CLORA---pain meds.

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Hi Clora: For the life of me I can not understand your Rheumy not

giving you pain meds. We do not need to suffer needlessly. Every dr.

knows that pain is wearing on us, and people can not function properly

with pain. Have you spoken to your PCP about your Rheumy's failure to

help you get out of pain?

I know it is hard for you to speak up, but you can't live or have any

kind of life when you are hurting so badly. You have been through so

much in the time I have known you. Your body is so sensitive to to so

many meds. causing you to have so many allergies. It must be scarey for

you to even try anything new.

Our Rheumy's owe it to us to try and help us to live a good life as best

we can. Not giving you the pain meds. you need to feel comfortable, is

just plain cruel. She evidently has no compassion for what her patients

are going through, and could care less about them or the pain they are

trying to deal with. Pain makes me crazy. RA is a very ugly beast of a

disease. If she doesn't know this, then she should not be a Rheumy. It

is needless for you to suffer so much. I feel terrible about all your

pain and suffering.

All the surgeries I have had the last 6 years, the one thing that my

doctors stressed was, " take your pain meds. every 4 hours, and stay

ahead of the pain once you get it under control " . Even the P.T.

specialist told me, " we will do your therapy about 1/2 hour after you

take your pain meds. " They do this because you could not move your body

otherwise. With this last knee replacement, for some reason, they

could not get me out of pain, no matter what they gave me. I was ready

to hang myself. Even the morphine drip did not work. They literally

tried every narcotic, and nothing dented that pain. This had never

happened to me before. I was literally in orbit with this pain.

Finally on day 6, the Dr. put in another pump and tried Delaoudid

(spelling), and added 8 muscle relaxers a day. That finally did the

trick. By this time I was in so much agony, I could not do any P.T. or

move my entire leg because it filled with fluid from my toes to my

groin. I thought my leg froze, and would need more surgery. Those 6

days of pain really set me back. My leg had 35 lbs. of fluid in it.

He bound my leg from the toes to the groin with ace bandages. I had

these on 24 hrs. a day.

Our bodies weaken when in pain Clora. I so want you to feel better. I

hope you call your Rheumy and really stress how much pain you are in.

If she still refuses to help you, then I would get another Rheumy

recommendation from your PCP. No one should suffer needlessly.

I pray you will be pain free soon. I so care about you, worry about

what you are dealing with each day.

God Bless you, and take care of yourself.

Hugs,

Barbara