I had an appointment with my new pain managment specialist. My understanding was that we would be looking at alterating my medication regime, like lowering one and adding another and looking at a spinal cord stimularot. Well, we did both kinda.
She is open to the idea of a spinal cord stimulator however, not while Im taking the level of pain medication Im on. Basically, she is of the opinion that I have become hypesensitive due to the amount of pain medication I take. My history shows that the way they have treated me with pain medicaition has not been the best and wouldnt be the way they would treat it now.
I dont really understand, if Im in pain, really severe pain then it stands to reason that I would be given pain medication, what do they do otherwise? Are you left to suffer in pain?
So, now I have to some how reduce my reliance on my pain medications. I have to start with a pain clinic to help. The pain doctor was really good and all but I cant really wrap my head around how I manage my pain without pain medication, when I have no other skills to manage it other than pain medication. They now want to take that away before they put in a device to treat the pain. Why didnt they do that before allowing my levels of pain medication to get this high? Why wasnt the option given rather than more pain medications? It wasnt like I wasnt seeing a pain management specialist, he was who increased the pain medications.
I get that they cant go straight to the spinal cord stimulator as any time they touch my back for anything it flares up. But Im not looking forward to the future of things in regards to my pain. Im trying to reduce now already, because I am that kind of idiot. Its not fun already. The pain management specialist I am seeing now is expecting it will take 2 years at least for me to deal with the level of pain medication Im on now.
To add to the fun, she has given me and I have made an appointment with, a specialist physio that is trained to deal with people like me who deal severe chronic pain and make programs that have this in mind. Thats because everytime I deal with a physio, we do a program and my pain worsens so quickly and I cant keep up with it for more than a couple of sessions. It will be interesting if he can get something to work.
