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kimthecatlover said:
I have real problems with pain from arthritis...sometimes so bad to necessitate cortisone shots in both knees and my right shoulder...and my mental health workers don't seem to take it seriously..they STILL get on my case about keeping things tidy EVEN when I have serious pain and have had shots in my joints...Do they 'push' me because they think I may be exaggerating my pain...or think I'm doing it to 'get out of doing my responsibilities'? I wish they could walk a mile in my shoes(or with arthritis pain for more than one day)! Yes when I am well enough I take care of my place...I don't understand why mental-health workers don't take pain seriously sometimes..am I the only person who deals with this?

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no,i have to have cortisone shots in my hips and knees fairly frequently. for months - years - no one picked up on my bad back but now it's led to this and regular physio on my back (which isn't quite aligned now, hence the hip problems). my rheumatologist thinks it was a mixture of mania and the meds that have screwed up my back so completely, but the first time i went to a rheumatologist because i was in pain (my neck was refusing to work, again) the guy said the pain was clearly depression and not rheumatological.

my depression is never manifested as physical pain, nor does that explain my neck actually being unable to move, but it's so hard to argue with doctors

i hope someone listens to you xx