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Hippiekinkster -> Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/10/2011 7:45:32 PM)

She's just flat-out cool.
http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/

This is a thread to talk about what ails ya about Healers and their co-conspirators.

I couldn't be happier with my pain doc. True, she works for a small chain, but she's also flat-out cool. I mean, she followed the Dead when she was in Med school. Plus she's about 4'11, petite but very feminine, and just absolutely beautiful - inside and out. What I don't like is they're always so rushed... never much time to talk about living with pain, the psychological toll chronic pain takes on a body, et cetera and so on...

My PCP is OK. Her predecessor was more empathetic, IMO, being trained in the UK, which doesn't seem to have the undercurrent of money-grubbing one finds in most US quacks.



Arpig -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/10/2011 8:00:14 PM)

I wish she was my doctor.



slvemike4u -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/10/2011 8:12:15 PM)

Yeah very cool
Hippie,most folks do not realize the strain dealing with pain as a constant companion takes on ones psyche.There are days I can't even sit and read a book..sooner or later I realize I have been reading the same paragraph over and over again....but you have no choice but to deal with it as best you can.I refuse to give into my pain...as a result I will not abandon participating in some activities that actually tend to bring on my pain...but I they to be smart about it.My pain doc works as best he can with me given the constraints inherent in a system where the insurance company calls the shots as to my care.



0ldhen -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 8:42:33 AM)


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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

but you have no choice but to deal with it as best you can.I refuse to give into my pain...as a result I will not abandon participating in some activities that actually tend to bring on my pain...but I they to be smart about it


This!

I have JRA, pain is my lifelong constant companion. But I NEVER let it stop me, period. I ride, garden, cook, clean, care for my animals, my home, daily no matter what.

I have an awesome rheumatologist, she listens, she works with me. I adjust my own meds up or down according to what I am dealing with on any given day, she supports and encourages that. She makes sure I have the max daily dose of everything I use available when she sends in my prescriptions.

My pain doc is another lifesaver. He knows how I feel about narcotics. So he prescribes both narcotic and non narcotic pain meds and just keeps an eye on the records I keep about what and when I use those drugs and keeps me refilled accordingly.

I am grateful for both of them, they let me live to the max.



angelikaJ -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 11:09:24 AM)

My primary care physician is exceptionally good and she lets you know she cares about you: the person. She is warm, has a sense of humor and has written me very interesting notes and prescriptions, including "Say no" with infinite refills.

The finest physician I have ever had was my last psychiatrist. She treated the whole person and had open communication with all my healthcare practitioners.

edit: clarity



slavemoth -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 11:22:25 AM)

its just like the n.h.s lol



myotherself -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 11:44:51 AM)

my NHS doc is absolutely outstanding. She listens, she cares and she not only treats the whole person, she treats the whole family.

My dad is slowly but surely dying. Little by little every day - I just hope he makes it through to the end of the year, but I know I'm going to be disappointed. My parents and I share a GP. Despite being massively busy, she finds the time call my mum just to see how dad is doing. At the same time she'll make sure mum is ok, and will make same-day appointments if mum's arthritis or asthma is playing up because she knows mum wants to be well to look after dad.

She will also prioritise my appointments (usually same day or next day instead of a week or more of waiting) because she knows I'm not a malingerer and that if I make an appointment then it's usually something serious. And while I'm there she will ask how I'm coping with my dad's situation, and make the time to chat.

If that woman ever moves her practice elsewhere, I'm going with her. She's fucking awesome.



SternSkipper -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 1:05:31 PM)

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What I don't like is they're always so rushed... never much time to talk about living with pain, the psychological toll chronic pain takes on a body, et cetera and so on...


Jesus... her name isn't Claudette, is it??????




Arpig -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 1:37:35 PM)

I have a seriously fucked-up back. I have constant pain, always have. It interferes with my sleep...laying still too long hurts, sitting too long hurts, standing too long hurts...well it just hurts. I don't take anything for it, nothing that works allows me to function as well, so I just make do. I go through my day hurting.



SternSkipper -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 4:26:58 PM)

quote:

I have a seriously fucked-up back. I have constant pain, always have. It interferes with my sleep...laying still too long hurts, sitting too long hurts, standing too long hurts...well it just hurts. I don't take anything for it, nothing that works allows me to function as well, so I just make do. I go through my day hurting.


Oh, you wish it was just your back[:D]



SternSkipper -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 4:28:09 PM)

quote:

my NHS doc is absolutely outstanding. She listens, she cares and she not only treats the whole person, she treats the whole family.


Does she ever ask you about the pizza?



DavidLee44UK -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 4:38:23 PM)

i take diplofenic for my back when it gets so bad can't move

also take thyroxine for my under active thyroid



myotherself -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/11/2011 11:07:10 PM)


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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper

quote:

my NHS doc is absolutely outstanding. She listens, she cares and she not only treats the whole person, she treats the whole family.


Does she ever ask you about the pizza?


she's very tactful. And a vegetarian.

I like that about her [:D]



DarkSteven -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/12/2011 1:54:14 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: myotherself

my NHS doc is absolutely outstanding. She listens, she cares and she not only treats the whole person, she treats the whole family.

My dad is slowly but surely dying. Little by little every day - I just hope he makes it through to the end of the year, but I know I'm going to be disappointed. My parents and I share a GP. Despite being massively busy, she finds the time call my mum just to see how dad is doing. At the same time she'll make sure mum is ok, and will make same-day appointments if mum's arthritis or asthma is playing up because she knows mum wants to be well to look after dad.

She will also prioritise my appointments (usually same day or next day instead of a week or more of waiting) because she knows I'm not a malingerer and that if I make an appointment then it's usually something serious. And while I'm there she will ask how I'm coping with my dad's situation, and make the time to chat.

If that woman ever moves her practice elsewhere, I'm going with her. She's fucking awesome.


I wonder how much she'd take to move to Colorado.

I wonder.



Hippiekinkster -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/12/2011 7:43:34 AM)


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ORIGINAL: DavidLee44UK

i take diplofenic for my back when it gets so bad can't move

also take thyroxine for my under active thyroid
Dude, if diclofenac takes care of your back pain, you are nowhere near the major leagues. Fuckin' girly-men...

To arpig: do something about it.
"5. Chilling Concept: Chronic Pain as a Brain Disease
June 10, 2010 — This was Part 5 of our ongoing series on “Pain and the Great Brain Robbery!” We described how compelling research evidence suggests that no matter what brings on a chronic noncancer pain condition — acute injury, precipitating disease, or unknown factors — it ultimately manifests as a distinct brain disease, which impacts all aspects of the individual’s life and may become irreversible. Relatively new, noninvasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological technologies have facilitated unprecedented examinations of how pain affects signal processing, metabolic activity, and structural changes in the living human brain. Taken as a whole, the research studies have uncovered 3 trends establishing chronic pain as a brain disease: chemical changes in key brain structures; functional changes in patterns of brain activity; structural changes in brain anatomy that create dysfunction. Appropriate clinical response to these alarming changes could require prompt diagnosis followed by aggressive, multimodal pain management early in the course of disease progression to forestall or ameliorate potentially serious and incapacitating brain damage."
http://updates.pain-topics.org/2011/01/top-10-hit-parade-postings-for-2010.html





kalikshama -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/12/2011 8:04:50 AM)

I hurt my back when I was 17. Good shoes, chair, and mattress help. I have to be careful to stay physically active otherwise I stiffen up. I have a desk job and need to move around periodically. Fortunately, my tiny bladder helps with this :)

Gentle yoga is great (but people have to be careful cuz some teachers have no idea about proper warm ups. Yoga classes labeled gentle/beginner/or restorative should be safe.)

I've been swimming a lot lately, and have been relatively pain free.

When I weighed 30# more, I was in a lot more pain - pain reduction is another reason to lose weight.

http://www.spine-health.com/wellness/nutrition-diet-weight-loss/weight-loss-back-pain-relief

Patients who are overweight or obese and suffer from back pain may not be aware that their excess weight is actually contributing to their back pain. While it has not been thoroughly studied exactly how excess weight can cause or contribute to back pain, it is known that people who are overweight often are at greater risk for back pain, joint pain and muscle strain than those who are not obese 1.

...every pound adds strain to the muscles and ligaments in the back. In order to compensate for extra weight, the spine can become tilted and stressed unevenly. As a result, over time, the back may lose its proper support and an unnatural curvature of the spine may develop. In particular, pain and problems in the low back may be aggravated by obesity. This occurs for people with extra weight in their stomachs because the excess weight pulls the pelvis forward and strains the lower back, creating lower back pain.



DavidLee44UK -> RE: Wish She wuz my Doc... (7/12/2011 11:43:46 AM)

kalikshama i have lived with scoliosis since age 14 when was offered a spine surgical procedure

which although common know wasn't then i was only given a 30-70 chance success and if it didn't work I would be in a wheelchair

have pain everyday when its manageable pain I cycle through 3 over the counter pain killers

only when it gets very bad do I take diplofenic

my curved spine affects my legs ow which get very stiff and have been told at my age itll just get worse

back pain is a pain in the butt sometimes



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