C Craft
Well-Known Member
I carried my wife to her Pain Management doctor. Where a son and father had brought his very sick aged mother and wife perspectively! I was told she had been refused by three hospitals and all she was able to do nowadays was ly around and cry in pain. Then I was told that most of the folks coming to this place are low lifes without a job and only needing a fix.
Let me tell you I lowered the boom on him and his father and told them their mother and wife perspectively, deserved better than the two of them, as they had little compassion for those in pain, and it makes me wonder if you even understand your own family!!
You see my wife has TM and she is one of those that will never recovery from it because of the ignorance of Neurologist who had no idea what he was treating and went so far as to call my wife crazy, (the pain and symptoms she was having were all in her mind!! Although he was never that blunt. I finally told him I thought we might need a recommendation to UAB Birmingham. Which he did set up. We saw the head of Neurology at UAB and at time I had sent him a huge amount of files. He actually took the time to sit down and read through the majority of the info and test and records, MRI's and other info I had sent him. At the time I did not know anything about TM and had never heard of it. So I came home and read everything I could about it. I am no rouge scholar so what I did not understand I read again and again till I did understand it. We went back to our local Neurologist and since he had yet to receive the report from UAB, I told him what the doctor their had said, that my wife had TM. And his exact words were, "oh, I doubt that" I told him we were thur and we got up and walked out of the office!! Two years later we went back to UAB Birmingham and the same doctor re-confirmed his diagnosis! If it wasn't so far up there that is where I would take her for treatment! They have one of three clinics in the world dedicated to TM. That should tell you how rare and how hard this disease it too get treatment for!!
Today at the Pain Management, her PA says. Well I guess we should send you for another MRI. My wife is terrified at the idea of an MRI because she can not lay flat to begin with, and that small tight table is like a torture chamber for her. It puts her in such pain it will take weeks to recovery from! So then he goes into well they have a stand up one here in town.
No kidding but most of you will never be able to read the nerve damage off an MRI anyway, since you are telling me her other MRI doesn't show anything. No stupid it was not a car wreck the spine was not severed, there is not an exploded disc. The damage was done by a virus that is no longer there! So if you are not absolutely astute at reading an MRI don't suggest to me that she needs another because you can't see nothing!!
Oh my God read up on what you are treating if you do not know! I will be glad to provide you with links to John Hopkins and UAB Birmingham as well as too the TM Clinic at UAB. You see you can be dying in the state of Florida and if you need something for pain on a longer than short term. Well then you must see a PM doctor. A doctor is only concerned with how many injections they can give you in you back. A series of three will run you in the neighborhood of $45,000 dollars or at least that is what insurance will be billed, by doctor anesthesiologist and assistants and hospital costs for an out patient procedure!
So if you are just needing medication because the injection have never done you any good then you have become a liability to the practise and doctor! See all they charge there is an office visit. So then they begin to share the wealth as I term it! You get sent to have MRI's and tests and drug tests, and on and on.............! In the medical field that is known as sharing the wealth with other doctors and the associated hospitals!
This whole damn Opiate Crisis is about 75% contrived BS. I am also a long term pain patient. I have been told you must be a danger out on the road because you are high. No first of all I am not high I am taking the edge off that continues pain, kind of like someone has a knife in you and they continue to twist. I am much more dangerous out there on the road in pain, because that is all I can think about is the pain!
Now back the Opiate Crisis, this whole talk about an Opiate Crisis started about the same time as Obama Care. Do you know who the largest consumer of Opiates for pain is. Old people and people in chronic pain. If you can say there is a crisis and get the old people and the chronic pain patients, off of the roles. The government and the insurance companies will save a fortune. No doubt about it, there are deaths every day from Opiates. However most involve mixing other drugs and alcohol with them. It is tragic and it hurts and tears families apart. However I had one doctor tell me that the real people who would suffer from this witch hunt, is those who are in chronic pain! And he concluded with and the only way to stop it is for the people to rise up and say enough is enough!!
Did you know that all illegal drugs classed as Opiates also go into this so called staggering statistics!!! Read this statement and let it sink in for a minute!
Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally by prescription, such as oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), codeine, morphine, and many others. Those robberies where legal drugs are sold on the street later, they are all part of this!
Heroin is also an opioid, as is heroin and opium, and they are all illegal. However when it comes to the Opiate Crisis these deaths are lumped right into the statistics. Oh by the way Methadone, used to treat heroine addiction and used legally as a pain control. It is is in the Opiate class as well. Still think I am barking at the wrong, I don't think so!!
OK so this was not as short a rant as thought when I started but I know many out there through no fault of their own have had to resort to pain management rather than do the more permanent solution to living with a life of constant pain. So next time you think all folks getting pain medication are a bunch of dead beats with no job you might want to learn something about it. I got news for your most folks in chronic pain look just like you. You may not see loss of limb or permanent visible damage on the outside, but the pain on the inside is real. Those in chronic pain have the highest static for suicide. Look at your brother or sister on the street and treat them like they are family. You may never know they may have left some part of themselves in a foreign country, just so you had the right to stand and say what your uneducated opinion is!!
Cliff
Let me tell you I lowered the boom on him and his father and told them their mother and wife perspectively, deserved better than the two of them, as they had little compassion for those in pain, and it makes me wonder if you even understand your own family!!
You see my wife has TM and she is one of those that will never recovery from it because of the ignorance of Neurologist who had no idea what he was treating and went so far as to call my wife crazy, (the pain and symptoms she was having were all in her mind!! Although he was never that blunt. I finally told him I thought we might need a recommendation to UAB Birmingham. Which he did set up. We saw the head of Neurology at UAB and at time I had sent him a huge amount of files. He actually took the time to sit down and read through the majority of the info and test and records, MRI's and other info I had sent him. At the time I did not know anything about TM and had never heard of it. So I came home and read everything I could about it. I am no rouge scholar so what I did not understand I read again and again till I did understand it. We went back to our local Neurologist and since he had yet to receive the report from UAB, I told him what the doctor their had said, that my wife had TM. And his exact words were, "oh, I doubt that" I told him we were thur and we got up and walked out of the office!! Two years later we went back to UAB Birmingham and the same doctor re-confirmed his diagnosis! If it wasn't so far up there that is where I would take her for treatment! They have one of three clinics in the world dedicated to TM. That should tell you how rare and how hard this disease it too get treatment for!!
Today at the Pain Management, her PA says. Well I guess we should send you for another MRI. My wife is terrified at the idea of an MRI because she can not lay flat to begin with, and that small tight table is like a torture chamber for her. It puts her in such pain it will take weeks to recovery from! So then he goes into well they have a stand up one here in town.
No kidding but most of you will never be able to read the nerve damage off an MRI anyway, since you are telling me her other MRI doesn't show anything. No stupid it was not a car wreck the spine was not severed, there is not an exploded disc. The damage was done by a virus that is no longer there! So if you are not absolutely astute at reading an MRI don't suggest to me that she needs another because you can't see nothing!!
Oh my God read up on what you are treating if you do not know! I will be glad to provide you with links to John Hopkins and UAB Birmingham as well as too the TM Clinic at UAB. You see you can be dying in the state of Florida and if you need something for pain on a longer than short term. Well then you must see a PM doctor. A doctor is only concerned with how many injections they can give you in you back. A series of three will run you in the neighborhood of $45,000 dollars or at least that is what insurance will be billed, by doctor anesthesiologist and assistants and hospital costs for an out patient procedure!
So if you are just needing medication because the injection have never done you any good then you have become a liability to the practise and doctor! See all they charge there is an office visit. So then they begin to share the wealth as I term it! You get sent to have MRI's and tests and drug tests, and on and on.............! In the medical field that is known as sharing the wealth with other doctors and the associated hospitals!
This whole damn Opiate Crisis is about 75% contrived BS. I am also a long term pain patient. I have been told you must be a danger out on the road because you are high. No first of all I am not high I am taking the edge off that continues pain, kind of like someone has a knife in you and they continue to twist. I am much more dangerous out there on the road in pain, because that is all I can think about is the pain!
Now back the Opiate Crisis, this whole talk about an Opiate Crisis started about the same time as Obama Care. Do you know who the largest consumer of Opiates for pain is. Old people and people in chronic pain. If you can say there is a crisis and get the old people and the chronic pain patients, off of the roles. The government and the insurance companies will save a fortune. No doubt about it, there are deaths every day from Opiates. However most involve mixing other drugs and alcohol with them. It is tragic and it hurts and tears families apart. However I had one doctor tell me that the real people who would suffer from this witch hunt, is those who are in chronic pain! And he concluded with and the only way to stop it is for the people to rise up and say enough is enough!!
Did you know that all illegal drugs classed as Opiates also go into this so called staggering statistics!!! Read this statement and let it sink in for a minute!
Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally by prescription, such as oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), codeine, morphine, and many others. Those robberies where legal drugs are sold on the street later, they are all part of this!
Heroin is also an opioid, as is heroin and opium, and they are all illegal. However when it comes to the Opiate Crisis these deaths are lumped right into the statistics. Oh by the way Methadone, used to treat heroine addiction and used legally as a pain control. It is is in the Opiate class as well. Still think I am barking at the wrong, I don't think so!!
OK so this was not as short a rant as thought when I started but I know many out there through no fault of their own have had to resort to pain management rather than do the more permanent solution to living with a life of constant pain. So next time you think all folks getting pain medication are a bunch of dead beats with no job you might want to learn something about it. I got news for your most folks in chronic pain look just like you. You may not see loss of limb or permanent visible damage on the outside, but the pain on the inside is real. Those in chronic pain have the highest static for suicide. Look at your brother or sister on the street and treat them like they are family. You may never know they may have left some part of themselves in a foreign country, just so you had the right to stand and say what your uneducated opinion is!!
Cliff
