pain programme

daylily
daylily Member Posts: 619
edited 18. Jun 2011, 16:16 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hello all,
have any of you been on an Expert Patient's Programme?
I'm booked in on one next week and just wondered what it is all about.
It runs for 6 weeks for 2 and 1/2 hours a week. Pain clinic recommended it.
Is it worth going on it?
Thanks
xx

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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,848
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I know NOTHING Daylily

    But there are some on here who do.

    Can l wish you the best of luck thogh and would appreciate feedback

    Love

    Toni xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am most envious. I have been waiting for years to do one of these and will continue to wait as my authority does not have the required funds. The best of luck, I hope you enjoy it and find it helpful. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sorry daylilly I cant help, but I would be very interested to see what you get up to, please let us know how it goes.
    And good luck with it all.
    Love
    Barbara
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Daylily I can not help either

    Just want to say I hope you enjoy it and good luck

    Juliepf x
  • caterina57
    caterina57 Member Posts: 1,424
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sorry, can't help either - but it sounds very interesting please let us know how you get on
    Cath
  • daylily
    daylily Member Posts: 619
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    I am most envious. I have been waiting for years to do one of these and will continue to wait as my authority does not have the required funds. The best of luck, I hope you enjoy it and find it helpful. DD

    DD isn't that course you've just been on something similar?
    Challenging pain wasn't it?
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I don't know if it's similar to the EPP. AC ran the Challenging Pain course, which was just two weeks in length, they also do a six week Challenging Arthritis course. I think the EPP will be different in content at least. Hopefully you will have more time than we did to talk things over and generate ideas etc. I am still envious. :sad:
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi
    Yes thats the first course I ever did.....the OT recommended it.
    Its very similar to Challenging Arthritis {not Challenging pain} 6 weeks etc
    The only difference is that instead of being aimed at people with arthritis its aimed at anyone with chronic illness. {same as challenging pain except its 6 weeks}I had someone with huntingdons disease, a few with arthritis, someone with heart problems. AC say that expert patient course pinched it from them :lol:
    It was very good......I hadnt found this website at the time and it was very informative. Very much worth going on...thats rubbish grammar :lol: but I take it you get my meaning
    Love
    Hileena
  • ichabod6
    ichabod6 Member Posts: 843
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    The epp generic self management course is the single most
    effective thing I have encountered in coping with my ra.
    I was so impressed by it and got so much from it that I
    undertook the training to become a tutor and have been
    delivering the course for the last five years. I still get
    loads from it every time I deliver. I am sure you will enjoy it.
  • daylily
    daylily Member Posts: 619
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    ichabod6 wrote:
    The epp generic self management course is the single most
    effective thing I have encountered in coping with my ra.
    I was so impressed by it and got so much from it that I
    undertook the training to become a tutor and have been
    delivering the course for the last five years. I still get
    loads from it every time I deliver. I am sure you will enjoy it.
    Brilliant!!!
    Thanks for that, I will really be looking forward to it now.
  • daylily
    daylily Member Posts: 619
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hileena111 wrote:
    Hi
    Yes thats the first course I ever did.....the OT recommended it.
    Its very similar to Challenging Arthritis {not Challenging pain} 6 weeks etc
    The only difference is that instead of being aimed at people with arthritis its aimed at anyone with chronic illness. {same as challenging pain except its 6 weeks}I had someone with huntingdons disease, a few with arthritis, someone with heart problems. AC say that expert patient course pinched it from them :lol:
    It was very good......I hadnt found this website at the time and it was very informative. Very much worth going on...thats rubbish grammar :lol: but I take it you get my meaning
    Love
    Hileena
    Thanks Hileena. Will report back on how it goes.

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