PAIN MANAGEMENT ANSWERS?

[Hermes123]

Hermes123. Management! Just watch the video clips and I am left wondering if the Consultants really get the message or understand the management link between them selves and the patient and the message of management they are trying to get over. As an 81. year old suffering since 1969. laying on a board for three months and having to Waite till 1982. to get a very risky operation followed by three months in hospital of which six weeks on sight physiotherapy. Followed up by many visits to a G.P. Experimenting with drugs not certain of what ones reaction would be, hell in some cases having to go to work heavy manual task leading to more trapped nerves, then came the rack and a plethora of other crackpot ideas, as time went on more understanding developed but did I get relief short answer no, pain management talks on how too? did I go home fulfilled no, not enough retrieving not the programmes answers, but the individuals feeling at that time, but away from the physiotherapist and occupational therapist delving more into home and work lives, they are where positivity come from or not, how did I get through the day? by loading myself with as much work as possible there by overloading my brain as much as possible. Yes the pain was there and at the end of the working day I knew all about it. But exhaustion took over not long for asleep. I have seen many changes read loads of articles, books, C.D. and have they eased pain NO. I have now become a carer for my stroke victim wife, still suffering some times I think Consultants spend to much time studying the brain side of things and not enough work on damage areas. Hermes.

[antbeech1963]

Hi Hermes yes just like you for 20 years with pain getting worse by the year all i saw over the years was physio s i have had no dianosses until today i had my first appointment with a specialist only to tell me what i have read about . fibromyalgia i was in there 15 minutes for her to tell me i have fibromyalgia. but i been suffering just to tell me what i already know but i have had 4 operations in the last 4 years and they thought i could have nerve damage . but with pain pretty much everywhere . i had testicular cancer in 2011 and i stopped breathing on the operating table .the sent me to the sleep clinic and discover i had large polyps blocking my airways i had many test given a breathing machine . in between they made an appointment for a operation to remove the polyps. during the op they found a tumour under my right eye. the op for that took 6 hours as it had spread into my cheek bone the had to drill it out they told me i had 50/50 chance of going blind .luckley i have my eye site but my tear duct was damage and its more pain 2 operations more to correct the damage has not worked .but i am not worried about all that. its my pain its everywhere i dont have the strength to shave in the morning get up and down the stairs electric shocks all over the body the pain in my heels are the worse .my memory is getting bad so where is the help. what can be done to even get 1 good nights sleep.

[Hermes123 in reply to antbeech1963]

Hermes123

Hi antbeech1963. You certainly have been dealt a rough pack a cards my friend, I cannot find the words to describe what you must be going though. Myself its all my joints that have had there day ! Or so I am told I know in my heart of hearts I could be made more comfortable than what I am, but it's the same old tune your old and wearing out.

the pain resulting from Arthritis, Osteoarthritis and Fibromyalgia is of years off not getting to the route cores of the problem, instead off re routing these problems back to the brain it the pathway from the brain to the injury is blocked, no amount of electrical impulses can pass go. Do you ever watch Super Vet on T.V. now the way that vet evaluates an injury, then works out a solution is amazing, what I would give to be a dog in his hands. Hermes.