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A Dr said he could not see, measure, or prescribe for pain because it is invisible. Wrong, Doc, pain looks like me & millions more who die if u are blind. #IPP

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My pain triggered another epidode of tachycardia a few hours ago. It was 160 and climbing, but I managed to get it converted back to normal although I was seconds away from passing out. Next time I will try taking pain meds to see if that helps, but at that point I don’t think

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I woke up in severe pain and full blown tachycardia. The way I was gasping for air made me realize that my heart was not funtioning well enough as a pump to move enough oxygenated blood to do any good. I placed my finger on my carotid artery to measure my pulse but I could not

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My pudendal nerve block and several other procedures will be done in the hospital under anesthesia next week. The pre-op nurse called to prepare me a few days ago with questions such as: did any member of my family experience sudden death during such procedures before? I replied

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The hospital and the staff were really great today for my pudendal nerve block. I go there so often that the nurses remembered me. There was no reason for my being so anxious about the procedure nor being put to sleep, but the one thing I was right about was that I woke up in

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I am not sure how long (Usually a month or two) the slight reduction in chronic, severe pain which is the result of my pudendal nerve blocks will last, but any improvement is much appreciated and very helpful. When chronic, severe pain is controlled either by medical procedures

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For some unknown reason my Doctor who does my pudendal nerve blocks wishes to stop doing them. On my next appointment I will try to get him to share his reasons with me. If he actually stops doing them that will make me totally dependent on receiving an adequate dose of

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The pain clinic I was referred to several years ago never Rx’ed opioids no matter how severe the patients’ pain. I discovered this on my first appointment there. The nurse came in with six very large prefilled syringes on a tray. I asked what those large syringes were for. She

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I had not taken quite the dose needed of my Rx pain meds to control my severe, pudendal nerve pain when I was at the gym Saturday, but I had hoped I could tolerate the pain long enough to do some exercises. I thought I was handling it well until I was struggling to breathe, and

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Reduction in pain is the key. If pain can be reduced enough then near full function can be restored because we are able to do all or near all of the things we were able to do before under treated chronic, severe pain took our normal lives away from us. Unfortunately we realize

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When I was 15 years old I hit the back of a stopped car at 40 plus MPH on a Honda 65 motorcycle. I only saw the car for an instant because I had looked behind me to check the traffic so that I could change lanes. The impact whipped me into the car’s rear, steel bumper as the

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Actually as I think back on my heart attack which occurred several years ago I realize that I died in the emergency room. My wife described to me what happened when I los t consciousness as she was there watching. The doctor and nurses went to work as quickly as I passed out

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Joe Newman Absolutely the stress from untreated pain can trigger heart attacks! PROP and all associated need to be held accountable!! 🥹❤️

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Today is an example of what chronic, severe pain can be like for those who are fortunate enough to never have experienced it for themselves. If you are very lucky this will never happen to you, but do realize that it does happen to many people who could use your help and

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What I want for chronic pain patients is very simple, and I do not think it is too much to ask. I want us all to have as near normal a life as modern medical procedures and medications can provide, but for this to happen something must be done to control the chronic, severe pain

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At my recent Doctor appointment my physician who tries to control my pudendal nerve pain with medication discovered that every six months or so I end up in the hospital where opioid meds are administered by my urologist. Perhaps he was concerned that I was trying to find an

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At the gym today my under treated chronic severe pain caused my heart to lapse into tachycardia. Before I realized I was in trouble I felt my severe pain cause a reaction in my heart. I was very near passing out when I checked my pulse rate to find it was near two hundred

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I am not the bravest person in the world, but I am also not the most easily shaken. Yesterday’s episode of tachycardia caused by under treated chronic, severe pain did shake me up. As it extended longer than I have seen before, and I began to have difficulty breathing along