What can you do when your doctor won’t look past a previous diagnosis? This is ESPECIALLY common (and sometimes detrimental) in cases of diagnoses involving mental illness or emotional distress, like Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Somataform Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia. This can be frustrating because a patient may have their concerns of pain passed off […]
Read More »Written with Cassandra Russom In a moment of frustration I posted this on my Facebook page dedicated to Chronic Pain, Tracy Rydzy- Oh What a Pain: Sometimes I wonder, when something comes up that is difficult to accept or hurtful or upsetting because of living with chronic pain, do people try to be jerks about […]
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In the past 2 years I have had the misfortune of dealing with doctors who have left me feeling like a drug addict trying to get my fix due to the stigma attached to taking opioids for pain. I have felt the judgment, been grilled by pain management doctors about my behavior and use […]
“Thank You.” Why is that so hard to say? Why is a compliment so hard to accept? I have never been great at taking a compliment, but since my surgeries, I am even less able to simply say, “Thank you.” I have difficulty taking credit for my accomplishments and yet find it astonishingly easy to […]
