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Pain: How can I find the underlying cause?
Hello my name is Suzette and I am new here, I don’t know if anyone is going through what am going through but I just need a little help. I have been going to doctors after doctors and no help, I have been living with pain for years and no doctor can’t fine what seems to be the cause of the pains one doctor say it’s fibromyalgia and she sent me to a specialist and she say I have Sjögren’s syndrome and she have me on all these meds but she did not do any test to confirm so I decide to get a second opinion and that's when I found out I don’t have Sjögren’s but the next doctor did blood works and he said a lot of inflammation is in my blood but he only say it can be from a cold to cancer and 300 other different things in between and am tired of going to doctors after doctors and no help in sight. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Have you ever visited a doctor specialized in pain treatment. A specialized pain doctor worked with me until he pinpointed my problem, and successfully treated it.
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1 Reaction@suzetteirons Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! It sounds like you certainly have been having a difficult time. Have you kept a journal, listing the times you have the pain, location, time of day, what you were doing, etc. Then also a list of medications you have tried [successfully or not], and the drs you have seen? If you are near a Mayo Clinic campus, it might be worthwhile to see about getting an appointment, or go to a large teaching hospital.
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1 ReactionHello Ginger thanks for responding to my message no I don’t keep a journal but I can kinda remember the different doctors I have visit and the medication s I have taken, I am living in Georgia and I don’t think a Mayo Clinic is close by but this is my last resort because am so tired of going to different doctors with no answers, I try to keep records of my blood works. My pain will start in the morning as I wake and it would run for days and the only pain killers I notice work is Tylenol extra strength but all the other meds they have me on don’t help.
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1 Reaction@suzetteirons Here is a list of the top teaching hospitals in Georgia:
1. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta
2. Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta
3. Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta
4. The Medical Center, Navicent Health, Macon
5. Memorial University Medical Center, Savannah
6. Augusta University Medical Center, Augusta
7. WellStar Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta
Are any of these close to you, that you could get an appointment?
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3 ReactionsNo I have never seen a pain doctor before so I think I could look into that one.
Yes Emory, Grady and Wellstar
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1 ReactionWhat about an alternative medicine doctor who will detox you?
I did a couple detox, this is the one I did
Am trying to send you a picture of the detox that I did but it not going through but I did it with my food in water with a little salt
@suzetteirons May I suggest you try for an appointment at one of these institutions, then? Write down what you can about your symptoms, medications tried, etc., so a new medical team can see what you have gone through before.
I'll be waiting to hear from you, how you fare getting an appointment, and what they can do for you.
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