Welcome to the Pain management community!

[sandee1818]

Welcome to the Pain Management forum!  We are so glad you joined our community:)

If you or a loved one has experienced pain of any kind that has affected your life you've found the right place.

You'll find we are very supportive and caring and understand how pain can affect every aspect of our lives. We understand you may be shy to make that first post as pain can affect us in such personal ways, that's ok- But keep in mind that no question is too silly or strange!

Please feel free to look around the forum and get to know the options you have on your personal profile.

There is an option to view the 'community archives' located next to the green 'post a question' button. In it you will find the forum’s past questions and posts regarding the treatment of Chronic Pain and some of the possible treatments you may have had or would like to learn more about. There is also the 'health pages' option in the upper right corner of the forum. You will find some great information on symptoms and the different options available to treat your pain.

You have many options on your personal profile. You can 'add' friends, send 'private messages' and post 'notes' to the other members of MedHelp, as well as add Trackers as they become available! You'll also find you have a 'Journal' on your profile. You can write anything you like in your journal and chose to make it public for any other MedHelp member to see, allow only your friends to view it or keep it private for only you.
You may also want to fill out a little bit of information about yourself on your personal profile so we can all get to know more about you as you post and comment in the community.

We're so glad you have found Med help's pain management community and really look forward to getting to know you better, and learn how your pain has affected you and your quality of life.

We want to make sure this community is as helpful and supportive as can be. So If you ever have any ideas or comments on how this community can offer even more help and support, please feel free to message us at any time and we'll do all we can to make it happen!

The pain management community is very special and important to not nly us, but to the other members.  We welcome you to post your questions as well as offer any help and support you can to others here. We all deal with pain and ,of course , the issues involved with living with pain daily and we all have different ways of dealing with it. That makes us all well experienced in the things we must deal with day in day out and your experiences and knowledge will help members here that are new to this so we  encourage you to share your knowledge as we are sure it will help someone else.

Also tell your friends or loved ones about our community here. The more members we have the more support, advice and knowledge we have in our community and it will benefit everyone for the community to grow.

When you see a new member has joined feel free to send them a welcome note or message.

Sandee1818 & Tuckamore
Your Community Leaders

[Tuckamore]

Welcome to our Community. I am so very glad that you have joined us. If you find nothing here but support and encouragement I hope you will find joining our community is well worth your time. I know I have.

Feel free to post if you haven't already. We'll look forward to getting to know you. If you have any questions as you navigate this site please feel free to ask me.

If you would like to send me a PM anytime also feel free to do so. You are so welcome here.

Tuck

[Kazumi]

thank you. I am new to Medhelp and even newer to this community. The fact is that I've been struggling with pain since about a year ago, mostly in head, chest and legs. Nothing seems to help me so far, just thought i'd join this community as we all feel the same here...thank you for any support, hope that together we'll try to get some answers as well as some help.

[sandee1818]

Hi Maureen,
  I am so very happy to hear your son is doing better and appreciate the update very much:)
So many times we never get an update on how a person is doing so it is very nice that you took the time to let us know how he is doing.
Of course I hope his treatment keeps going well and if you have any questions or just would like to talk we are all here for you:)

[Maureen16]

Hello again.  I had posted on my college-age son who was diagnosed with spinal stenosis.  Just today he had a s.i. injection and then we went to a chiropractor who realigned his hips and did deep heat massage.  He was put on lyrica and is still taking vicadin for pain.  The lyrica is helping with the nerve pain in the leg.  Being 22 years old, he just wants everything to "return to normal."  I don't think one chiropractic adjustment is going to work but we need to work with the pain management specialist.  I said I would write back after that visit and here it is.  He is feeling a little better, definitely standing taller and straighter, but I think snowboarding in two weeks is out of the question.

[sandee1818]

Hi Rev,
I am so glad you found us:)
We all suffer from chronic pain here and we all support one another and many of us here have become great friends as well.
As you know dealing with chronic pain is very difficult and we need all the support we can get.
We look forward to getting to know you and hope you find the community as great as we all have.

[Revcharberry]

I am called Rev. (short for Reverend) and I am just joining.  I am a former teacher, mother of 4 deceased children with my 18 year old son being run over by a truck and kileed as he was riding his bike home from church last year.  I have been married for 27 years to a wonderful man of God and live alone becuse my husband is out in the missions field winning souls to Christ, we usually do it together but I am too ill to travel.  I have people who have keys and come check on me quite often.  I like to read, write and talk about God.  Now as to why I'm posting on this forum;I suffer from osteo and rheum. arthritis,Diabetes and diabetic nerve pain, fibromyalgia,chronic fatigue and God knows what else.  I take 17 different meds everyday, from percs. to vit. D, fromambien and ativan to flexeril and neurontin.  I found this site medhelp because I thought I was experiencing withdrawal from percocet so I googled percocet withdrawal and this website is one that popped up.  I was on the addiction page and for 3 days they got me through with their kind words of encouragemnent and support as I was in withdrawal and it was because doc. trying Nucynta because the perc dosage stoppped being adequate.  The Nucynta did not work and before I knew it in the wee hours Sat.   I was having hallucinations, I thought I was dead and I was upset because I couldn't clean kitchen and if one came to get my body  I'd be judged, I was trying to figure out how to get my leg over my balcony railing so I could fly.  Now that's not all but it all happened because I was trying to wean off of percs as I didnt want to be an addict.  The people at the addictions forum were so!!!supportive and basicallly told me that I have not been abusing them but my body needs them to deal with my chronic pain. One member told me about this forum and boy am I happy,  I will periodically check in with them because even though it was only 4 days it feels like we've been friends for a very long time. I'm glad to be a part of this forum and look forward to new friendships. Rev.