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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Navigating The Long Road To Chronic Pain Diagnosis

Suffering for over six years with widespread, unidentifiable pain and fatigue is a test of patience. For me, the answer came years after seeing dozens of doctors shrug their shoulders at my condition or say I was in excellent health since I looked well.

After enduring endless exams, rounds of blood drawing, body and brain scans, all for no diagnosis at all, I was determined to get answers somewhere else and that's what landed me mid-country. I finally found my diagnosis in the Midwest, thousands of miles away from my home in Massachusetts.

4 comments:

  1. My daily medical marijuana will pull me thru.

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  2. I definitely think I can fall under this diagnosis, I am 23 and it is tough to get out of be din the morning when it comes to actually moving around. My back, joints, and head hurt most of the time and I always feel tired. Wait maybe thats because I do the same thing that 95% of american's do everyday that are employed, go to work.

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  3. 95% of american's do everyday that are employed, go to work.

    November 22, 2011 3:48 PM

    Your age would explain your ignorance.

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  4. Please don't make light of this article. This is no laughing matter. I have been diagnosed with Lyme disease but still suffer with symptoms even though I am somewhat improved. I have spent almost 100,000 dollars trying to find out what is wrong with me and on medications that sometimes work, sometimes don't. I have thrown many of them away after finding they did not work for me. I see myself in this article. I have been talked about by co-worker, family and ex-friend, questioning my sanity.

    So, don't judge until you have walking in my shoes. I would not wish in resolved chronic pain on anyone.

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