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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 281090" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>My problem with TNS - the electrodes don't come in body suit format.</p><p></p><p>I can't tell you what you'll find at the pain clinic. It really depends on the sort of patients sourced by the clinic. The one we go to is a palliative care clinit at a hospice, a lot of the other patients are terminal cancer (or similar). I did have a woman I knew who picked my brains about pain management, I suspected she was a substance abuser. She certainly "used" people in a simlar way. I happened to see her at the pain clinic a few years ago, she didn't seem to recognise me (good). I don't know how she was going; the doctor was fairly astute about medication abusers although he would have give her relief for genuine pain (and I believe she had a fair bit of that). After I told her about the clinic and she began going, she kept pestering me for info on what I was getting prescribed and how I got the doctor to give it to me. I clammed up fairly hard at that point (I hadn't told her what I take, in any case). I think she was going to try the route of "Hey doctor, you prescribed that for Marg, so why not let me have some?"</p><p></p><p>So go carefully with other patients. One pain clinic I went to was overpopulated with addicgts, it felt weird to sit there and listen to their conversations (bizarre). As I said about the current one, it's loaded with terminal patients (with a few people like me & husband, long-termers). Another clinic I went to was skewed towards people with MS or similar, so the waiting room was like an impromptu support group.</p><p></p><p>Just be careful about sharing personal medication info. I've been burned...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 281090, member: 1991"] My problem with TNS - the electrodes don't come in body suit format. I can't tell you what you'll find at the pain clinic. It really depends on the sort of patients sourced by the clinic. The one we go to is a palliative care clinit at a hospice, a lot of the other patients are terminal cancer (or similar). I did have a woman I knew who picked my brains about pain management, I suspected she was a substance abuser. She certainly "used" people in a simlar way. I happened to see her at the pain clinic a few years ago, she didn't seem to recognise me (good). I don't know how she was going; the doctor was fairly astute about medication abusers although he would have give her relief for genuine pain (and I believe she had a fair bit of that). After I told her about the clinic and she began going, she kept pestering me for info on what I was getting prescribed and how I got the doctor to give it to me. I clammed up fairly hard at that point (I hadn't told her what I take, in any case). I think she was going to try the route of "Hey doctor, you prescribed that for Marg, so why not let me have some?" So go carefully with other patients. One pain clinic I went to was overpopulated with addicgts, it felt weird to sit there and listen to their conversations (bizarre). As I said about the current one, it's loaded with terminal patients (with a few people like me & husband, long-termers). Another clinic I went to was skewed towards people with MS or similar, so the waiting room was like an impromptu support group. Just be careful about sharing personal medication info. I've been burned... Marg [/QUOTE]
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