"Pain Management" in America

[Grau]

It might seem like only "other people" deal with some sort of chronic pain but the older you get the sooner you become one of those "other people".

What are your thoughts and / or experiences?

Thanks,

 

[mamooth]

My older friends turned to cannabis.

 

[Thunk]

I just tell myself it doesn't hurt & keep trudging on.

 

[sparky]

What are your thoughts and / or experiences?

in the trades for 4 decades has resulted in it's toll

guess i'm just too pig headed to slow the 'eff down

~S~

 

[initforme]

Medical cannabis. There are some LESSERS who would deny you pain relief. Recognize this.

 

[sparky]

Recognize this.

recognize this IIFM..>>>

~S~

 

[Grau]

My older friends turned to cannabis.

If they are old enough to have made it to the original Woodstock, I suspect that they may have "...turned to cannabis." about 6 decades ago.

I've found cannabis to be helpful to a small degree as a supplement to other pain med.s but everyone responds differently to different medications.

Thanks,

 

[Grau]

Medical cannabis. There are some LESSERS who would deny you pain relief. Recognize this.

I've never been clear as to how medical cannabis is different from simple, good quality refer.

I'm over 70 and am intimately familiar with the number of narcophobic sadists out here who pretend to treat chronic pain but just want to shove needles in your back.

Good luck,

 

[Grau]

in the trades for 4 decades has resulted in it's toll

guess i'm just too pig headed to slow the 'eff down

~S~

I hope that your collection of aches and pains is not severe.

Is there one particular pain that is worse than another?

 

[SweetSue92]

It might seem like only "other people" deal with some sort of chronic pain but the older you get the sooner you become one of those "other people".

What are your thoughts and / or experiences?

Thanks,

The regulatory bureaucracies screwed everything up again.

In the Before Times you could get pain pills when you needed them.

Then they gave them out like candy at pill mills--bad move.

So then they overreacted and won't give them out for hardly anything.

Our so-called elites are not very smart.

 

[sparky]

I hope that your collection of aches and pains is not severe.

Is there one particular pain that is worse than another?

i try and not complain , so many of my ex-coworkers are on the big job in the sky now Grau

the trades are rough on knees and backs, in my case i've already had minor knee job, but it still puts me down now/then

i just pretend i'm tying my shoe.......~S~

 

[sparky]

Then they gave them out like candy at pill mills--bad move.

I'm only a few years in w/medicare now, but slap that gub'mit card down and i swear they'll hand us crack to shut us up here......~S~

 

[Grau]

The regulatory bureaucracies screwed everything up again.

In the Before Times you could get pain pills when you needed them.

Then they gave them out like candy at pill mills--bad move.

So then they overreacted and won't give them out for hardly anything.

Our so-called elites are not very smart.

Thanks for you brief but accurate observations that show that the pendulum never stops halfway.

You're right. I think that lawsuits and abuse by some individuals contributed to the pitiful condition of pain management in the US.

I had a great Pain Management Dr. who had to suddenly retire for medical reasons. Since he, too, is also a combat Veteran and we both were in the region during the '73 War, we had a great rapport. He also suffers with chronic pain, he was familiar with the misery it causes.

Now, I'll be lucky to find someone who's half as good after countless phone calls and filling out innumerable forms.

I hope you never require pain management because finding a decent doctor is almost as big of a pain as the aches and pains incurred from a life lived fully if not always wisely.

Enjoy your weekend,

 

[SweetSue92]

Thanks for you brief but accurate observations that show that the pendulum never stops halfway.

You're right. I think that lawsuits and abuse by some individuals contributed to the pitiful condition of pain management in the US.

I had a great Pain Management Dr. who had to suddenly retire for medical reasons. Since he, too, is also a combat Veteran and we both were in the region during the '73 War, we had a great rapport. He also suffers with chronic pain, he was familiar with the misery it causes.

Now, I'll be lucky to find someone who's half as good after countless phone calls and filling out innumerable forms.

I hope you never require pain management because finding a decent doctor is almost as big of a pain as the aches and pains incurred from a life lived fully if not always wisely.

Enjoy your weekend,

I was in pain management for some time due to two conditions. It sucked. I was never out of pain and hated the meds. But a wonderful new dr put some pieces together and I had a surgery that changed my life. I pray you have a good resolution.

 

[mamooth]

Another friend (a conservative, by the way) swears their acupuncturist worked miracles.

Maybe it's a placebo effect, but they're definitely happier.

 

[bdtex]

Dopeheads and pill mill doctors and pharmacists ruined it for normal people.

 

[Anathema]

Most of the time I just deal with it. Hot showers, Extra-Strength Tylenol, and heating pads. I do hav Ubrelvy for my occasional cluster headaches, but that’s about it.

 

[Unkotare]

Real men understand that part of life is dealing with pain. The pussies of today who pretend to be men because they talk nonsense about women are too weak to deal with it. Women have always been better at dealing with pain anyway.

 

[Grau]

i try and not complain , so many of my ex-coworkers are on the big job in the sky now Grau

the trades are rough on knees and backs, in my case i've already had minor knee job, but it still puts me down now/then

i just pretend i'm tying my shoe.......~S~

Same here.
I try not to complain too but get frustrated at being unable to do so many of the things that used to be easy.

However, what did I expect after 4 motorcycle wrecks, boxing, wresting, football, bicycle racing (and wrecks), paratrooper training and about 15 combat jumps, carrying cast iron bathtubs upstairs, carrying creosote soaked telephone poles to a home made pile driver where I stood in stinging nettle infested holding the telephone pole upright for the pile driver. The parts of me standing in the water that weren't burned by the stinging nettles were burned from the splattered creosote spray.........and the list goes on.

I'm pretty much retired now after 30 years of being a blacksmith (some people say"artist") where I designed and made wrought iron gates, furniture, African animals, fireplace tools and andirons, wine racks with wrought iron grape vines, garden sculpture and pretty much everything from cannons to napkin rings.

While swinging a hammer next to a 3,000 degree fire may not be everyone's "dream job", I had a great time giving demonstrations at festivals, researching and making reproductions of museum artifacts.

Since the jobs I already listed were not the worst, I can wholeheartedly agree; you're right about manual labor being rough on your body.
In addition to having both hips replaced 25 years ago, bad back, bad knees, broken right foot, cancer, congestive heart failure, Charcot joint syndrome.....and, again, the list goes on.

Anyway, I still feel that I've got far more blessings than misfortunes and since I go to the V.A. hospital for medical care, I frequently see how lucky I really am.


Enjoy your weekend,

 

[Unkotare]

Same here.
I try not to complain too but get frustrated at being unable to do so many of the things that used to be easy.
...

That's called "getting older."