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Hello, welcome to Connect @k1308 I'm sorry to hear of the difficulty you've had with headaches and all that accompanies having chronic pain. Thank you for sharing your story. Mayo Clinic offers a wonderful pain Rehabilitation Center which I graduated from. It really helped me with chronic conditions like daily headaches, migraine, nerve dysfunction, etc... You are much too young to be in the "cycle of pain" without finding ways to manage and perhaps break the cycle. Based on what you've described I think you would be a prime candidate for the Mayo Clinic's PRC. Here's info on the program:
Outside of medication and treatments, what ways have you been managing your symptoms?
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Hello,
This is my last chance for help and truly pray the Mayo clinic can help and not turn their back on me like the UW pain clinic in Madison, WI has to many of their ex patients because they no longer treat pain.
I have been hit by a car 3 separate times in my life. 1st at age 7 crossing the street with a crossing guard and driver ran red light. 2nd at age 12 riding my bicycle and driver ran stop sign and last at age 22 riding bicycle on sidewalk and was hit from behind and left for dead and driver did not stop. I have 7ndergobe 28 surgeries and due to the amount of pain I am in, the severe muscle spasms, not sleeping my BP is threw the roof 267/126 and my UW cardio team even with all the medications adjustments cannot get my BP down and are serious with the pain clinic telling them they no longer treat pain. My primary care doctor doesn't care either and my cardio team has pleaded with her. I am not ready to die. On top of the pain I also suffer with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy and have suffered 2 heart attacks and a TIA. UW patient relations doesn't care and make excuses for those doctors. They have lied on test results and with my latest CT scan and X-rays proves they were lying. The surgeon that just did my 28th surgery last month said to me, "yes Todd you are complicated, but in no way means we as doctors give up on you like the pain clinic has. You deserve a quality of life and is our job to make sure you do. I am so sorry that the UW pain clinic gave up on you and their awful treatment of you.".
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Massage therapy is the only way that I have found to ease my pain I am taking pain meds and even then the pain doesn’t stop! I have fibromyalgia, bludgeoning and degenerative disc almost constant headaches other chronic conditions osteoarthritis all over it makes life not very fun