frozenborderline
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I have mostly untreated chronic pain. But I also have a major neurosurgery on the east coast planned for a month from now. I need to find a good pain doc asap, but many pain management clinics seem like nightmares and I am exhausted in the search.
The following is a review of the only pain clinic I was recommended, St Vincent of christus spine and pain in santa fe:
Shana M 2 reviews 10 months ago- They treated me like I wasn't in pain. They told me to exercise my pain away. And that fibromyalgia is a mind disease and yoga can cure it. I need to take Ibuprofen and that will help. Even though I have suffered from chronic pain for over 13 years and ibuprofen does nothing for me. They treated me for a whole month then cut me off of pain meds after just one month. I have hashimotos and fibromyalgia and yet they wouldn't actually treat my plan. She was cold and mean spirited.""
I have ME/CFS. the pain is not from ME/CFS, its from craniocervical instability, which is less of a "syndrome" and more of a thing you can see on an MRI thats known to be life threatening and serious, but this is still a major red flag, if they treated me like I could exercise my pain away , when I have ME/CFS, this would be dangerous. So I need to find a doctor or pain clinic thats more understanding. I know there's not a ton in New mexico. There was a family medicine doctor I went to, not for pain, just for a valley fever scare, in santa fe, who fit the bill of a good doctor who could treat pain and was an excellent generalist who would do house calls, but he got forced to resign for his pain prescribing practices.
I would love to find a palliative care doctor that can do house calls , since i may be bedridden for a bit after the surgery, and they tend to be more personalized... but if any of y'all have pain clinics that work really well for you, I'll give them a try.
The following is a review of the only pain clinic I was recommended, St Vincent of christus spine and pain in santa fe:
Shana M 2 reviews 10 months ago- They treated me like I wasn't in pain. They told me to exercise my pain away. And that fibromyalgia is a mind disease and yoga can cure it. I need to take Ibuprofen and that will help. Even though I have suffered from chronic pain for over 13 years and ibuprofen does nothing for me. They treated me for a whole month then cut me off of pain meds after just one month. I have hashimotos and fibromyalgia and yet they wouldn't actually treat my plan. She was cold and mean spirited.""
I have ME/CFS. the pain is not from ME/CFS, its from craniocervical instability, which is less of a "syndrome" and more of a thing you can see on an MRI thats known to be life threatening and serious, but this is still a major red flag, if they treated me like I could exercise my pain away , when I have ME/CFS, this would be dangerous. So I need to find a doctor or pain clinic thats more understanding. I know there's not a ton in New mexico. There was a family medicine doctor I went to, not for pain, just for a valley fever scare, in santa fe, who fit the bill of a good doctor who could treat pain and was an excellent generalist who would do house calls, but he got forced to resign for his pain prescribing practices.
I would love to find a palliative care doctor that can do house calls , since i may be bedridden for a bit after the surgery, and they tend to be more personalized... but if any of y'all have pain clinics that work really well for you, I'll give them a try.
