Keith.Jones@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Jones) (06/07/91)
Index Number: 16011
[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]
-> Hmmmm, this is interesting. I suffer from pain in the same locations
-> only on the LEFT side. A little difference in some minor
-> locations but essentially the same. Have they been able to
-> determine the nature and so on of your pain.
No they have not. I live with a spinal cord injury and I have been
told that this is common in spinal cord injured individuals. However, I
did not have this pain fir five years post injury. Sometimes I think
these doctors use this Phantom pain diagnosis (which is whatr it is
referred to as) to shun any responsibility they might have to look for
something a little more involved. It is an easy way to so much as say I
don't want to deal with it. If they cannot pigeonhole you into one of
their standard diagnoses, most doctors don't want to do the work. Also
chronic pain is a threat to every doctor's ego. Many can't admit that
they don't have the answers so they simply give you a reason (excuse) as
to why you have pain. The truth is that most times they don't understand
it any better than you do. They just won't admit it. I know several
others who have pain thatr have also been told that it is scar tissue
from previous surgery that is the cause of their pain. I don't know but
it sounds to me like this diagnoisis may be another one of their
egosavers.
Good Luck,
-Keith-
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Internet: Keith.Jones@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.orgKeith.Jones@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Jones) (06/14/91)
Index Number: 16042
[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]
-> Hmmmm, this is interesting. I suffer from pain in the same locations
-> only on the LEFT side. A little difference in some minor
-> locations but essentially the same. Have they been able to
-> determine the nature and so on of your pain.
No they have not. I live with a spinal cord injury and I have been
told that this is common in spinal cord injured individuals. However, I
did not have this pain fir five years post injury. Sometimes I think
these doctors use this Phantom pain diagnosis (which is whatr it is
referred to as) to shun any responsibility they might have to look for
something a little more involved. It is an easy way to so much as say I
don't want to deal with it. If they cannot pigeonhole you into one of
their standard diagnoses, most doctors don't want to do the work. Also
chronic pain is a threat to every doctor's ego. Many can't admit that
they don't have the answers so they simply give you a reason (excuse) as
to why you have pain. The truth is that most times they don't understand
it any better than you do. They just won't admit it. I know several
others who have pain thatr have also been told that it is scar tissue
from previous surgery that is the cause of their pain. I don't know but
it sounds to me like this diagnoisis may be another one of their
egosavers.
Good Luck,
-Keith-
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