Re: At what point do Rheumotologist start giving serious pain medication?/

[Guest guest]

,

Have you considered a pain management doctor?

I have found that rheumatologists are trained mostly to reduce the symptoms you

are having, not the pain. They leave pain meds to family doctors or pain

management doctors. Based on my experience, I would say if you need something

stronger than Vicodin, you need to be seeing a doctor that specializes in pain

management. I went through PM before I had my back surgery in 2003 and was

prescribed Kadian, which is synthetic morphine. Oh by golly did it ever work,

hallucinations and all! LOL

Good luck. Pain sucks. So do doctors that do not know how to treat it!

Kami

From: Normsgrl@...

Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:34 PM

Subject: [ ] At what point do Rheumotologist start giving serious pain

medication?

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me at what point will a Rheumy start prescribing pain meds

that work?

[Guest guest]

I see T-shirt possibilities in your last paragraph, Kami.

Not an MD

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:28 AM, ~ Kami ~ <kamilleon@...> wrote:

> ,

>

> Have you considered a pain management doctor?

>

> I have found that rheumatologists are trained mostly to reduce the symptoms

you are having, not the pain. They leave pain meds to family doctors or pain

management doctors. Based on my experience, I would say if you need something

stronger than Vicodin, you need to be seeing a doctor that specializes in pain

management. I went through PM before I had my back surgery in 2003 and was

prescribed Kadian, which is synthetic morphine. Oh by golly did it ever work,

hallucinations and all! LOL

>

> Good luck. Pain sucks. So do doctors that do not know how to treat it!

>

> Kami