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Originally Posted by freewill
This thread is really good...
How do you get a doctor to give you any pain relief? They... the physicans that I have seem... a family, an internist.. and a reumothologist - all agree on the diagnosis...
The reumothologist sent me back to my family MD.. and she told me to "tough" it out.. and nothing that can be done... except some physical therapy.. which I did.. didn't help.. racked up a big co-pay bill..
Internist tried Lycria - but with my psych. meds it really did not mix well... was well "wacky".. so...she had said.. do not come back for 3 months...even when I called and said it wasn't working...
I went in to see.. her a few months ago to get help.. got stung by a bee in her waiting room... swelled.. had a reaction..
she said... "it is best to not come back - except for regular physicals - because I was 'one of those people'" one with a mental illness - therefore.. perhaps more "prone" to feeling physical aliments - more aware of my pain than others... even though.. she does acknodlwedge the fibrom.. DX..
For that visit - she marked "migrane headache"... as DX.. and I do not have headaches..
I am allergic to all asprin products.. very severe...
My family MD did say to take tyleonal.... but... other than that be "tough"..
My Therapist... glosses over my pain... though it is hard to sometimes sit that long...in session...
so.. how go you guys get... any help??????
I live in a very conservative area...
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I have gotten help from doctors by telling them what it is that I need help with. If I am very direct with them, they tend to be very direct with me in how they help me. I don't hint at all. I would tell them, "I need help with my pain level, this is intollerable. I need a better plan for maintaining some level of normalcy." Now of course we both know that we cannot live like we don't have fibromyalgia when we do. We have to lower our expectations of what we can and cannot do in a days' time. For instance, I cannot get up and get going until about 10 am. If I do, I suffer more and have to go back to bed later in the day. I also cannot sleep before midnight because when I do that, I find I wake in the middle of the night and suffer tremendous pain. There are many maintanaince things I do to help myself cope with the pain including pacing myself and taking very hot showers! Someone mentioned foam. I sleep on two layers of waffle foam under my sheets. It helps tremendously. A good chiropracter can help too. I work out at Curves and I swim and dance. But though my muscles are strong, they ache and hurt a whole lot.