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Re: Elisa ~ questions about the pain clinic / Anyone know any good books on forgiveness?
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Jul 8 09:33:46 2006
One book that has helped me has been Louise L. Hay, "You can heal your
life." This book might really make some people angry because she
believes that we create our lives, which includes the endo. (she
doesn't mention endo specifically, but she had cancer and she was able
to heal herself). I had a hard time with that concept for a really long
time. But after everything I have been through, you do get to a point
where you have to learn to forgive because if you don't it only hurts
you and can actually cause more disease. If you find this book
offensive, you try at the library and look for other books on
forgiveness. One of the biggest lessons I have had to learn is to
forgive and let go because if I didn't I was hurting myself more.
I hope this helps.
At Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Jenny wrote:
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>Hi, I was curious about a couple of things. I don't need a pain clinic
>right now because I'm feeling better, but that was going to be my next
>stop if acupuncture didn't work.
>
>How much does the pain clinic cost? I heard that it was fairly
>expensive. Also, what alternative methods did they try on you? Do they
>do other things for you besides prescribing pain killers? I like the
>idea of signing something to take responsibility for taking pain meds
>that some of us so desparately need.
>
>A doctor from last year made me feel like a great, big, fat piece of
>crap by giving me an extremley hard time about my Vicodin usage. She
>left the room during my last visit to ask her collegue what he
>prescribes and how much of it for endo patients. She came back to tell
>me how he prescribes 15 a month. I said then his paitients don't have
>cronic pelvic pain every single day. After my appointment, when I was
>paying the bill I saw her and the other doctor talking in hushed tones,
>looking at me, and my doc was shaking her head. (About 4 months later I
>had another lap with a new doctor that showed no endo this time, but
>there was massive scar tissue joining my ovary to my bowel and bladder,
>believed to be from that last doctor's lap on me from 6 months earlier.)
>:(
>
>I know I just got off on a tangent about that; it is really hard for me
>to let go of my anger. I need to work on forgiveness and it's so hard
>to break through that wall within myself. I am feeling better with the
>cramps, but I have a lot of anger at: proffesionals who didn't take me
>seriously about the pain for almost 20 years, previous employers and
>teachers who just thought I was trying to get a few days off, friends
>who made tons of PMS jokes about me and thought I was just making a big
>deal about my period, and even myself for not being stronger and
>standing up for myself.
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>~Jenny with issues
>
>P.S. Yesterday I started my period and I've taken nothing, not even
>Advil, because I feel pretty good. I think the last time I had a period
>with no pain meds was during the Reagan administration.
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