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Hi @TAB

That kind of medication can make the pain easier to live with - and give us quality of life - but they can't give people enough to take the pain away entirely - that kind of medication is something our bodies get used to - so we need break-through medication at times - but I am nearly always uncomfortable - but that's not the same as the screaming pain that can happen if I get some kind of jolt

But that's why we need pain clinics - with specialists who monitor the pain and the medication

It's a tricky path

Dec

Hi @Former-Member

How do we monitor pain? Sticky question - ah - they ask

"Where on a scale of 1 - 10 is your pain atm?"

And what the %&$( does that mean?

D'uh - for some people 8 might mean admission to hospital in an ambulance with IV medication and sirens even - instant attention in resus - a private room in a public hospital and lots of tablets and injections and attention with people constantly asking that question looking worried

In other cases and 8 will get you one tablet of a very ordinary nature

But I guess they have to find some way of working it out

I don't know about hypochondriacs - hell - what does that mean even?

Okay - I have a dictionary and guess what it means - of course- the obvious - abnormal concern for one's health but the word comes from the Late Latin "abdomen" supposedly the seat of melancholy and I could go on about the meaning of melancholy too - but oh my - it all comes around to a problem that galls me - our insides are out of whack and I could be humourous about the subject - or satirical - or even sarcastic - but people who are ill and no one can work out why are put in the too hard basket and given rude names and treated than "less than"

I guess that rings bells

And yes @Former-Member and @TAB - we can have tests done for free in a public hospital but we have to wait for years for that sometimes - the torn tendons in my right shoulder healed up in the 9 months I was waiting to see the surgeon and it would be a year since I tore them before I would be admitted for day surgery - really - waiting a year before part of a day in a public hospital -

I didn't have the surgery

A neighbour died waiting for surgery in a public hospital - now that is really sad

Dec