hi all - I too have been wiped out. Was down for the count yesterday with crushing fatigue - you know, that kind where fatigue is painful? And even rest brings no sleep?
I am upright today but rather wishing I weren't.
I did manage to procure Imitrex for migraines FINALLY - and barely! I've dealt with them since I was 7 and the doc acted like I didn't even know what they were. Yes, they've changed (which no one has cared about, even when "they" tell you to "see your provider if your headaches change"), but I've had killer headaches since childhood, the knock-down, drag-out kind through high school and college (ice pack on neck, heat pack on feet, in bed for 5 hours, no light or sound), and now the current rendition. She's known me for 3 years and still was waffling on the med (Excedrin Migraine stopped being effective) until I mentioned nausea. THEN she agreed to check me out (%*#&^%!!), tells me my muscles aren't too tight -which any massage therapist would argue with her- and then finds a lump on my neck that concerns her. IT'S BEEN THERE SINCE 2002 and NO ONE but a long ago chiropractor has ever cared about it, including this Dr. NOW suddenly she wants an ultrasound on it even tho she thinks it's just likely a fatty tumor beneath the skin (of which I have several in various limbs). REALLY!?!?! Jeeze Mon.
End rant....

WOW Christina - that is INSANE!!!! But you sure hit it on the head with that paragraph. I don't know what to tell you Other than of course "Don't do it (sui)" but I understand that logic when the pain gets too much. I've been there. And I get to thinking "How long will I live like this? Another year? 5? 10? 30?!?!?" (((((((Christina))))))))))
Christina wrote: "There is not a specific test to prove a mental illness but yet its okay for Doctors to fling people on heavy duty Anti psychotics of all kinds and seizure medications or here's some Lithium that might trash your thyroid and kill a kidney or two....Many causing suicidal thoughts and actions.. Right? So why is that okay??? Why is it okay to dismiss a Chronic pain condition that also has NO specific test to prove it , yet giving someone a well studied pain medication on a PRN basis is so off the wall impossible to try? "

Hugs to you all and courage through all your struggles!!!!
(((((Christina, Jan, Liz, Cake...)))))))