This post is a rant and a question of opinion,
ive been suffering with back pain since i was a early teen that has progressed
into what it is now. today i seen a group of doctors that call them selfs pain management specialist's. and one of the doc's Ive seen before today he is a doc of orthopedics and a dr of chiropractics. this doc doesnt seem to care what im saying to him as if he thinks that im thare just for the pain pills, a junkie to put it bluntly now i do admit that from my past ive been addicted to cocain and did my owen recovery with no relapse about 7 years ago. but every time a doc tor trys to give me nercotics i decline them because im afraid that i might get into old habits, and i openly admit to being a pot head but i use mainly to help me with pain and mental problems that i beleive is caused by my consistant pain.
anyways they wanna put me threw another round of physacal theropy as if the 5 other times helped at all. and there half assed diagnosis was non specific back pain with derangment syndrom but i had to basicly strangle him for this diagnosis. but any way i have been unable to work due to this pain sofar two years ive been threw countless job changes and dr's chriro's . shrinks family docs. and thats the best they can come up with. from everything that i have researched on the net, states that a person with this condition should be able to work a job of anytype with out a problem.
but my question is if thats the case, how come i cant get outa bed, play with my kids, take meds that make me sick with stomach problems every day if this is some easly cured thing and all this for a bit of pain releif
and i cant find out if disablity is an option for me to look at cause they wont write the diagnosis down. or is this the point they dont want to tell me the real diagnosis because i might go down and get disablitiy, so i can pay my bills and not have to worrie are my kids going to be warm this winter and so forth.
ok i think that im done ranting for a min. thanks for listening.
im interested what the med users on riu thinks and looking for opinions. thanks

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OK, I know ya said ya were just ranting, but I always try to do my best to help EVERY1!
My sister has so many similarities to the pain, lack of help, and mental fatigues that you explained in yer rant that it is not even funny!
Have ya ever heard of fibromyalgia? Ya shud check this out, brah:
http://www.fmnetnews.com/basics-symptoms.php
YOU have to be the 1 to read up on it and do yer research! Yer docs will try to find n-e thing but THIS as a diagnosis, but it is always worth researching to see if this cud be causing yer pain!
Hope that helps some, and best of luck to ya!

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do you have a history of drug addiction?

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Hey thanks for replieing
its kinda funny that you mention fibromyalgia thats why my fam doc sent me to a pain specialist group, to rule this out. because ive done the research like you mentioned. and have come to my conclusion that the symptoms described 95 percent of my alments. and have been on alot of the drugs recomended to take for fibro. to say my family doc was impressed that i came up with that diagnosis because he never thought of it. my doc is farly young so it hasnt been long since his reefer days in med school. and i like him alot and hes been trying tobe helpfull. but i got kinda outraged at the pain team today.

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The only real problem that ive had was a cocain addiction that i mentioned in my first post, and along with the cocain there was pain killers and muscle relaxers but i only did them when the cocain wasent cutting the pain. i kicked that habit 7 years ago. why do you ask????

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How funny is it that I can pick up thru THIS forum wat yer doc cud not in person and in a lifetime of charts?!?

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I hear you man and just to think that a bunch of pot heads figured it out and they went to school for 6 yrs. and the funny thing is my family doc took a mri and said that it showed enlarged smoral nodes. wedging of t 1- 8 and mis alignment( i forget the name of it) how many diagnose's can you have on the same part of your body. and the pain peeps didnt even look a the mri resaults!!!!!!1

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What state are you in? That info would be very helpful....

Illinois the state that just got screwed by blagovich.

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I'm in IL too. Is your doctor part of a Network? Networks just like to bounce you around from one doctor to the next collecting co pays.

I once had to go to the doctor 3 times in 1 week to get something for a migraine. I have no history of addiction, yet the first two visit's I was told to take ibuprofin, even though I'd been taking that for 2 days before I went to the doc and the headache didn't go away. Once they collected their 3rd copay in a week ($30 per copay) then they gave me a shot to sleep off the headache.