Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 Cheryl, I see a pain doctor. My case doesn't sound half as complicated as yours so you might have a different experience but I have found my dr. to be very helpful. Of course my pain dr. prescribes pain medicine but much to my surprise he has helped with nausea and sleep issues as well. He even helped me to avoid altitude sickness when I went to Peru last fall. He has been very attentive to any issue that has caused me discomfort. I'm not sure if your dr will have the same strategy as mine. I think I got lucky with this him. Hope your visit goes well. Darcy --What do they do for your pain at the pain clinic? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 Darcy, Thank you. I do appreciate hearing your experience. I'm not definitely going to the pain doctor, the nurse said the doctor wanted me to go see him. I told the nurse that I would like to talk it over with the doctor first. I will be more open to the suggestion now that I know your experience. I am having a heck of a time right now. I see my PCP tomorrow. I need to write down a list of questions because I have a bunch. I have been seeing so many doctors lately for different problems, but because of the liver disease and other health issues that we have to cover, all my appointments have been running overtime. I don't get my questions answered and some issues are left for the next visit. I have tried to warn the person scheduling that I will need extra time, but so far they aren't really acting on it. I just bought a new book and I am loving it. HOW DOCTORS THINK by Jerome Groupman, MD. whether it is my fault or the doctors' fault I have got to find a better way to communicate with doctors---my life depends on it. I saw the ENT who has definitively diagnosed me with Relaping Polychondritis. One of the tests he ran to rule out another disease, surprisingly came back indicating I have a massive amount of protein in my urine. I was hoping it wouldn't be too serious, but the doctor is quite concerned and is calling my Rheumatologist to have some follow up tests, etc. He really thinks its Wegener's Granulamatosis. This was the disease they were ruling out. So he thinks I have both. This is very discouraging. I'll post what PCP says tomorrow. Thanks again, Cheryl ID, PSC Re: Re:Fatigue-Pain Mgmt > Cheryl, > > I see a pain doctor. My case doesn't sound half as complicated as yours so you might have a different experience but I have found my dr. to be very helpful. > > Of course my pain dr. prescribes pain medicine but much to my surprise he has helped with nausea and sleep issues as well. He even helped me to avoid altitude sickness when I went to Peru last fall. He has been very attentive to any issue that has caused me discomfort. > > I'm not sure if your dr will have the same strategy as mine. I think I got lucky with this him. Hope your visit goes well. > > Darcy > > --What do they do for your pain at the pain clinic? > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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