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May 4, 2008, 1:51 am PDT

05/09 Mama Drama

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
 
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May 4, 2008, 1:55 am PDT

Living with Chronic Pain

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Hello Everyone,

I'm looking for tools to cope with the depression that seems to keep creeping up on me.  I don't want to go to my doctor for medications because I want to get to the root of the problem and fix or manage it.  The last time I took the prescribed medications for Fibromyalgia I had terrible side effects.  I don't want to go there again but I'm having a really hard time managing my pain.  Coworkers are noticing that I'm 'different' lately, so I better get on this and try to feel better, I just really lack the resources.  I guess I'm looking for websites or suggested reading or something I haven't thought of yet....

 

 

-Heather

Heather, I take Cymbalta for depression and chronic pain and it helps me out tremendously. I take 60mg in the morning and 60 mg in the evening. Brenda
 

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