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Chronic Pain members - Welcome, please introduce yourself

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@medicallew

My name is Tamie. This week was my first time at Mayo's. It's been a dream come true. I have many health issues. I live in pain 24/7. It's been over 20 years dealing with pain.

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grandmaR | @grandmar | Jun 14, 2018

@medicallew
Welcome! You will find that this is a great place to share without any judgement and a place to get all sorts of information.
Ronnie (GRANDMAr)

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Stephen | @wsh66 | Jun 14, 2018

My name is Stephen, Welcome. I have been a pain patient for more than 20 years. The ultimate solution for me was to have a surgically implanted pain pump. It delivers a very small amount of narcotic to my spine which makes even my worse pain very manageable. I get 2.75 mgs. of dilaudid every 24 hours plus another .9 mgs. that I can deliver via a remote control in 10 doses, over 24 hours, no more than 1 dose per hour. Before that I was taking 252 mg.s of various narcotics which were not giving me effective relief. Any drug delivered directly to the spine via. a pain pump is about 300 times more effective than the same dose taken orally.

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Gary, Alumni Mentor | @gman007 | Jun 14, 2018

Hi Tammie (@medicallew),

I would like to echo Teresa's post. I have dealt with pain for about a dozen years, but have learned a lot of valuable things from a lot of very helpful and supportive folks here at Connect. You will get to hear some experiences that will be very similar to your own if you would like to share some specifics, and if not, you will still get some excellent general info from the folks in this group.

I hope you will become a regular visitor and share your experiences at Mayo.

Gary

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