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I would consider it a low volume list for the most part. Every once in a

while, I will send out various articals on different subjects of diabetes.

Hope this helps you and welcome to the group.

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> Hi listers,

> I just joined this list and I was curious about its traffic level. Is it

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> low volume or a rather high volume list?

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Hi .....

You've come to the right place...all of us here are in constant,

unrelenting pain..and as for being 'short' with people because of the

pain???? HA! Just hang around...we're tyrants here..<not really..<s>

However, I can relate to being a horror to be around when the pain just gets

to be too much.

I would suggest that you go to the hospital, or to your regular doctor,

and get a recommendation to a pain management specialist...then get

EVERYTHING documented...and get the earlier medical records about everything

that has been done for the pain...and submit it again to get back on

disability. Get a good disability attorney....they don't charge you until

you get the disability affirmed..and while they take part of the back

payment, it's worth it not to have to fight the system by yourself. I was

able to do it by myself...but I got lucky...there are too many horror

stories about people fighting for much too long to get their benefits. I

got mine first time around, and within 3 months, but that's NOT the normal

thing that happens. I had to go in, lose control, cry, throw up, and

basically 'let it all hang out'...some people aren't able to let loose,

because they are used to hiding the pain....I got 'coached' before hand, so

I knew what I had to do...not hide ANY of it...sometimes that won't even

work..so the best way is to get an attorney. They'll help you get all the

documentation you need, and get you the benefits you need and deserve.

I have RSD...Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy...and it's supposedly more

painful than what a cancer patient goes through...I only know it hurts like

heck all the time, since I've never had cancer...but chronic pain is nothing

to try to deal with on your own...

We care...get those benefits back...and get the doctors to treat the

pain aggressively.

Contrary to popular opinion, chronic pain sufferers do NOT get hooked on

strong meds...it just brings us down to 'normal'. And if you are going

through chronic pain, who cares if you get hooked anyway???? I mean, what's

the alternative? Live in horrible pain 24/7?

If you don't find a doctor who understands, keep calling around until

you find one who does. Many of us have had to go through several doctors to

find one who knows what they are doing. Don't give up. You'll find someone

Hang in there...

gustate et videte quam bonus sit Dominus....

le

" I always feel I have to take a stand, and there's always someone on hand to

hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, and every

time I do I offend someone somewhere. "

--Ani diFranco, " What If No One's Watching "

(Sr. St. of the Cross, OCDS)

Wife to Salvador, Mom to Manda(26) Our child of the heart in Idaho, (6)

our child of the heart in Ecuador, and 6 wee babes in God's tender arms.

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Hi al

My name is Carol. I have secondary progressive MS which causes severe central

nerve pain. I have pins and needles tingling in my feet and legs constantly.

I have a burning sensation in my back and legs.

I hope to get to know you all

Carol

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