me I am not allowed to try to get up out of the chair. Today has been much the same. The morning was ok, but the physical effort put out to see the doctor killed me. I tried to just sleep though it, but I hurt too much to sleep.
I always get the weirdest looks from people who ask about my Service Dog. She is not old enough to help me walk. Her hips won't set until she is two or three years old so at nine months I don't dare use her for balance - though she has learned that leaning against my leg when we walk steadies me. Anyway, people ask what she does and I tell them that she monitors my stress and my pain.
It does not seem to make sense to most of the world that I can't tell when my pain is getting worse until it is so bad I am completely immobilized by it, gasping for air as the muscle spasms constrict my lungs.
I can't help but wonder... does anyone else have this problem? When your whole life is at least at a "6" on the pain scale, can you tell when it goes to 8 or 10?
Yadlim who can't sleep
Misha keeping watch next to my chair
For the last two days my pain has been totally out of control. It will be fine one minute, and then the next thing I know my whole mind is overwhelmed with pain and my Service Dog is telling me I am not allowed to try to get up out of the chair. Today has been much the same. The morning was ok, but the physical effort put out to see the doctor killed me. I tried to just sleep though it, but I hurt too much to sleep.
I always get the weirdest looks from people who ask about my Service Dog. She is not old enough to help me walk. Her hips won't set until she is two or three years old so at nine months I don't dare use her for balance - though she has learned that leaning against my leg when we walk steadies me. Anyway, people ask what she does and I tell them that she monitors my stress and my pain.
It does not seem to make sense to most of the world that I can't tell when my pain is getting worse until it is so bad I am completely immobilized by it, gasping for air as the muscle spasms constrict my lungs.
I can't help but wonder... does anyone else have this problem? When your whole life is at least at a "6" on the pain scale, can you tell when it goes to 8 or 10?
Yadlim who can't sleep
Misha keeping watch next to my chair
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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.....
For many years I was so accustom to ignoring my pain that it would slip up on me and slap me in the face. Suddenly I would be on the floor in tears unable to function.
A couple of people who were around me a lot started recognizing the symptoms, and would drag a chair over and tell me I was not doing well and I needed to sit down.
I think we fake being OK so much that it can be hard to realize just how high the pain has become. I did not realize a dog could sense that. I have a 9 lbs rescue dog that can sense when I need my pills and will start barking and growling until I get up and get my pills. I did not teach her, so I don't know what started her doing that. Funny.
Glad you have such an awesome dog.
Hugs-RJ
It's so special you have your service dog. Being that she is so young does she have a vest that says "service Dog in training?" I ask because I have seen others with their service dogs and they wear these. I'm sending up prayers for healing, comfort and peace of body mind & spirit. I hope your pain settles down enough so your able to get some sleep.
Hugs & God Bless
Lisa
My dad needs a service dog for his blindness. How much red tape is involved?
I hope you get some well needed relief soon.
Healing hugs
Hugs to misha
My daily pain level is a 5 if I can keep it there, then I can function for the most part throughout the day, drive, work, etc. Nights are worse when I get home and stop moving that's when everything seizes up, swells, stiffens and pain shoots up to an 8 or so.
Kat
but my pain is weird. Most people I talk to with chronic pain have a generalized throb of constant pain - mine is a sharp as a knife at all times. It feel like a chisel is being driven into my spine with blows that mimic my heart beat.
Misha, in the eyes of the law - which are the only ones that really matter - , is a full Service Dog and no longer "in training". She has her public manners (she just ignored the three "Service Dogs" dogs who tried to attack her at the VA hospital yesterday - I HATE when people pass of untrained animals for Service Animals!) and she has two tasks that she does - she monitors my pain and responds to my panic attacks. That I will continue to teach her things as she gets older just makes my life easier.
And actually - up until a couple years ago, you could have a Service Cat. I have known several. They make EXCELLENT alert animals and can even monitor dropping blood oxygen levels! But too many people abusing the system and there are now laws that say only dogs and miniature horses can be Service Animals.
A person can usually tell when their pain increases once it does increase..we don't get warnings :( So you're lucky in the way you have a warning device..just sad that you have to have any pain!
You know they even have walkers with the built in chair-so you could sit down immediately if needed?