http://painreliefnetwork.org/legal-talent-to-share.php/ Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:39:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://painreliefnetwork.org/legal-talent-to-share.php/comment-page-1/#comment-166 chronicbackpain Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:25:55 +0000 http://painreliefnetwork.org/?p=1244#comment-166 Today I just can't take it anymore. I woke up crying my eyes out and couldn't walk at all. I don't know if it's the bed or the injury or both. Probably both. I feel like such a loser, such an invalid because my fiance whom I LOVE more than life has to be subject to it all and watch me suffer so much. I don't look like a 35 year old bride to be, let alone a normal 35 year old at all. It's so frustrating and confusing that this has gone on over 11 years now and I can't even function on a daily basis unless medicated, but I just don't care anymore, I need help and I need to be out of pain. No one should go through this ever. I don't want to lose the love of my life because he can't handle the stress and the complaining and I try my best not to but the pain is UNREAL. I try and stretch, I try and do some light yoga but to no avail. It's only when I am medicated that I can move like a normal human being and that sucks, but it's the reality of the situation. What's worse is I feel like any doctor who prescribes me medicine eventually thinks I am a drug addict because of all the media and all the young kids abusing medications, the ones I take and ruining people like me living a normal life until they can resolve their injuries. On top of being in all this pain and having to drive myself to the doctors office when I can barely even walk or move, I am accused of being a drug addict? Having to go through urine tests like a drug addict I understand because once again the kids abusing prescription drugs and the doctors being afraid of losing their licenses. THAT I understand, but I have fought for years to get disability and got all the years worth of benefits that I SHOULD'VE received for all those years and now get them regularly. I am seen as having a TBI and an injured back. This isn't just some kid trying to get drugs. I am a grown woman of 35 years old and I cannot function day to day because of the severe pain that I am in. I need to be able to live and drive to doctors appointments so I can figure out what's wrong with me and get it fixed. I cannot stress enough how hard this is if I am in pain. So what do I do? Everything seems like a catch 22. I have lived in pain since 1997 and for years without any help. For years lying on a couch unable to move in tears. This isn't a way anyone should live is it? I wonder about the doctors that treated me so badly in the past and what their lives must be like when they go home. Do they get a good nights rest? Do they wake up in the morning crying because they can't move. BEcause if they did get a good nights sleep they may not be in as much pain. But it's like this....PAIN=CAN'T SLEEP=PAIN=CAN'T SLEEP and on and on. So when I come into your doctors office, and my eyes are all blood shot and I have dark circles under my eyes and I can barely make sentences, are you going to think I'm a drug addict? Or are you a good enough doctor to see that I actually need help? Can you go home and sleep knowing that if you were in a car accident and needed pain relief that your doctor would take one look at you and accuse you of being a drug addict and send you home with a smile on their face while you know what awaits you tonight? Tomorrow? PAIN, CRYING, INCAPACITATED??? I don't think you could or should be able to sleep. I don't. Today I just can’t take it anymore. I woke up crying my eyes out and couldn’t walk at all. I don’t know if it’s the bed or the injury or both. Probably both. I feel like such a loser, such an invalid because my fiance whom I LOVE more than life has to be subject to it all and watch me suffer so much. I don’t look like a 35 year old bride to be, let alone a normal 35 year old at all.
It’s so frustrating and confusing that this has gone on over 11 years now and I can’t even function on a daily basis unless medicated, but I just don’t care anymore, I need help and I need to be out of pain. No one should go through this ever. I don’t want to lose the love of my life because he can’t handle the stress and the complaining and I try my best not to but the pain is UNREAL.
I try and stretch, I try and do some light yoga but to no avail. It’s only when I am medicated that I can move like a normal human being and that sucks, but it’s the reality of the situation. What’s worse is I feel like any doctor who prescribes me medicine eventually thinks I am a drug addict because of all the media and all the young kids abusing medications, the ones I take and ruining people like me living a normal life until they can resolve their injuries. On top of being in all this pain and having to drive myself to the doctors office when I can barely even walk or move, I am accused of being a drug addict? Having to go through urine tests like a drug addict I understand because once again the kids abusing prescription drugs and the doctors being afraid of losing their licenses. THAT I understand, but I have fought for years to get disability and got all the years worth of benefits that I SHOULD’VE received for all those years and now get them regularly. I am seen as having a TBI and an injured back. This isn’t just some kid trying to get drugs. I am a grown woman of 35 years old and I cannot function day to day because of the severe pain that I am in. I need to be able to live and drive to doctors appointments so I can figure out what’s wrong with me and get it fixed. I cannot stress enough how hard this is if I am in pain. So what do I do? Everything seems like a catch 22. I have lived in pain since 1997 and for years without any help. For years lying on a couch unable to move in tears. This isn’t a way anyone should live is it? I wonder about the doctors that treated me so badly in the past and what their lives must be like when they go home. Do they get a good nights rest? Do they wake up in the morning crying because they can’t move. BEcause if they did get a good nights sleep they may not be in as much pain. But it’s like this….PAIN=CAN’T SLEEP=PAIN=CAN’T SLEEP and on and on. So when I come into your doctors office, and my eyes are all blood shot and I have dark circles under my eyes and I can barely make sentences, are you going to think I’m a drug addict? Or are you a good enough doctor to see that I actually need help? Can you go home and sleep knowing that if you were in a car accident and needed pain relief that your doctor would take one look at you and accuse you of being a drug addict and send you home with a smile on their face while you know what awaits you tonight? Tomorrow? PAIN, CRYING, INCAPACITATED??? I don’t think you could or should be able to sleep. I don’t.

]]> http://painreliefnetwork.org/legal-talent-to-share.php/comment-page-1/#comment-133 jlwalth Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:01:21 +0000 http://painreliefnetwork.org/?p=1244#comment-133 I find it amusing that of all doctors you have chosen to help fight your fight, you have somehow selected Dr. Merle Janes. I am quite familiar with the doctor as I was a patient of his a few years back. He was the first doctor to introduce me to the drug Oxycontin. At that time.....he was extremely conservative with prescribing ANY pain meds. He counted your prescription out to the day and would only release a new prescription to you on the exact day you were to have a new prescription. He was also big on pushing his trigger injections and that for me did absolutely nothing but make me ill. And now I read that he is an advocate for pain sufferers?!?!?! Hmmmmm......very interesting!!!!! I find it amusing that of all doctors you have chosen to help fight your fight, you have somehow selected Dr. Merle Janes. I am quite familiar with the doctor as I was a patient of his a few years back. He was the first doctor to introduce me to the drug Oxycontin. At that time…..he was extremely conservative with prescribing ANY pain meds. He counted your prescription out to the day and would only release a new prescription to you on the exact day you were to have a new prescription. He was also big on pushing his trigger injections and that for me did absolutely nothing but make me ill. And now I read that he is an advocate for pain sufferers?!?!?! Hmmmmm……very interesting!!!!!

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