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Subject: Article on Pain and Treatment

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Alison aka applecreek

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Date Posted: Thursday, November 20, 09:46:26am

There is an article in December 2003 Reader's Digest, entitled "Life Without Pain." It was a good article. Not too promising for FMS patients unless they have been misdiagnosed because of lack of education on the doctor's part. What I found helpful in the article was the change in attitude toward chronic pain patients. Some of our issues were verbalized quite well, such as: "What doctors see in a chronic pain patient is a ruined body and a ruined life." It also pointed out the dangers of waiting to treat pain that so many doctors do not understand. It also was upfront about doctors not receiving adequate training in medical school about pain as a disease.

I don't know if the article can be accessed online but it was helpful for me to read that finally there are people who are acknowledging that chronic pain is a disease all by itself whatever the cause.

I hope you are all doing well and will be able to enjoy the holidays. I try to remind myself daily that while I have pain, the pain doesn't have me. I can still make an effort to be happy even though my body feels like it was drug underneath a freight train for the length and breadth of our nation. :-)

Take care,
Alison aka applecreek aka applepansy

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Re: Article on Pain and Treatment	Tess	Friday, November 21, 06:26:55pm