Pain and Depression
This is likely one of those questions where most would say, "Well, duh, yeah". I have noticed over the past few years in my fight with chronic pain, that on a "good" day, I feel more uplifted, more engaging, etc. On the "bad" days, I feel withdrawn and unlikely to have any desire to do much of anything. In fact, on those type of days I literally hope that no one asks me to do anything except to leave me alone. Ring a familiar bell with anyone?
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Meditation?!? That’s insane. Migraines and tmjd are horrible conditions. My dentist told me he never in his life had a headache. I said to him, You’re very lucky. I could not believe it. I have a bite where I’d need my jaw broken and wired shut to correct my bite. I thought that was drastic. I have lost and replaced more teeth because of the grinding and Bruxism. I appreciate that pain. Migraines are no picnic. Medication causes there own problems, but I think that is right up there with nerve pain, burns and back pain. Thank you for the information. That is hopeful…
Back in '72, when I was in the army, I had that procedure to correct my bite. Broke lower jaw, moved it forward and wired jaws shut. Worst part was having the wires put in place on upper and lower teeth to provide a place to wire them together. That was excruciating! Not sure it really helped. But, at least it didn't cost me anything.
You are gutsy! I didn’t have the nerve to do it. It would have saved my teeth but that is that. If you still have your teeth I’m gonna bet it helped in that capacity.
Well, I did lose a tooth back in 012 due to it's dying (who knows why?). Other than that, we get our teeth cleaned and checked every 6 months. Had a crown put on about 10 years ago. Has held up pretty well. I had toyed with the idea of getting an implant to replace the dead tooth that got yanked, but between the cost and hassle, I decided against it. At 75 I don't really care too much if people catch a quick glimpse of a missing tooth occasionally. Doesn't affect my eating.
I've been feelt iting better since the hainstallation of a morphine pain pump. Still in the "adjusting period", where I go in every two weeks to get it amped up a notch. At this point, there are some decent days and still some less than stellar days. But, at least I am able to get back to doing a lot of the things that I was previously not able to do. There is a button on the remote that allows me to give myself a temporary boost of meds. I may try this today, because I have a lot more pain than usual. It may be a result of working outside yesterday on my deck for a number of hours.
I am guessing you are not from Pa? Years of pain from sports injury to car accidents- our state has a rule! No pain meds given out to those who havnt really used them before, to those who have - rather than help dosage, they lowered the standards, our pain management clinics are injection based cures or left to our pcp’s who shouldnt have than burden since its not there expertise. Its pathetic! I hope the DEA IS READING THIS! Open your clinics if you want to be in charge. People cant even pt because our medicine was taken away! Most people i know who really need pain medicine cant get it, are left to basically drink alcohol, or whatever means they can to cope with it, and try working to survive! Do you think this is rite? Pa - a mess!