@jen you are absolutely right if you don't tell the Dr. how you feel ,he can't help you.

Jen
Very well put. We need to be advocates for ourselves or things will never get done the way they need to.
Docs are not mind readers. And when we don't feel better or we don't get what we think we need, we blame the doctor. So not true.

So tell the docs everything, no matter if you think he/she will get annoyed or you embarrassed!

Here's to a pain free day for us all!
ronnie

@sandytoes14 those trigger point injections are wonderful!!! I had them on Tuesday-gee that was yesterday!!!! the relief is immediate!!! So glad to hear it helped you!!!

@parus I am pleasantly surprised how much relief I got from the trigger point injection. I just wish I knew why I have a hard time speaking up about pain. Ask my friends and family-- While I'm not a "big mouth" I voice my concerns etc. Do you or @grandmar have any thoughts on why we as women tend to do this?

I have my personal thoughts on this topic.
I believe that we as women are trained not to complain about ourselves.
As mothers and wives, we will go without so that our children and husbands will have.
We will not complain that we are going without because it is our 'job' to make sure they get first.
At our jobs, if we voice our concerns or complain, we are trouble makers, wimps and 'bitches.'
So when we go to the doctor, we will often downplay what is happening. If, however, we take our children to the doctor, we will go with notes and lists of things to discuss.
Nature or nurture?
I don't know.
ronnie

I am getting some sort of shots. I have a feeling they are giving me what I call amnesia drug. My son has to be there with me. I know he talk about trigger, but not this upcoming visit.

As for me, I will have a good when I see doctor. Might as well go home. Next day I am miserable again.

Hi everyone. We've been on vacation and then we all got sick and had to go to the doctor after we got home. I have missed you all and hope to get caught up with everyone over the weekend. I have learned that our society wants us to down play any negativity, including the facts about whatever is wrong with us. When we go to the doctor, I have found that it is best to be straight forward and just tell it like it is. I downplayed everything for years, and that's how I got to be so sick. Doctor's can't make a correct diagnosis if they don't really know what is going on with us. it is not complaining to tell the truth. We need to love ourselves and take good care of ourselves.

@oregongirl That was what the Dr. gave me I had to have my friend with me it was like I was in a fog, very lightheaded.Is this how you felt with it ?

I have tried some shots, when the pain was absolutely unbearable. They worked beautifully, for about two days. Then everything just dropped off the cliff, like Wiley Coyote. So disappointing. My friend has had them multiple times and they worked great for him/ However, he has had to have surgeries and procedures. Some worked for awhile, others not at all. Our responses to all these things seem to run the gamut of what is possible. Perhaps one day, science will have advanced to the point that we will be able to predict by using our DNA what will work, and what won't. Thus sparing us years of suffering. Oh, wait.....they have that now! To a certain extent anyway. it is not in common practice yet. But one day, hopefully, it will be. Until then, dear ones, we must keep a handy list in our heads of what helps with stress relief ( as stress does indeed, make it worse), what makes us happy, and what motivates us. We need to build in space in each day for just relaxing, just being still. Nor worries, just being. And being grateful. Some call that meditation or prayer. OK, my time is nearing to a close here....the household is waking up. Talk to you later, I hope. Blessings, MamacitaLucita.