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Living with chronic pain
Detoxing from Pain Medication
- By KateG · New reply yesterday at 11:09 am
- 19 replies
- I live with chronic pain and, daily, I take percoset and zanaflex. I hate the way they make me feel. Does anyone know how to detox from pain meds safely? I've been taking them approximately two and a ...
Dercums flair again
- By jhewels2 · Posted November 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- I am having a bad flair which I hope will leave my body soon if not I am going to have to wait several weeks to have the painful lipomas removed. I used to think it was my ovary but I soon realized that ...
painful days
- By jhewels2 · New reply November 22, 2009
- 2 replies
- I have had one of those weeks where I have had pain and pressure. it has been so long since Iv'e had pelvic pain that I don't know if it is from my bladder, adhesions, bowels or all three. but I am glad ...
Medical canabas us, does it work?
- By tmichaelroche · New reply November 22, 2009
- 6 replies
- Has anyone had success using canabas for chronic pain (nerve pain) traditional meds do not work for me? If so, what has been your experience ...
I am deflated and depressed
- By deebelle · New reply November 20, 2009
- 1 reply
- I scheduled December 17 for total hip replacement but daughter does not like it and refuses to help because its bad timing. Note that she was there for my back surgery in July. In October I also was considering ...
Looking for Friends in Spokane Wa
- By Anne33 · Posted November 16, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi I am new to this. I am looking for people to talk to and to get together with in or around Spokane Wa ...
How to afford my meds
- By AlpineLakes · New reply November 9, 2009
- 1 reply
- I am new here and do not have insurance. I am desperate to find ways of affording my medicine. Is anyone uninsured here? Any ideas ...
Nightmares due to (caused by) pain
- By tmichaelroche · New reply November 7, 2009
- 2 replies
- Has anyone dealt with nightmares? My Neurologist informed me that the nightmares are caused by chronic pain. Has anyone been told this by by a medical professional ...
30 years of living with pain
- By Shoshonegirl · New reply November 5, 2009
- 2 replies
- I have been in pain for at least 30 years. It is like I don't know what it is like to wake up and it not be there. I have learned to live with it for the most part. I have so many things wrong with me ...
What do you do when evey your physical therapist gives up on you?
- By JonBeach · New reply October 22, 2009
- 5 replies
- So a week ago I had showed up to physical therapy and had a complete break down while talking to the physical therapy assistant. Had to cut the session short. I am not one to cry, never have been, was ...
I have A Major Pain Management question if anyone could help me I have two
- By avarina · New reply October 16, 2009
- 6 replies
- I have broken my elbow several years ago and have had 4 operations that cannot fix the issue so all they can do now is pain management, as well as fibromyalgia, PTSD, Depression issues. For the last 4 ...
Pain and Pain Management options
- By dkolo · New reply October 8, 2009
- 7 replies
- Why do 30 million people put up with pain and PAIN MANAGEMENT? Why do WE have to live with it??? I'd like to hear from some people who have had the neuro stimulator put in in their back and also from ...
what is pain management
- By MaryKarnes · New reply September 29, 2009
- 3 replies
- my sacrum still has not healed ...
Undiagnosed abdominal pain
- By Jessicajoyus · New reply September 29, 2009
- 4 replies
- My dad is so sick. We've been doctor to doctor trying to figure this out. Starts with hiccups, then chills, then the pain comes. Upper abdominal area terrible pain. We have done every test imaginable ...
I Cannot Deal with my pain anymore
- By anonymousgirl · New reply September 20, 2009
- 1 reply
- I am on Disability for my health problems that are Rheumiatoid Arthiritis and Poly Arthiritis,my feet a so badly deformed now i can hardly walk,my right hand has numbulas all around the top thumb and ...
Thanks
- By PaulClarke · Posted August 3, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi Guys, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you guys who have offered me advice and support to date. Unfortunately, a situation has arisen whereby a support forum I have set up for pituitary ...
living with so much pain you just want to end it all
- By edgegarner · New reply July 8, 2009
- 18 replies
- I am a 43 year old male and have been living with chronic pain for the last several years. It started with with a botched shoulder surgery where a pin was put in to stabilize my shoulder, but the pin ...
constant jaw/head/face pain
- By melisue · New reply June 24, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hi! I joined this pain and pain management group because I was looking for a TMJ group and couldn't find anything recent. Does anyone here have experience with tmj? I have been in pretty much constant ...
No more cat
- By deebelle · Posted June 23, 2009
- 0 replies
- Just wanted you all to know its still me.....the real me and my beautiful granddaughter.......for so long my cute cat has been my profile pic but I finally got one of me....Oh YEAH!!!!!! Its a beautiful ...
The Body Broken, by Lynne Greenberg
- By Js_Mommy · New reply May 25, 2009
- 1 reply
- Has anyone read the recent memoir The Body Broken, by Lynne Greenberg? She is in an accident in college and has a broken neck, which does not paralyze her. For almost 20 years she is fine until she begins ...
