Re: Chronic Pain Management web sites...Excellent sites!!

From: Kathy L. (kjlu9857@velocity.net)
Sat Nov 11 11:04:23 2000


If you don't mind my asking, what are the symptoms of your pain. Is it related to surgery or something else?

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kathy l.

At Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Maryann King wrote: > >Hello, My name is Maryann I read the number 2 topic. I have been >suffering from something for 5 years now. I have been in severe,severe >pain. It is unknown to this day what it is. The pain has litterally >taken a major toll on my life and my families lives. I have been very >depressed for a long time due to this horrible,horendous,pain. I am >completely aware of the fact that it is not life threating due to the >fact nothing shows up and it has been 5 years. I would have been gone a >long time ago if it was.I feel I am at a major loss in my life because >of this wrenching pain. I am 27 years old and have 3 small children, >this pain I have has made it extremly difficult to be the mother I want >to be. Five years ago I was put on klonopin.It is a nerve pill. I was >on it for 3 years. I was also on an anti-depressent. For about a years >time I felt good for the most part. I was so scared of the pain coming >back that during that years time I became pregnant and stayed on the >klonopin.Thank God my daughter is healthy for the most part. It seemed >like after the first year the klonopin started to not do much so I >started to take more and more for my pain,until I took to many and was >taken to the hospital were they told me I could not take it anymore. I >thought at that moment my life was over. They sent me home with 5 >morphine patches. In the past 5 years I have not been able to take any >pain killers by mouth because it would set me into a fit of my pain. The >morpine patches made me so sick. I stopped them. I had went to see a >pain managment specialist and to no avail he seemed to be the judge of >my pain and said I do not need anything but and anti-deppresant in which >at this time I was already on one.Not even 2 days after I stopped my >klonopin I suffered very bad withdrawals. I had become addicted. I >knew at that moment I could never take another nerve pill in my life and >I would have to live in this hellish pain forever. I went 6 months with >nothing, I even had surgery and nothing for my pain afterwards. After 6 >months the pain was the same but I grew extremly tired of dealing with >it. I took it upon myself to have my doctor prescribe me a different >kind of nerve pill. Ativan. Lets just say I am too addicted to >continue on them. I have had nothing but a hard time with them. I have >not had one in over a weeks time and for me that is great. My >withdrawals this time are not so bad. I suppose at what I am getting at >is do you know if there is any help. I am trying herbs and supplements. >So far little relief. I know I am an addict to these mind altering >drugs. It happend because of my pain. I have never stole from anyone, >or have never been arrested for anything. I am trying to get it into my >head that it is not my fault. If I am one of those people that needs >medication for relief so I can try to live a productive life, how and in >what way can it be done so I don't become too addicted to something >else. I would greatly appreciate any reply to this terribly long >letter. >Thank You >Maryann t Wed, 08 Nov 2000, car45@impop.bellatlantic.net wrote: >> >>1.) American Society for Pain Relief, Research and Education Net ( >>ASPRREN )...CENTERS >>OF EXCELLENCE FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT >> >>http://pains.net/ASPRREN.htm >> >>~ ~ ~ ~ >> >>2.) The A.S.A.P Panic Page! For Intractable Pain Patients...For Pain >>Patients who know you >>need opiod or "narcotic" pain medication to control your suffering, and >>things to do to get it. It's >>the " ASAP Pain Course " for YOU. >> >>http://www.widomaker.com/~skipb/panic.html >> >>~ ~ ~ ~ >> >>3.) National Institute on Drug Abuse on Addiction versus Dependence" >> >>http://www.widomaker.com/~skipb/Scheme.html >> >>~ ~ ~ ~ >> >>4.) American Society for Action on Pain ( ASAP )...Be sure to read this >>entire article as well as >>all of the links, which are listed throughout this article. >> >>http://www.widomaker.com/~skipb/skiphome.htm.html


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