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February 28, 2005

Fibromyalgia & pain medication

Hello. I have a question. How many people out here do not take pain medication for their pain? I have been told by many doctors that eventualy I will be off of my pain medication and will not need to take any pain medication "EVER".

I seem to feel different about this. The reasons are simple. 1) None of my doctors suffer from fibromyalgia. 2) Many doctors don't even believe that fibromyalgia is a real illness. They think it is all in my head. I have to battle the doctors every time I go. I have this one doctor (she will remain nameless ) who is very cold, hard, and mean to me. She does not want to give me pain medications and she believes all I have to do are these leg excercises and I will be better then new! She is my pain doctor and she is the one that prescribes me the medication that I take. She always underprescribes and dares me to ask her for more.

I feel that as a black women that needs to take pain medication everyone involved gets nervous: the doctors, the pharmacy. The nature of my illness' are "PAIN". I am not an addict. I am just someone who wants to be able to get up in the morning and make my daughter breakfast, take her to the park and run around. I want to be able to drive my car without being in pain, and most important I just want to be able to "feel alive" again. This illness has taken so much from me and I intend to "fight it". I will not take "NO" for an answer. So if you want to say I'm an "ADDICT" then yes, I'm an addict of a pain free life. I'm an addict of being able to play with my daughter, making a living for myself and daughter (right now I'm unable to work). Yes, I'm an addict of being whole again. That is what I want. I will beat this!

Please stay encouraged!
Talk to you soon.

Peace, love and happiness!

Posted by Keeon Williams at 9:31 AM | Comments (480)