The State of Chronic Pain Care in 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2024
- Featuring:
Dr. Yoni Ashar, PhD - Clinical Advisor, Lin Health
Dr. Alexandra Adler, MD - Lowell Pain Management Center
Moderated by:
Dr. Abigail Hirsch, PhD - Chief Clinical Advisor & Co-Founder, Lin Health
I think that when you’re stressed about a body part your brain sends inflammation there to protect you. Hence pain.
Two examples. When I had a giant fibroid tumour growing inside my uterus, as soon as I found out it was there, it literally doubled in size within a couple of months. It had probably been there for a while already, but my focus on it caused it to grow substantially. Also, I had a bad bout of pneumonia, which led to severe arm pain. As soon as I focused on it, it got a lot worse and bothered me for about a year. It wasn’t until I got completely enveloped in something else and forgot about it, that it literally just went away.
@@thelaceygirl We whole heartedly agree. Actually, we see quite regularly people whose inflammatory markers improve as they learn to retrain their nervous system.
I have a pain management doctor and due to everything going on with my body, especially my spine he has prescribed fentanyl patch and Percocet BUT no pharmacy will fill it because their reasoning being that my doctor is on review, and I found out it’s because he still prescribes pain medication for us few WHO ACTUALLY need this to live my basic life, so can you explain to me why can’t I get my pain medication, 3 back surgeries, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis and my spinal cord was cut during my last surgery, I’ve seen specialist after specialist and I was told, NOTHING WILL HELP MY BACK, and I my body also processes everything faster, and 2/3/24 I found out my neck is losing my discs and so my whole spine will be bone on bone, and that’s just my spine
I am an extremely similar situation ... I also participate daily in physical therapy - massage therapy ... And everything I can. Every single day is all about managing my pain to get through the day and I am not on fentanyl and am terrified of it .... But now even pain management doctors are refusing to prescribe pain medication. Doctors are being punished, harassed and are just as much of a victim as the pain patients. Before I was a pain patient and spending 6 months in an incredibly well-known hospital ... Screwing up surgeries and completely destroying my entire spine 11 years ago .... Hardware coming apart ... Tumors growing all throughout my spine and into my bones ... There is not one neurosurgeon - not one orthopedic surgeon ... That will help me. The last one held my hand while looking at my films saying hospital x screwed up you have suffered enough - try and live the best life you can for as long as you can " ... I do everything I can to take responsibility to manage my pain beyond my pain medication - but my pain medication is about to be taken away from me even though I have not increased my dosage for 11 years and have an excellent relationship with my doctor who I see who regularly and also an excellent relationship with my pharmacy .... What the government and regulations are doing to my doctor who I have been with for 20 years ... Before all of this started, back when I was an athlete ... I feel like they are just telling me we would just rather see you die because it's also not legal to put you down the same way you would put a dog down - don't get me wrong I don't want to die I have fought very hard to improve my situation, not look at the past ... Look to the future with optimism and acceptance ... Now just more hoops to jump through. I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all but I am wondering if they would rather us all just die because we are too expensive to keep on the medical rolls ... It is not people like you and I nor are doctors who are causing all of these fentanyl deaths ... Why don't they look at the cartels and also look at the desperation of real chronic pain sufferers who are being punished ... And I know some who have become so desperate they have either committed suicide ... Or have tried to fill prescriptions off the street. I refuse to do either. I know the wake of the destructive path those two options could possibly leave behind for the people and professionals that love us and care for us - so suffering it is until our hearts give out or we can no longer physically walk to even get ourselves water hyphen a horrible way to die but when truly that disabled - with physical limitations that are so profound - and the pain that comes along with it - that is the simple and factual truth of what will eventually happen to those who are not willing to consider suicide and for those who are not willing to purchase illegal drugs ... Many of us live alone and don't have family ... It is a horrible fate that all of these regulators are condemning us to
I AM SO SO VERY SORRY FOR YOUR PAIN AND YOUR SITUATION - IF I HAD ENOUGH STRENGTH IN ME I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR A BETTER WAY AND FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND LIKE I - AND ALSO FOR THE VERY COMPASSIONATE AND LOVING HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS THAT ARE TRYING TO HELP US HYPHEN THE ONES THAT KNOW US, RESPECT US AND ARE TRYING TO TREAT US
The state of chronic pain is prescriptions opioids are down over 50%, illicit overdoses are up over 1000% during the same time period, [SAMHSA] and half a million opioid pain patients are dead from 100% preventable suicide after rapid and forced taper. Start treating intractable pain with the actual clinical gold standard, or patients will continue to lose functionality, suffer, and die. Saying pain patients can magical think their way out of pain is the new hysteria. We have gone all the way back to telling the patient that they can 'think themselves well," and if they don't, then they're just weak people. Treat complex intractable with safe, legal and effective opioids and save lives.