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Anyone else feel Isolated and not go out due to chronic pain?
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Hi, I totally understand! Chronic back pain has robbed me of any happiness or joy I feel anymore and stolen my life, my career , and my self worth. I can hardly ever socialize due to chronic pain, I barely ever leave the house unless I have to. I have been through hell with no end in sight. Hundreds of cortisone shots, a failed nerve, a temporary spinal cord stimulator, waiting for the permanent one to be put in. All the doctors say “ I can’t even imagine the pain you are living with” and yet being that I live in NY, they do not give out any sort of pain medication that will work due to the possibility of addiction although I’ve never had any kind of addiction issue! I’m struggling so much and this isn’t a life, this is hell and I don’t no how much longer I can keep dealing with it
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@jerila I’m right here with you, although in Chicago, I see a pain specialist who gives me Norco for 5 years. It’s to a point where it’s starting to stop working. I try not to take the amount that he gives me. I’m given 5 a day. I started taking 3 a day with no neuropathy. Now I have been taking 4 a day and gabapentin for neuropathy. That lasted a couple years. Now that’s not working. I take antidepressants because I was told these conditions go hand and hand. I force myself doing the things that I have to do. This is not a life. I see him in a month. I wonder if the Mayo Clinic is the best route.