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Re: Pain Management?From: Kristy (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed Oct 30 00:29:49 2002
Sheila, Let her know yet again that you aren't interested in Pain Management and that all you want is a hysterectomy. If she still doesn't want to do it then find another dr. Funny that you should ask about the results of Pain Management drs and a friend and I found out about 2 years ago that most Pain Management drs don't know how to treat the pain that is related to chronic pain that comes from endo. There are some that do but they are very hard to find. My friend wrote a letter to the Academy of Pain Management and the lady up there confirmed that Pain Management drs don't have the know-how to treat the chronic pain that comes with Endo. One would think that b/c they are Pain Management specialists that they would know how to treat the pain that comes with Endo but that's not true. The field on the whole considers Endo to just be menstrual cramps and that's all. The reason it would seem like they should be able to know how to handle the pain that comes with endo is b/c they know how to treat chronic pain in general. I had to find out first-hand that the kind of illness one has determines whether or not the Pain Management dr will help take care of your problem. I had done some research in my area to find out if there was a Pain Management dr that could treat the issue of chronic pain related to endo and one of my other female problems. When I asked them they said, "Huh?" (a few of them did any way). When I had gone to PM for a problem that wasn't gyn related in the late 90s I figured I would see if I could get this dr to possibly help me with my female problems too. So when I saw him after my last surgery in 1999 I showed him the pics from that surgery and he looked at them like he wasn't sure of what they were so I had to explain them to him. After I thought about that interchange I thought it kind of odd that he had never worked with patients with these kind of problems. Shortly thereafter I started finding out what I know now. Other women have told me their stories with Pain Management and one girl told me that the PM dr even told her that her gyn should have never sent her there. With the PCP I have now when I first started seeing her I told her about what had happened with what I found out about Pain Management drs and boy did she ever agree with me. I hope that some day that more drs in that field will take Endo and other female issues seriously instead of just shrugging us off and acting as if we are crazy. Feel free to e-mail me privately and I wish you all the best with everything. Take care, ===== Kristy :) http://www.geocities.com/sokokl/kristyspersonalpage.html I am a Medical Secretary who does a lot of learning from reading on the Net, books, my dr(s), as well as sharing my own personal experiences. HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now
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