I am starting a new Post to welcome T-Pain to our forum

Tiffany I copied your post that you made in LexiRae's thread and am starting a new thread for you here. I think you will find a much better response and people welcoming you!

Hello everyone. My name is Tiffany and I am new here. I am not new to pain, but my depression as got the better of me today and I thought that maybe reaching out to others who understand is a good way to just get my feelings out. Helping others is also a good way to get out of myself, so I hope I can give some sort of support to the best of my ability.

I had an emergency surgery back in 2003 and have not been the same since. I had a great job, living in san Francisco and had just an amazing life. Now I live in a pretty isolated place in Oregon with my mother now for 6 years. My family Nd friends keep me going and if it weren't for them, I would have taken an exit long ago.

I am sure you all have been to endless doctors, tried so many different meds, treatments, spend several thousands of dollars on treatments, etc. just the thought of where I have been boggles my mind. After 8 surgeries! I did try one thing that did work. I have nerve pain in my lower abdomin and now my pain is spreading, but after using the Calmare machine, I felt so much better. I had 10 treatments in CT, which is far from me and now I am trying to get a dr here in southern Oregon to buy one. After your 10 sessions, it is imperative to go back and do booster treatments. Right now traveling is too hard on me and I can't afford to travel, so i am back in terrible pain. If you are interested, please go to the web site to see if there is a machine near you. There is now a billing code for it for insurance purposes, it is FDA approved and the military just bought 6 for our vets.http://www.calmarett.com/

I am not trying to sell you anything, I am just reaching out to those in pain and trying to help whomever I can.

Thank you for having this site. I really feel for everyone in pain. We are a large, but rare group of people.

Sincerely,
Tiffany

Dear white beard,

Thank you so much for welcoming into your pain forum. To answer your questions; I had an ectopic pregnancy rupture ths had the emergency surgery. Since then, I have had 7 surgeries to try to correct the pain. I have had spinal injections, pt, laser therapy, hypnosis, you name it, I have tried it. Doctors still don't know what is going on. I just found out that I have osteoarthritis so that does not help. Then out of nowhere, a year ago, my left arm started to hurt and is getting worse. So aside from my initial pain, which I think is nerve damage, other things are starting to arise.

I don't know how much longer I can wake up in pain on a daily basis. I am secluded and feel that I am losing my youth to this burden. I started to look for a new therapist today, but I have kind of lost faith in them after seeing so many.

Thank you so much for listening. I don't want to feel like a complainer, so I came here to vent a little bc I know for a fact that people like yourself, will understand.

What do you do to cope; physically and mentally? Sounds like you have so much pain, from what I have read on your post. Any insight would be most appreciated.

Sincerely,
Tiffany

Jane,
Thank you very much. I appreciate your kind words.
Best regards, Tiffany

Hi Tiffany This is a great place to come and especially if your alone or and secluded, and need company and or to vent your frustrations, with having chronic pain. Tiffany when your here your not alone! You have many others here that do understand what it is like to live with chronic pain, we will listen and be here for you! I think you will find that we are kind of like family here and we do care about each other!

 

Tiffany have you had any testing  done to find out what is causing your left arm pain? There could be many causes for it, but I would think an MRI of your cervical spine would be a good start, allot of arm pain can be caused by a compressed nerve in the neck. So it definitely should be checked out!

 

Tiffany I see a spinal pain management doctor for my chronic pain. Seeing him has helped me a great deal, besides prescribing me my pain meds, he also gives me epidural spinal injections, and orders MRI exams, and has referred me to neurologist and neurosurgeons, ( heck he even gave me a referral to a counselor when I was going through my divorce!) I have had two surgeries in my neck since I started seeing him, and am seeing another neurosurgeon right now to see about having more surgery done on my lower back! During all this time I also had went through a divorce after 36 years of marriage, and I then started going to a counselor to help me cope with getting through the divorce and also coping with my pain issues. But to be completely honest , during the last few years, getting my divorce and the major surgeries on my neck, I was introduced to this web site ( Healing Well and the Chronic Pain Forum) and beleive it or not, it is the kind, compassionate, and caring folks right here on the forum, that have actually helped me the most! Being alone with no family close by, these folks here, listened to me and was there for me, during this very difficult time! They are the ones that got me through it all!  Allot of people on this forum actually become rather close friends,  some even get to meet each other in person!  But most of all they all care and listen  and can empathize with you! So you asked me how I cope? I hope this has answered that question??? I do like every one else I guess, we all just do the best we can, and with the help and support of each other, we just muddle through it every day!

 

I do wish you well Tiffany!

 

White Beard