Pain clinic

[Sarahs23]

Good morning hope your are all feeling as well as you can be. I have a question, when you say pain clinic what do u mean? As when I mentioned this to my gp she just looked at me like I'm stupid and said no, I then mentioned it at my reumatology app and he said sending me for physio was part of the pIn clinic is that correct ? X

[jillylin]

Hi,

yes Physio is part of the Pain Clinic. I was first referred to physic by my rheumy. Then my phsio told me to ask my GP to refer me to PC which she did. I had an hour's appointment the Pain management Consultant who sent me to the clinical psychologist, another PC team member. After an hour's appointment with her, I was referred to the Foundation course in pain management which lasted three hours. Some of us were then offered a 12 week course on the Fibromyalgia Management course which was brilliant! I also had one to one CBT to help as well. I would ask your physic to see if maybe she can refer you if your GP doesn't.

Hope this helps.

Hugs

Jillyxx

[Hidden in reply to jillylin]

Hi jilly hows you today? hug sue

[jillylin in reply to Hidden]

Hello Petal. Heading into a flare up I think. Not fun.

Hugs

Jillyxx

[Hidden in reply to jillylin]

Sorry I missed your post yesterday. Just take it easy and hopefully you will be able to confuse the fibro monster enough to break of his attack. Lots of hugs sue

[jillylin in reply to Hidden]

Thanks. I wish I could work out what a some of my triggers are. Stress and over exercise , I know does it but it can't be all that.

How are you doing?

Hugs

Jillyxx

[TheAuthor]

Hi Sarah23

I sincerely hope that you are feeling as well as you possibly can be today? Most pain clinics have a physio section, but it then depends on the type of physio? I can imagine that many NHS regions and trusts do operate these things slightly different.

However, being referred to physio is not the same as being referred to a pain a management clinic. I was wondering if there was a different GP at your surgery that you could discuss the issue with? As I am sure the other GP would not have written your request down in their notes, and you may get a referral.

I sincerely hope that you can find some resolution and relief to your issues, and have some quality pain free time.

All my hopes and dreams for you

Ken x

[Mdaisy]

Hello Sarahs23,

You've had many comments with advice, so can I just provide you with a link to another post about Pain Clinics, which may be helpful;

healthunlocked.com/fibroact...

As some people have said consider going to another GP to ask for this referral

Sending best wishes

Emma

FibroAction Administrator

[freya19]

You are correct where physio is concerned. You normally go to the pain clinic to see the "Specialist" consultant, who assesses you and will then review your medication to see whether or not you get further/less medication. The specialist of pain gives you an appointment to see the "Specialist' Anea nurses who, assess you every 6 months or in my case once a year! You are then given appointments for the Specialist Physio, and you see them about every 6 months. They give you gentle exercises to do, but they tell you to stop if you find it too painful to do. After 3 visits to the consultant over 3 years, they tell you that your pain will not go away and they say that it's a case of going home and manage your pain, and sign you off back to your doctor. This is of course my personal version of what happened to me. Maybe someone else had a more positive experience of the pain clinic route!! Blessed Be X

[Hidden]

Hi there Sarah

I asked to be referred to see a pain consultant and was referred to see one it was the pain consultant who referred me for the pain management programme. The problem is that pain management isn't universal and each hospital has differing clinics etc with different ways of getting want you're in need of.

It may be an idea to research into where there are 'pain clinics' near you and then go back to your GP and ask again. Sometimes I feel like I'm supposed to use a special lingo or something for the doc to understand what I mean, I personally think it would be better to approach your GP knowledgeable of the services that could be available to you and then ask for referral but must say why you need it

I thought you may be interested in this article from fibroaction.org - Becoming an Expert Patient Article 3

Dealing with Doctors. I think there's lots of useful information regarding patient doctor relationship and also about how to find services etc.

fibroaction.org/Articles/Be...

Hope this is useful for you and wish you luck in your venture please would you let us know how you get on

xxxsianxxx

[Dorothy1952]

I attend pain clinic it is a clinic that specialise in pain management they altered my meds and booked me in for some steroid injections that will be done under exray

[Hidden]

Hi Sarah, in my experience no, you get pain management consultants who would work quite separately to physios, each will be experienced in caring/treating you in their own way.