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Airwave!
Airwave! Member Posts: 2,471
edited 15. Jan 2012, 06:18 in Community Chit-chat archive
Theres a short piece in the Telegraph today, a million sufferers with pain that is untreated. I can believe that, most would not want a chain of events to start that might see their livelihood and homes vanish when their jobs might be put at risk, easier to struggle on until there is absolutely no choice.

Or is it just GP's becoming numb to what start as minor ailments? or they just know don't how to diagnose arther? or we have no faith in the system? or they don't?

Given that newspapers love a figure to headline with, if half of it were true then its a shocking indictment.

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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    You know Airwave it is likley to be true..were they all in pain with arthritis??

    I think a lot think there is nothing to be done and dont see the doc...or as you said worry about not getting life insurance/ keeping their jobs etc

    Love

    Toni xx
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Here's a link to the article in the Telegraph:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9005217/One-million-needlessly-in-pain.html

    It makes interesting reading, and I noticed these quotes:

    Dr Martin Johnson, a GP with a specialist interest in pain management, said older patients with arthritis were the biggest single group not being treated.

    Dr Johnson described access to pain assessment clinics, where patients can learn the source of their discomfort and how to treat it, as "appalling".
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  • Airwave!
    Airwave! Member Posts: 2,471
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have asked a number of times to be referred to the clinic, I presume its limited? Arther must be a more widespread than those who are being treated or who took part in a survey.

    I sometimes think everyone should have an annual healthcheck and be able to voice concerns without being rushed.
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I sometimes think everyone should have an annual healthcheck and be able to voice concerns without being rushed.[/quote]


    Now wouldn't that be great!!

    I'll vote for you Airwave :wink:

    Toni xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    There are so many causes of pain, not just arthritis, and if the cause is not known then how do you treat it? I can believe that there is that kind of figure, and I'm not surprised that it may affect mostly the elderly: what is reasonable for the pain of aging and what is not? Who can tell?

    As for the pain clinic I've been waiting for years, now I wonder if I would benefit should I get the opportunity to go! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • jillyb1
    jillyb1 Member Posts: 1,725
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I mentioned pain clinics to the rheumy nurse and consultant last year and was told that after 30 years of RA it would be pointless as I've probably found my own ways of coping with the pain by now anyway ! Maybe , pain clinics are more beneficial if at the start of the " pain journey " . Jillyb
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    jillyb1 wrote:
    I mentioned pain clinics to the rheumy nurse and consultant last year and was told that after 30 years of RA it would be pointless as I've probably found my own ways of coping with the pain by now anyway ! Maybe , pain clinics are more beneficial if at the start of the " pain journey " . Jillyb


    That is unfair Jilly :sad: NEW things come along which might actually help you greatly :shock: l would ask again - nothing lost even if there is nothing more you can do at least you will have tried.

    Love

    Toni xx
  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I went to a private one years agon did do a lot for me although I didn't know that I had chronic neuorapthic pain syndrome, he was so interested in telling me how humans and animals felt pain and he missed my cervicle spondulosis eevne though I'd told him about it!, it was money for old rope,!.

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