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May 7, 2008, 7:03 am PDT

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Please do a show on chronic pain. There have got to be other people out there who are in my situation and who do not know who to turn to next. Pain every single day of their lives, altering what their life used to be like. Go to the doctor and get the same old responses. Here are your pain pill prescriptions, see ya in a month. Family thinking that you are already a drug addict because you are on medicine prescribed to you by a M.D., but that doesn't matter you are bound to be an addict at some point in your life. (According to them). Friends who don't understand that "no, you don't feel like coming out for dinner because all you want to do is to lay in bed because you are in pain or are tired from the pain pills or depressed over your situation. Unless you have ever had chronic pain and have suffered from it daily you have NO idea what we go through on a daily basis. It just gets old, people don't understand us. I would LOVE for dr.phil to do a show on chronic pain and have a pain psychologist or a pain doctror there with our group who can actually give statistics of what our pain does to us on a dad to day basis and just how common of a problem this is for us. thanks, brenda fattig

This is a program on Mama Drama. Why did you feel compelled to write about chronic pain?

True, that is what my own mother is doing right now. She is 74, and her bursitis rules her life. I agree that it is uncomfortable, but she makes it worse concentrating on what she used to do. How well she used to feel. And, the pain the pain the pain. All day long. It is truly monotonous, and not at all helpful.

How many prescriptions do you have? Do you go to the hospital in an ambulance for straight morphine?

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May 9, 2008, 2:40 pm PDT

chronic pain!

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Please do a show on chronic pain. There have got to be other people out there who are in my situation and who do not know who to turn to next. Pain every single day of their lives, altering what their life used to be like. Go to the doctor and get the same old responses. Here are your pain pill prescriptions, see ya in a month. Family thinking that you are already a drug addict because you are on medicine prescribed to you by a M.D., but that doesn't matter you are bound to be an addict at some point in your life. (According to them). Friends who don't understand that "no, you don't feel like coming out for dinner because all you want to do is to lay in bed because you are in pain or are tired from the pain pills or depressed over your situation. Unless you have ever had chronic pain and have suffered from it daily you have NO idea what we go through on a daily basis. It just gets old, people don't understand us. I would LOVE for dr.phil to do a show on chronic pain and have a pain psychologist or a pain doctror there with our group who can actually give statistics of what our pain does to us on a dad to day basis and just how common of a problem this is for us. thanks, brenda fattig

Maybe you should e-mail Dr. Phil, doube if he reads the message boards.

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May 11, 2008, 1:26 pm PDT

This is a good idea, but posted in wrong place

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Please do a show on chronic pain. There have got to be other people out there who are in my situation and who do not know who to turn to next. Pain every single day of their lives, altering what their life used to be like. Go to the doctor and get the same old responses. Here are your pain pill prescriptions, see ya in a month. Family thinking that you are already a drug addict because you are on medicine prescribed to you by a M.D., but that doesn't matter you are bound to be an addict at some point in your life. (According to them). Friends who don't understand that "no, you don't feel like coming out for dinner because all you want to do is to lay in bed because you are in pain or are tired from the pain pills or depressed over your situation. Unless you have ever had chronic pain and have suffered from it daily you have NO idea what we go through on a daily basis. It just gets old, people don't understand us. I would LOVE for dr.phil to do a show on chronic pain and have a pain psychologist or a pain doctror there with our group who can actually give statistics of what our pain does to us on a dad to day basis and just how common of a problem this is for us. thanks, brenda fattig

I love your idea because I have daily chronic pain from a nerve disease called thoracic outlet syndrome, and also CRPS and fibromyagia also developed.

But you should email directly to Dr. Phil - this is the message board where we comment on the shows, and I don't know if he'll see your very important message! So hitthe contact Dr. Phil and choose "email the show."

Yes, getting families to understand and stop criticizing severe chronic pain situations is VERY hard - I know from my own experience. We have a neurological message board where we talk about this stuff and more - http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum24.html check it out if your illness is in any way related to nerves, neurological conditions and more. There is a list of about 200 illnesses I think. It is the ONLY support I have since my condition is rare, and since my family only criticizes me.

God bless you and I wish a good day.

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Why Now?

chronic pain!

This is a good idea, but posted in wrong place