Medical Ptsd And Doctors - How To Disclose

[recoveringfromptsd]

There are a lot of reasons for not feeling pain, it could be genetic where a high tolerance for pain runs in your family, it could be a physical reason, and it could be your PTSD. The first two are rare, but it is common for people with PTSD to not feel pain, especially if there abuse was severe and involved pain.

PTSD and Doctors even PDOC's are always problematic. But remember as a patient your the one who has the power not them, they think the do and try to assert that power, but when it comes down to it, you can get up and leave if they won't listen or understand. What does help is to have a letter from your T that details PTSD and gives the doctors some direction. Or if your T can be reached on an after hours number assuming its after hours having you T talk with them.

 

[provencepearl]

The other thing to know, for doctor bias, is that most addicts who are drug seeking in clinics and hospit...

Because I have so much harm done by drugs and doctors not telling the truth about side effects, I made up my mind to never take another drug. No matter what. My husband had a condition that caused severe pain. The joke among people with that condition was that one was holding his arm, complaining of pain. The friend with the condition stomped on first guy's foot. How's your arm now? The point was that the more we think about pain, the worse it gets. We need to focus on something else to lessen the pain. I did not want pain to live in my body "rent free". So I have managed to train myself not to let pain run my life. I seldom have headaches now. I made myself wait at least 24 hours before doing anything for a headache. I learned if I could fall asleep, it would be gone by the time I woke up. I do the same with any pain and believe I feel pain less than I would have if I had not trained myself this way. I did not know this was a ptsd thing.

I struggle with how to explain how I experience pain. I do not want to have drugs "pushed" on me. So I don't quite get how an addict would use this to get drugs.

I first experienced ptsd symptoms after a car accident in 1999. Doc insisted I was depressed, which was absolutely false. I was treated so badly by doc, after watching husband and many others die of bad medicine, I made up my mind to stay away from docs. Wait for ptsd to go away. It did get better, but startle reflex and other issues never left. Then I was bullied by supervisor, lost job, lost homes. All done illegally. So I now have a diagnosis of ptsd caused by legal abuse syndrome.

I am learning so much here.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

So I have managed to train myself not to let pain run my life.

This brings me back to 2003 when I had my neck fusion, first thing in recovery in response to my neck being in pain (from muscle tightness created by the surgery) they were quick to give me morphine, which I stopped them, the put me on soma, and that worked, for years I needed pain medicine when my neck gave me problems, but I always only took the hydrocodone when I reached a pain threshold that I absolutely needed the relief (and I only took half and if that did not work I took the other half), the result is my body adjusted to the pain, so over time I needed less pain medicine eventually I did not need them at all.

I could have easily gotten hooked on pain medicine if I let the doctors have there way. Doctor's have to be watched like children, left the there own devices they can wreak havoc (on our bodies).