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Misc The Pain Management Mega Thread version 3.0

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I can't stand to be in the same room as the show House. When you're 20, walk with a cane, know about drugs (want to go into R&D), and take opioids...you get that nickname a lot and it's so fucking annoying...
 
Jktm said:
I can't stand to be in the same room as the show House. When you're 20, walk with a cane, know about drugs (want to go into R&D), and take opioids...you get that nickname a lot and it's so fucking annoying...
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You watch a show like that and you come to understand how the majority of people, even in the medical field, haven't a clue what it is like to live in chronic pain. I was discriminated right out the door of a hospital that I worked in for 14 years. It was because my doctor didn't have the gonads to write me an 'extended leave of absence'. He felt I could work if I was on light duty. Light duty was implausible where I worked.

I would look in the eyes of my fellow employees as they would take my specimens to different benches while I sat in my "ergonomic chair". I would finish a shift and have to call a taxi to take my ass home because I couldn't walk to my car. I could barely walk out of the lab. The cab driver would never put it in his notes that he had to help me into my house. They don't make money for doing favors like that.

If anyone is currently. or ever finds themselves in a situation like that, do not allow your pride to take over. Don't start walking about because of pride. HR doesn't give a shit about pride. HR only cares if you meet your FTE.

Many of you are so young and when I read your statements in this thread I cherish the days when I was young. I took my good health for granted and now I know how cruel and merciless the able bodied can be when you are no longer among them.

Many of you are starting where I did 7 years ago and fumbling around trying to find out how the system works. In some cases, it does work you simply have to know your way around the blockades that appear without warning. It is a job in itself being a CPP.

When I worked, my attendance records were perfect before the pain. Never missed a day and had tons of sick leave hours that were eaten up in a matter of months once the pain became too much. I now volunteer at hospitals, helping when I can because they are afraid to hire me or give me any FTE (expected work hours).

JK- I hope no one refers to you as "House" That show is merely a medical challenge for me but it is completely ludicrous when one looks at the show from a realistic standpoint.

The guy goes off to a loony bin because he is hallucinating from taking too much Vicodin? Be real!

He starts taking methadone and everyone working with him thinks he is insane for taking fucking methadone? The show is in the toilet now but we still have to deal with tons of syndication and people that think 'that is what it is like to be in chronic pain?'

I simply watch it out of curiosity and wait for them to fuck up a diagnosis.
 
By the way-

Where have the Mods been for 10 days? Letting us fly free and fancy free?
 
I haven't seen anything in need of moderation, thus far.

I'm sure they pop in to read, but they most likely won't post unless they're a pain patient as well...
 
milagro said:
You watch a show like that and you come to understand how the majority of people, even in the medical field, haven't a clue what it is like to live in chronic pain. I was discriminated right out the door of a hospital that I worked in for 14 years. It was because my doctor didn't have the gonads to write me an 'extended leave of absence'. He felt I could work if I was on light duty. Light duty was implausible where I worked.

I would look in the eyes of my fellow employees as they would take my specimens to different benches while I sat in my "ergonomic chair". I would finish a shift and have to call a taxi to take my ass home because I couldn't walk to my car. I could barely walk out of the lab. The cab driver would never put it in his notes that he had to help me into my house. They don't make money for doing favors like that.

If anyone is currently. or ever finds themselves in a situation like that, do not allow your pride to take over. Don't start walking about because of pride. HR doesn't give a shit about pride. HR only cares if you meet your FTE.

Many of you are so young and when I read your statements in this thread I cherish the days when I was young. I took my good health for granted and now I know how cruel and merciless the able bodied can be when you are no longer among them.

Many of you are starting where I did 7 years ago and fumbling around trying to find out how the system works. In some cases, it does work you simply have to know your way around the blockades that appear without warning. It is a job in itself being a CPP.

When I worked, my attendance records were perfect before the pain. Never missed a day and had tons of sick leave hours that were eaten up in a matter of months once the pain became too much. I now volunteer at hospitals, helping when I can because they are afraid to hire me or give me any FTE (expected work hours).

JK- I hope no one refers to you as "House" That show is merely a medical challenge for me but it is completely ludicrous when one looks at the show from a realistic standpoint.

The guy goes off to a loony bin because he is hallucinating from taking too much Vicodin? Be real!

He starts taking methadone and everyone working with him thinks he is insane for taking fucking methadone? The show is in the toilet now but we still have to deal with tons of syndication and people that think 'that is what it is like to be in chronic pain?'

I simply watch it out of curiosity and wait for them to fuck up a diagnosis.
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Very moving and well said. I watched the same thing happen to my Mother when she became ill, she also worked in a hospital lab.
I was older when I became sick, and now, trying to go out and try to find a job(after 5 years) that can fit my life is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Nobody wants to hire someone as sick as I am, but I can't get disability either.
 
Jktm said:
I haven't seen anything in need of moderation, thus far.

I'm sure they pop in to read, but they most likely won't post unless they're a pain patient as well...
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GATDAM LURKERS! ;)

J/K µvolution...how've you been? long time, no speak...

Also, you use those lidoderm patches right?

I found a couple the other day in the bathroom and used them (I only had a couple, so they're gone), but they worked pretty well. An issue I had with them was getting them to stay put ( I was using them kinda crossing my waist at the small of my back and tried using medical tape, but it ended up bunching up a lot. Any way to fix that in the chance that I might be able to convince a doctor to script me some?
 
According to several of them they are CPP's. That is why I ask why they are lingering with this discussion. Zoe? Tri?
 
Yeah, those lidoderm patches are amazing. Just take a shower right before applying them. Also, it helps to wear form-fitting clothes, or a tight undershirt or something so your clothes aren't always rubbing over it. Alot of times I throw an ace bandage over them, I'm sure that would work around your waist as well.

Yes, I am a CPP. I lurk and throw in advice when needed. My pain is almost completely controlled, so I don't have much to discuss per se.
I am looking at a electrostim spinal implant, but am kinda waiting for them to get smaller.
 
WyldOrchid5150 said:
Very moving and well said. I watched the same thing happen to my Mother when she became ill, she also worked in a hospital lab.
I was older when I became sick, and now, trying to go out and try to find a job(after 5 years) that can fit my life is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Nobody wants to hire someone as sick as I am, but I can't get disability either.
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Yes, finding a job is hard for individuals that can't lift 20 lbls above their head, pass a credit report and drug test, for a position that pays 14 dollars an hour.

BTW-lidoderm-diclofenac patches are useless with the source of pain being any deeper than a depth of 4cm. Then again, wtf do I know?
 
Well I don't have CRPS/RSD (I don't think) and I don't have post-herpatic neuralgia...and ya...I wear t-shirts and PJs normally lol...might as well cling to the few comforts I have...I'm just ready for that damn PM clinic to call me so I can get an appt. The last bitches wouldn't treat me because of my "suicide attempt."
 
They seemed to help me with the stenosis...a little bit at least...
 
i hate being in pain all the time it makes my depression way worse i really see no other way out than the pill train last stop cemetery
 
muvolution said:
I am a CPP. I lurk and throw in advice when needed. My pain is almost completely controlled, so I don't have much to discuss per se.
I am looking at a electrostim spinal implant, but am kinda waiting for them to get smaller.
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A "tens' unit? Is your pain only neuropathic?
 
No, it isn't a tens unit. they implant it into you, idk. It's like a permanent lumbar block with electricity instead of drugs. My pain is mostly neuropathic. I have alot of secondary trauma. The lidoderm helps with alot of the crps symptoms, and other symptoms too. It is only lidocaine, no diclofenac.
 
If you don't know what it is called and they are going to implant the thing into your body I would suggest you understand just what "it" is. Sounds like a tens to me. And the "idk" is kind of indicative of-----. Sorry, Flector patches have diclofenac in them not Lidoderm I have used both to no avail.
 
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I got refused the spinal cord simulator as id need it placed in my neck and that is too dangerous according to the specialit i saw. I think that is what mov meant by electro stimulator
 
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