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Mayo Clinic Pain Rehab Center (PRC) - What’s Your Experience?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 11, 2023 | Replies (113)Comment receiving replies
Thank you for that thoughtful, intelligent and personable reply. What you say about yourself pre PRC is exactly how I feel about my meds in the big picture going in. I’ve weaned off opioids twice during my 12 yr journey and each time they eventually returned as they were the only thing that helped my functionality. I tried the many psychological approaches available plus physical interventions but sadly opioids were and still are the only thing that seem to help me get to the family dinner or the choir practice for e.g . This pattern existed for many years , but now sadly nothing seems to work consistently and my life has spiralled down to a very isolated , lonely place of suffering . Hence my intention to attend the PRC. I will take your advice to trust this group and so hope my life will change with their help . I do have a tendency to overthink these things as I was a practising physician when my injury happened . This journey has required me to turn off “Dr mode “ and turn on “ patient mode “ many times ..no time more important than this . Thanks again ,
Alan
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Hi @alh123, I'm interested to hear how your phone appointment went with the PRC team. Did they feel that you are a good candidate for the program? What are your thoughts at this point?
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You're very welcome, Alan, it's my pleasure.
You've really touched on the 3 factors Dr. Sletten thinks are important to weigh when considering PRC:
1. Treatments losing effectiveness
2. Emotional distress
3. Physical deconditioning
Rehabilitation =
"Bravery with acceptance of doing things differently"
If you can take a leap of faith and tear down the walls of the past 12 years, while realizing that in order to have change you must make change, you will give yourself a fighting chance. At the end of the day we all have what we have. Chronic conditions are still going to exist. However, if we are given a plan, a blueprint if you will, to follow and hold ourselves accountable to, we open the door towards allowing ourselves a better quality of life. Go for it!
I'm a big HGTV fan and love Chip and Joanna Gaines. Do you know who they are? Chip loves demo days on his home improvement shows. The point is...
"If you want to get a new kitchen, you've got to demo the old".
Best of luck with your appointment tomorrow. Stay in "patient mode" and know that you are worth this investment. Please keep me posted on how things go.