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Chronic Pain/Chronic Illness: Coping and Transformation by Heather Grace
My segments from the 2013 Women’s Pain Conference. For more info see ForGrace.org. Effective care has transformed my life. I’ve been able to work FT again for several years. More importantly, I don’t consider myself to be a chronic pain/chronic illness patient anymore. Instead I’m a person who’s faced serious challenges to their overall wellbeing & am doing GREAT!
Be well & thanks for watching! 🙏🏼🥰💜
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Adhesive Arachnoiditis: Identification & Treatment of Inflammatory Pain by Dr. Forest Tennant
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Presented by retired physician & intractable pain expert, Forest Tennant MD MPH DrPH on July 13, 2020, this information is VITAL to anyone who's got severe back pain / neck pain, especially those with Adhesive Arachnoiditis, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome & anyone who's suffered a spinal fluid leak. This webinar provides important researched-based treatment information you won't get anywhere else, spec...
From Chronic to Central Pain by Dr. Forest Tennant (AUDIO)
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Listen to "Moving Beyond The Pain” by renowned pain expert Forest Tennant, MD DrPH. This presentation delves into important warning signs that Chronic Pain is becoming Centralized Intractable Pain, commonly diagnosed as Central Pain or Intractable Pain. Then, get important pain care information you won't get elsewhere - tips based on decades of pain research. VIDEO version: ua-cam.com/video/gbD...
Dr. Forest Tennant -- Chronic to Central Pain: Warning Signs & Tips
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Watch "Moving Beyond The Pain” by renowned pain expert Forest Tennant, MD DrPH. This presentation delves into important warning signs that Chronic Pain is becoming Centralized Intractable Pain, commonly diagnosed as Central Pain or Intractable Pain. Then, get important pain care information you won't get elsewhere - tips based on decades of pain research. VIDEO version: ua-cam.com/video/gbD9m-J...
Chronic Pain Coping & Transformation -- 2013 Women In Pain Conference
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Chronic Pain Coping & Transformation was a panel discussion at the 2013 Women In Pain Conference. All 4 participants are women who live with the serious chronic illness that is CHRONIC PAIN. This session featured ways they each cope with their pain both physically & emotionally. The panel took it a step further delving into the ways that coping with pain has had a transformative impact... posit...

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  • @nancylowe2692
    @nancylowe2692 Місяць тому

    Another cause of onset of dementia is side effects of drugs.

  • @ArlineHunter-gr7fm
    @ArlineHunter-gr7fm 4 місяці тому

    The Veterans needs to see his videos and also start a. Advocacy program for Veterans with Chronic Pain and the citizens of the United States population .

  • @Annuitygoddess
    @Annuitygoddess 5 місяців тому

    I need help

    • @johnbox007
      @johnbox007 4 місяці тому

      Have you been diagnosed with AA?

  • @JamesLinn-bt9ni
    @JamesLinn-bt9ni 6 місяців тому

    Nobody knows as much about Chronic Intractable Pain than any other person I have ever known. God bless him and his very supportive wife.

  • @materialgirl338
    @materialgirl338 7 місяців тому

    He has empathy and compassion, you could see he has a heart for his patients not many of these doctors are around today.

  • @thesunisbright
    @thesunisbright 7 місяців тому

    can somebody tell me why i cant find dr tennants show on youtube anymore?

  • @proudmomoftwins2004
    @proudmomoftwins2004 7 місяців тому

    Ive had chronic pain for over 20yrs. Ive been to so many specialists,had so many tests, a spinal fusion, and it took a pelvic floor therapist who told me i have this and sent in a fax to my primary dr to refer me to a specialist that she thinks will really help. She also said a good book to read is Explain Pain by David Butler

  • @mysecretlifeofpain
    @mysecretlifeofpain 10 місяців тому

    What can you do if nothing for central sensitization works, at all? No other pain treatments work. I’ve really tried everything, except hcg and opioids…

  • @brandillysmom
    @brandillysmom 10 місяців тому

    My doctors never ever ran these tests. They did ask if I was depressed. I said yes because of the pain and my loss of productivity from being in pain. From there, they try to put me on antidepressants though. They don’t try to find out anything they don’t try to fix anything. All they want to do is give me a pill to go away. I don’t go to the doctor anymore even though I should. I’m too disappointed. That doesn’t work. I’m in pain.

  • @julierogers4473
    @julierogers4473 11 місяців тому

    Please help me..12 years and 2 back surgeries later I'm so much worse than I was before..

  • @lindasplaylist100
    @lindasplaylist100 11 місяців тому

    Thank you so much. I have the same thing. It is so awful. Mine is from a botched epidural with my last child.

  • @fezzypepper8525
    @fezzypepper8525 Рік тому

    Thank you again Dr Tennant ❤

  • @nickb7817
    @nickb7817 Рік тому

    This is the video that changed my life

  • @babycakesweetiepie77
    @babycakesweetiepie77 Рік тому

    My husband has arachnoiditis and bph . Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia .are they connected ?

  • @baconrocks1720
    @baconrocks1720 Рік тому

    I wish we had more of the doctors who really know about pain. We need to write our legislators in every state and save those "legacy patients" who aren't dead yet from having legal pain medications discontinued or doses cut too much. It is causing untold harms to so many people that one day this country will look back in shame. Legal opioids do work for many, returning their quality of life and productivity. But with docs too afraid to prescribe due to inhumane state laws, many of these patients are now falling into a huge crevice, a gap in treatment that is costing lives. We need ethical and caring doctors, not those scared witless about prosecution by their own government.

    • @POCKBA
      @POCKBA Рік тому

      I know is very different for each paitient i have used oain killers off and off for a year a copple of years off and I had a hard time for a montj or two two times when quitting. I dont like the feeling of morphine?, heroine and methadone i have gone cold turkey from as I have done a a lot with psin killers ad the doctors hwre quit it right off with out warning. I have to admit the problem is going with long term pain but I still get exhousted and tired from the opistes. But after the surgery for psin who made my pain a lot worse i have something who is called suicide pains is going on with thr pain. I work made a lot of money on drugs and nobody supect s thing nobody tought I used anything and quitting it goes well for a while but than the pain get so strong but I am feeling like a good high when the pain is good and I dont use drugs. I always looked very young for my age but after dealing with worsened pain with out medication I start looking 10 yeard older. My hope is going to the us getting a pain pump ik my spine as I feel is the only thing who works now is getting a decice inserted with surgery who is the only thing taking this type of nerve pain when it have gone to far. Is so bad i had developed tics and seazures. Luckely I get ambien from the dr now si i can sleep a little i could buy drugs my self but I just wont but is steessing when I dont take a ambien a night.

  • @__.__-_.
    @__.__-_. Рік тому

    ありがとうございます。生活の辛さで人生を自由なふうに送りがたいです。😢

  • @christinavaldez6276
    @christinavaldez6276 Рік тому

    Dr Tennant has helped me understand my life!!! 💜🦓

  • @christinavaldez6276
    @christinavaldez6276 Рік тому

    Dr T is still helping patients today with his foundation 💜

  • @Killmaisy
    @Killmaisy Рік тому

    ❤❤❤❤ Thank you, Dr. Tennant

  • @tallykaczynski3257
    @tallykaczynski3257 Рік тому

    Oxytocin!!! That’s it! I know it!

  • @tallykaczynski3257
    @tallykaczynski3257 Рік тому

    Where are all the doctors that think and speak like this man???? Most won’t even have a CONVERSATION about this topic!!!!

  • @KVX21
    @KVX21 Рік тому

    You have been real blessing for my challenges with systemic catastrophic late stage AA and I am forever grateful for your hard work compassion and just amazing man.

  • @elizabethferrari1346
    @elizabethferrari1346 Рік тому

    Enormous respect for Dr. Tennant.

  • @tommytwogloves16
    @tommytwogloves16 Рік тому

    I go to Italy and Colombia for my pain medicine. They don’t have an attitude towards opioids. Vietnam Veteran thrown off VA pain mngmnt. VA no longer treats intractable pain nor phantom pain. They offer ketamine. So do gay night clubs. Not my first choice!

  • @Theta-i1n
    @Theta-i1n Рік тому

    ♥♥♥♥♥

  • @brt-jn7kg
    @brt-jn7kg Рік тому

    What the DEA did with the Gestapo tactics to this man is a travesty. One of my friends committed suicide because dr. Tenant could not write her her pain medicine anymore and it was more than she could stand.

    • @SmartyPawz
      @SmartyPawz Рік тому

      My deepest sympathies for your friend… I understand all too well. For I too was one of his patients that he had to stop treating in 2016. I too, could not find another dr to manage my pain, went thru withdrawals, finally saw my prior neurologist who wrote me about 25% of the pain meds Dr. T had rx, up until a couple months ago, when the practice she is in insisted I become one of their “pain patients” and have told me that it will be gradual but since I am on “way too much pain meds” and “it is dangerous” I will be gradually tapered down as a courtesy to my neuro dr, they are not doing this immediately, “just gradually”. The DEA cost me a functioning life, my marriage of over 30 years, and I’m treated like criminal by my own drs at this point. My sister lives in CA, I live in the Midwest. She has cancer and so far I am unable to get out to see her, to be with her, bc I can not coordinate my meds and my care… have to see this new pain mgt dr every 2 months to be drug tested of course.I have never done a single illegal thing about these meds, followed every law, every rule, taken every insult and every abuse, and for what? STILL can not even be with my little sister when she could be dying? Everyone and anyone should be really afraid, because this could happen to YOU… to any law abiding US citizen, you are one genetic fault or car accident away from living MY life, and you should be very, very afraid over what our government did and is doing today.

  • @brt-jn7kg
    @brt-jn7kg Рік тому

    Chronic pain consumes you. It changes you you forget who you were before it and like a black hole it sucks the very life force from your soul

  • @e_advocating
    @e_advocating Рік тому

    Thank you so much for your campaigning Dr. Tennant!!!!

  • @loveusa56
    @loveusa56 2 роки тому

    How would one help spinal fluid flow when paralyzed below upper chest from high level spinal cord injury? Cannot walk, cannot sit in wheelchair to attend PT for water soaking. Cannot leave bed. I'd wager a high percentage of quadriplegics suffering with neuropathic pain have severe case of AA...

    • @ydrpmg1
      @ydrpmg1 2 роки тому

      I think you are right. The surgery that led to adhesive arachnoidiitis was done in 1980. It took till 2004 to get the right diagnosis from the MS clinic I was referred to for evaluation. The doctor took one look at the films and knew exactly what it is. The only specialist I would trust for this type of dx is a neurosurgeon. Mine got missed by too many medical professionals. I lived a busy, active life for many years before this caught up with me. Sorry to hear you are having such a bad time. The neuropathic pain is the worst part- like water torture.

  • @USAFmedicVET
    @USAFmedicVET 2 роки тому

    Fantastic information for #PAIN Patients! The problem is this is from 2014, prior to the #CDC creating #PrescriptionOpioidHysteria & DEA creating COWARDS out of doctors & criminals out patients with diseases that cause horrific PAIN! In addition to the high costs for these tests IF you can get a doctor to order them & have the knowledge to interpret & act on the results! A person who graduates last in medical school is still called Doctor & PAIN patients have seen EVERY ONE OF THEM in clinics, offices & ERs!

  • @tracieanderson835
    @tracieanderson835 2 роки тому

    I NEED HELP Unfortunately doctors are so uneducated in this field and probably many others I have no help. So where do you go for help? I ask you again where do you go for help do you go to the streets where it’s illegal? Where do I go for help I am worse than ever ever before if I was a.......... I would love to leave this world today. And I have a great life a lot to live for but nothing is great and joyful when you have absolutely unbearable pain every day of your life every hour every minute. There is no help I am a quarter of a century into this how much more can I take that’s what I asked myself every day. Please if you know anybody contact me leave a message here I beg of you! The whole opioid epidemic just about makes me want to......

  • @MsChronicTruth
    @MsChronicTruth 2 роки тому

    INFORMATION FROM DR. FOREST TENNANT WHO IS STILL WORKING IN RESEARCH & WRITING ARTICLES THAT HELP THE PAIN COMMUNITY, LONG AFTER HIS RETIREMENT: Please visit our websites for further information: • www.arachnoiditishope.com • www.intractablepainsyndrome.com Books by Dr. Forest Tennant Now Available on Amazon: • Handbook to Recognize Adhesive Arachnoiditis by MRI • Intractable Pain Patients Handbook for Survival • Handbook to Live Well with Adhesive Arachnoiditis •Adhesive Arachnoiditis: An Old Disease Re-emerges in Modern Times • The Strange Medical Saga of Howard Hughes • The Strange Medical Saga of Elvis Presley IMPORTANT: To build a better treatment program, review the "Letters" section on our websites.

  • @chaschk2
    @chaschk2 3 роки тому

    If one is a woman...you’re in pain.

  • @Friskyhorton
    @Friskyhorton 3 роки тому

    Might have to move to Mexico.

  • @3JsATA
    @3JsATA 5 років тому

    A good doctor who cares.

  • @whendis.roberts6817
    @whendis.roberts6817 5 років тому

    Dr. Tennant your AMAZING!!!! I need help!!!!! I have severe Adhesive Arachnoiditis fir almost 4 years now. About a month ago my right ankle swelled up and started giving out on me...burning and severe pain. Its swells uplike a grapefruit everyday and 5 days ago my left ankle started swelling up and burning and weakness and hurting and also my hips, back of my thighs and right knee is killing me. I had an E.M.G. done back in June and Dr.Wakeshima found that I have L-5 nerve root compression. I wanted to know what's compressing my L-5 and I researched all the words on Last M.R.I. done on June 4, 2019 and its Says Fat signal intensity in the Filum Terminal at L4-5-L5-S1- Fibrolipoma of the Filim Terminal- Which means tumor inside my spine and it's right where I have the nerve root compression. I'm having it removed soon. Within the next 10 days. If I can make it that long. I might end up having Emergency surgery on Wednesday September 11,2019. I am in so much pain and the swelling is horrendous. I need help. My idiot pain Management Moron NEVER TOLD ME I HAVE A SPINE CORD TUMOR. I'VE HAD IT ALL SUMMER AND HAVE HAD SYMPTOMS ON AND OFF OF SEVERE NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION. I PISHED TO HAVE THE M.R.I. DONE IN JUNE. SHE WOULDNT ORDER IT. SHE SAID THAT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT THE TEST I NEED THAT IT IT WONT HELP US FIND WHERE THE COMPRESSION IS COMING FROM. ITS THE ONLY 5HING THAT SHIWED US WHERE THE COMPRESSION IS COMING FROM. SHE ORDERED A PAINFUL E.M.G. .SHES A BITCH. EVERYTIME SONW5HINGA WRONG WITH ME SHE TELLS ME I NEED PAINFUL TEST. I ALSO HAVE SPINE FLUID FLOW PROBLEMS AND SHE SAID I NEED A SOUNAL TAP AND SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME...THATS 5HE LAST TEST ON THE LIST. I CAN GET A C.T. SCAN AND ITHER NON INVASIVE TESTS TO SHOW SOUNE FLUID FLIW PROBLEMS. SYRINGEMYELIA. IM SMART AND SHE HATES IT. SHE SAYS ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITIS DOESNT CAUSE NERVE ROOTS COMPRESSION. SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITIS. SHE HAS NO CLUE HOW TO TREAT ME. I LOOK UP MEDS AND QSK HER IF WE CAN TRY IT QND AHE WRITES THE PRESCRIPTIONS..THAT'S IT. SHES WEAK AND DOES NOT DO GOOD STRENGTH TESTS ON ME. I NEED HELP. THANK YOU..SINCERELY, WHENDI S.ROBERTS

  • @redinthethevalley
    @redinthethevalley 5 років тому

    Absolutely amazed! Definitely worth looking into! Thank you for sharing this information

  • @TakiANDisuaa
    @TakiANDisuaa 5 років тому

    Please i contact dr Forest tennant how i do

  • @starcolApryde
    @starcolApryde 5 років тому

    Dr. Tennant is a hero to many of us who are CPPs.

  • @rluc3634
    @rluc3634 5 років тому

    Please join Robert D Rose jr war vets class action suit called operation starburst.. Please join share n file to fight this abuse on pain patients

  • @rluc3634
    @rluc3634 5 років тому

    Thank you dr tennant. For your compassion and your expertise on this topic ...you're definitely an expert ..you are a smart man. These diseases are real n these politicians are playing doctor and playing with our lives. Much respect to you.

  • @mildredbradway1790
    @mildredbradway1790 5 років тому

    Why does Radio Freqency abbrasion in the knee dont help a failed total knee replacement with pain, swelling & Inflammation? But ibuprofen & mobic does. But yet I can't have either. Is that why they always blame it on fibromyalgia because they dont know why?

  • @humbleone6405
    @humbleone6405 6 років тому

    This is fairly new ...someone actually fighting the CDC .. cancer and chronic pain patients check this out. ua-cam.com/video/TX1CLnYQ8Fg/v-deo.html And this cergm.carter-brothers.com/ We need to fight the administration from tRump down for our rights as human beings being denied proper care.

  • @joycecrumley7077
    @joycecrumley7077 6 років тому

    20 states only have taken pills away from sick people. We need to vote our governor out. It's a state not government.

  • @IMSiegfried
    @IMSiegfried 6 років тому

    Now I know why a potent Lidocaine, ketamine topical cream no longer works for me on my foot pain.

  • @MonsterBuilt
    @MonsterBuilt 6 років тому

    What about Men in pain with the same issues? What is the difference? We are all part of the human race!

    • @nancybarnes8767
      @nancybarnes8767 Рік тому

      Your comment seems to say that you didn't really listen or understand this.

  • @bbruuse
    @bbruuse 6 років тому

    On Nov 22/2004 I suffered slip/fall. I was knocked unconscious, suffered fractured jaw, back, sacrum, coccyx. 2 X-Rays (Dec 2004) identified "Possible" spinal fractures. Everything possible was used by workers compensation to "DENY" medical investigation. I returned to emergency 5 times and was denied any investigation. - - 28 doctors / 2yrs. later my broken back was finally diagnosed. 5 Orthopedic surgeons / 3 neurosurgeons within a 3 yr. period Nov 2006 to Nov 2009 all refused investigation of specific complaint "Coccydynia" - "No Physical Examination - No MRI - No CT Scan, "t oOn Dec. 2 nd 2009 I was diagnsed with "Coccydynia" just like I had specifically complained. but was refused "ANY" investigation. Since becoming injured on the job in Saskatchewan Canada, "Everything / Anything" has been deliberately used by Workers Compensation" and their "Highly paid" contract doctors to Minimize the Severity of my workplace injuries. Even "Falsification of MRI scan results were used to state; "No Reason for PAIN Found" In Saskatchewan, Canada Workers Compensation is "ORGANIZED" Medical Insurance Fraud"= "Blatant Racketeering" Workers Compensation or WCB is a "Psychopathic Corporate Entity" in which WCB employees deliberately "Falsify" / "Fabricate" lies to "DENY" - :DENY" - "DENY"

  • @sammi-joreviews1135
    @sammi-joreviews1135 6 років тому

    My heart breaks upon hearing Dr. Tennant was forced to retire bc he actually worked AS A DOCTOR and TREATED the UNTREATED. Medicine has lost a great champion. While I understand his retiring & I hope Dr. Tennant & his wife enjoy his retirement years, it's also disheartening. It's my hope that he will continue to do research that benefits us though. This great man has more of an understanding of pain & how to get it under some semblance if not complete control than any other doctor in this country if not the world. Thank you for the many years of service Dr. Tennant. Question: Dr. Tennant talks about getting hormone levels under control. How does one do this post partial hysterectomy (uterus removed due to severe distention following 2 high risk pregnancies 10yrs apart in term) when doctors refuse to continue to prescribe hormones after finding cysts (in my case 3 benign cysts in 1 breast tho both w/fibrous tissue, one considerably worse than the other but still so bad it's not possible to catch cyst formations upon mammogram w/ultrasound) despite being benign after removal & testing following surgery (breast cyst removal surgery, in my case)? I'm told that adding hormones to my body will make me more apt to suffer w/further cyst development, particularly so for malignant cysts that could lead to needing more than surgical intervention. I went thru early menopause with several years taking hormone pill but after the 3 cysts were located & removed, I was immediately taken off hormone therapy & told I had to tolerate menopause the best way I could but it wouldn't be with hormone replacement therapy. I thought I had gotten thru the worst of the menopause but over the past year or so, particularly since the severe reduction of my pain medication which was adequately controlled more than a year ago, almost 2 now, the pain is considerably worse, my ability to walk has worsened as has the pain in both feet (feels like I'm walking on hard, sharp gravel that's leaving bruises & feels like the bones are busting thru the skin in shards) and excessive sweating these days. I mean the sweating has reached a point where my clothes are drenched in sweat & nothing I do stops it. I've even resorted to applying Secret antiperspirant under my arms, down the front vertically btw my breasts & under each one to get at least a small bit of relief from the just dripping sweat. And still, I feel like my hands & feet are in a meat locker. I'm told it's the result of Raynaud's syndrome but geez I wish they had something to help with it. I'm fighting kidneys that require medicine to keep them functioning & can't take Tylenol or NSAIDs, OTC or RX. My inflammation results in the autoimmune diseases blood tests are extraordinarily high but I can't take anything, or I'm not supposed to take anything b/c of the damages these do to my body. My doc is trying his best to keep up w/what I need but his hands are so tied it's ridiculous.

    • @IMSiegfried
      @IMSiegfried 6 років тому

      FYI, Nobody should take NSAIDS, Tylenol (causes bleed outs and does nothing for heart attacks) etc., on a regular basis.

  • @ThisAlphaWolf
    @ThisAlphaWolf 6 років тому

    Dr. Tennant had to retire when the DEA raided his office in an effort to scare any other doctors that might even think about helping people with their pain by prescribing pain medications. It wasn't that Dr. Tennant was over prescribing, it was that they wanted to scare the other doctors. Dr. T was intrumental in developing treatments plans for patients that had complex medical needs. He usually started by ordering a genetics screening to be done so he could individualize the plan to treat the person discovering the best way to treat them by utilizing tools that many doctors overlook or ignore. He did so successfully, identifying evidence based options. He recognized that some people metabolize medications faster or slower, that the alteration or deletion of certain genes interfered with the way a person might process medications and he developed ways to identify conditions like centralization of pain. He was a medical genius and his methods of diagnosis and successful treatment of chronic pain patients made him a prime target because they contradict the misinformation being doled out to the public and our healthcare system employees. They thought if they could take him down, discredit him with lies and send a message to the other doctors that might have compassion for their patients, that they could further their own agenda with much more ease. Unfortunately, they were correct. It worked. So now we have lost one of the few doctors in this country that had courage to stand behind his convictions. What he signed up for, when he became a doctor, was clearly to help ill people. It's a scary, sick, sad world that we live in when things like this happen to good doctors and patients that suffer from pain that they didn't ask for, nor do they want. It's cruel and inhumane. Yet, they call it the war on addiction. The war on opioids. Those things sound really good to the public, it helps to smooth over the hushed genocide of those that suffer chronic pain every day of their lives. I personally think they would have taken the medications away from cancer patients as well if they thought they could get by with it. I already know 3, with terminal cancer, that have been denied pain control as it is. They look the other way when a doctor colors outside the lines, as long as they are doing so in compliance with their agenda, because if a doctor has the audacity to defy them, they attack. When the dust settles and people realize what has been done, they'll issue a public apology to all those that lost their loved ones unnecessarily. Those that were victimized simply for having chronic pain. Those that either went to the street, had a major health event due to uncontrolled pain or committed suicide to end their own suffering. Then they'll move on to the next phase of cutting the 'dead weight' from the system. Probably Social Security, but not before demolishing and revamping the healthcare industry to run more effiently, in regards to money, by latching on to control over other medications that are vital to the health and wellness of other patient populations. Like antibiotics, antianxiety meds and antidepressants. It's unlikely they will stop there, however. This is not a war on addiction, it's a mass system overhaul. It's a genocide. It's everything but what they are telling people it is. How do I know? I'm on the front lines of their war. By the time their done with me, I'll probably be a casulty. Unintended consequences with collateral damage. That's what are. Not human beings that have pain and suffer because that would make them the bad guys, now wouldn't it? People need to wake up. This is only the beginning. If we say nothing, we get nothing and we lose everything.

    • @ThisAlphaWolf
      @ThisAlphaWolf 6 років тому

      Their solutions, recommendations, suggested alternatives, whatever you want to call them are nothing new for the majority of chronic pain patients. They didn't stumble upon the answer to treating chronic pain that doctors have overlooked because they went right for their prescription pads instead. The plain and simple truth is that most chronic pain patients either tried these 'recommended' treatments BEFORE opioids therapy or they use them in conjunction WITH opioid therapy. In other words, they've either failed trouble provide adequate and acceptable relief so the patient moved on to the next logical step or they provide a modecum of relief when used along with opioid therapy. Lose weight, exercise, do yoga, have acupuncture, take vitamins, take OTC medications, practice mindfulness, do CBT, have biofeedback, use OTC creams and "pain" patches, do physical therapy, go to the chiropractor, meditate, take a hot bath or shower, use a heating pad, use a cold pack, do stretches, eat healthier, get good sleep, if you can't sleep use meltaonin, have a massage, use an inversion table, do the hokey pokey, pat your tummy and head at the same time, touch your tongue to your elbow. Okay, not those last 3 but they might as well be included. It's just frustrating because as a pain patient, the likelihood that you either tried these things and they failed to provide relief before you talked to your doctor and probably had to be convinced to try pain medications which most likely were like the difference between night and day in relief of excruciating, unrelenting pain, is pretty decently high. Many chronic pain patients use these therapies along with their medications and have already discovered what worked for them. Then they take away the medication, that provided the stable base for their relief and now they're left with nothing but fluff. Oh yeah and don't forget the best advice that we have gotten from the infamous Mr. Kolodny. Learn to just get over it and live with it. I could have gotten better advice from a group of grade school children, than anything that has come from PROP.

    • @IMSiegfried
      @IMSiegfried 6 років тому

      I just call it the war on chronic pain patients.

    • @LDuke-pc7kq
      @LDuke-pc7kq 5 років тому

      Join us at The Insufferable Movement on Facebook!

    • @kathyspain7944
      @kathyspain7944 3 роки тому

      They don't want to allow Fibromyalgia patients pain medication. They want to invent nasty drugs to use on them until a lawsuit is needed and then invent another. If they do what doctor tennant found they can't make money off of us.

    • @ThisAlphaWolf
      @ThisAlphaWolf 3 роки тому

      @@kathyspain7944 Oh boy, do I know it.