I can only tell you what has worked for me and others, that I have

The first and formost is to accept that this is the way

things are. There are things you can do to help control the pain but you will always have some pain. Learning to accept this fate is the most difficult of all to do. It wasn't until about 6-7 years ago that I finally accepted it and started getting on with my life. One of the things I do is to write these pages, in the hopes of helping somebody else.

I also write to help deal with frustration, this was

something a psychiologist suggested to get things off my chest. I am one of the lucky ones that was given the gift of poetry. I write and it comes out in poetic form. You can read some of my poetry on my poetry pages. You do not have to be a poet for writing to help you. It is getting rid of the negative feeling and replacing them with positive feelings that helps.

I am finally with a good pain clinic. The doctors there are very caring

and seem to really understand chronic pain and the suffering we go through. They don't rush in and out on you like you are just a fleeting moment for them. They take time to really find out what is going on and what the best treatment path might be. I am now on pain medication that has my pain under reasonable control.

There is documentation

after documentation about the use of opiates for chronic pain. People with chronic pain are not likely to become addicted to these medications. The studies have shown that people with chronic pain just want their pain under control. They take what they need to control the pain and thats it. I am on Methadone now. Yes, I used to be afraid of using it. After all it was used to get people off of drug. And yes I had a doctor tell me I was an addict when I was just looking for control of my pain. Luckily I now have a very good Doctor who expained how it worked and the success they were having with chronic pain..He also explained to me the difference between being a drug addict and being addicted to a narcotic drug. Now this comes from one of my doctors at My pain clinic in Arizona. Drug addict or Psychological addiction is when somebody is using above and beyond the amount needed for pain. They are needing the high, they constantly run out of their control meds too soon, and seek drugs from everywhere they can. Physical addiction is what somebody on regularly prescribed pain medication (like those of us in chronic pain). Narcotics are physically addicting you have to be weaned off , if you are out of medications you will have some withdrawel symptoms. This is normal! So don't let some doc overprotective of his license and not protective of your welbeing treat you like a skid row bum!

I still have my good and bad days . But, life is much more tolerable. With some of the new treatments and

procedures they have now. We have many more choices and safer things to try in controling our pain. Take care and feel better O;-)

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Click here: Chronic Pain Information Network

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