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karabear77 · 02-09-2009, 07:23 AM

Thank you for all your advice. It is so nice to know that I am not alone. I felt stupid asking and felt like if I had to ask then it is probably a problem. I just get so much crap from not only my new dr but also my pharmacist. I am very good at handling pain and believe that a good outlook can be just as healing as anything else. So, I continue to work my 40 hours a week and try to be as active as possilbe. I fear that if I went on disability and allowed myself to surrender to the pain that I would shrivel up and in the end I would allow the pain to consume my life...and in turn so would the meds. I have tried to explain to many people that if I didnt have the pain meds, I probably wouldnt be able to function normally because I would be in so much pain. But as all of you probably know, if you havent experianced chronic pain then it is impossible for understand what all of us go through on a daily basis and the struggle it is to do "normal" activities. it is really nice to have others who know what I am talking about and understand the "balance" that we all must obtain. Thank you all so much!
Just a little update on me, the Saturday before last, I was laying on the couch and very suddenly got a tremendous pain in my stomach right under my ribs. I thought my hubby was going to have to take me to the hospital. It was probably the worst pain I have ever felt in my life (even more than delivering my son). This "attack" lasted for about 2 hours and then it started to subside. I have had a lot of little "attacks" in the past week but nothing like that first one. Since I work in healthcare, my first thought was that it was my pancreas. This scares me to death as I dont want to have to live on insulin the rest of my life and pancreatitis patients rarely live past 7 years after diagnosis. I am going to the dr this afternoon to get some tests done, but I wanted to ask for your prayers. I am really hoping it is just my gallbladder or something. I will let you all know what I find out. I am just scared and nervous right now.

02-09-2009, 07:23 AM	#5 (permalink)
karabear77 Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: colorado springs Posts: 30	Thank you for all your advice. It is so nice to know that I am not alone. I felt stupid asking and felt like if I had to ask then it is probably a problem. I just get so much crap from not only my new dr but also my pharmacist. I am very good at handling pain and believe that a good outlook can be just as healing as anything else. So, I continue to work my 40 hours a week and try to be as active as possilbe. I fear that if I went on disability and allowed myself to surrender to the pain that I would shrivel up and in the end I would allow the pain to consume my life...and in turn so would the meds. I have tried to explain to many people that if I didnt have the pain meds, I probably wouldnt be able to function normally because I would be in so much pain. But as all of you probably know, if you havent experianced chronic pain then it is impossible for understand what all of us go through on a daily basis and the struggle it is to do "normal" activities. it is really nice to have others who know what I am talking about and understand the "balance" that we all must obtain. Thank you all so much! Just a little update on me, the Saturday before last, I was laying on the couch and very suddenly got a tremendous pain in my stomach right under my ribs. I thought my hubby was going to have to take me to the hospital. It was probably the worst pain I have ever felt in my life (even more than delivering my son). This "attack" lasted for about 2 hours and then it started to subside. I have had a lot of little "attacks" in the past week but nothing like that first one. Since I work in healthcare, my first thought was that it was my pancreas. This scares me to death as I dont want to have to live on insulin the rest of my life and pancreatitis patients rarely live past 7 years after diagnosis. I am going to the dr this afternoon to get some tests done, but I wanted to ask for your prayers. I am really hoping it is just my gallbladder or something. I will let you all know what I find out. I am just scared and nervous right now.