Pain Awareness Month in Full Swing!
September is Pain Awareness Month and it is hard to believe that it's already half over! It has been an exciting month full of opportunities for learning about pain and its management. www.painawareness.org jointly sponsored by the American Society of Pain Educators and Aventine HealthSciences has been providing learning opportunities on daily basis. I encourage anyone who has an interest to check out some of their telecasts being presented. Read some of the information and select materials of interest. This is a great way for professionals to earn continuing education credit as well! Do so and let me know what you think!! I look forward to hearing from you on either my Pain Management or Migraine board here on WebMD!
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2 Comments:
aaron croft said...
I want to tell you a story. About three years ago I injured myself badly skiing in CO. I was a Breck resident and skiing was a way of life. So was the outdoors and activity. Well, I had a problem called Scheuermann's Kyphosis, along with scoliosis. My discs were shot and nerves were pinched. I got on morphine, followed by Oxy, followed by Fentanyl, you get the story. I still hurt. A lot. All the time. Yet, I had been in a Lazy Boy for 2 years, lost my home in CO, lost my girl of 3 years, came back to Omaha, and I was 50 lbs heavier, and INACTIVE. I decided this was NOT working. I started walking and cut my meds. Slowly. I started walking 1/4 mile, you get the picture. Now, I am completely OFF meds, jogging 7 miles daily, and yes, I still hurt. BADLY. But I lost the extra weight, am active, and don't have the side effects of opiates, which included forgetting the move back to Omaha, not remebering how I lost my girl, my home, and 1 semester of classes, along with 3 years of my life. OPIATES ARE BAD!! KNOW THIS! DEAL WITH THE PAIN, IT WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE. FIGHT ON!!
I hear you. You just described my life pain wise. I do resist the drugs, but I take so much advil, all day and tylenol 3 or oxy at night to sleep just for a few hours...I want to loose my "lazy boy" pounds, I want to run again, I want.....to .....not.....hurt.....why is that unrealistic?
Nancie
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