So-Called “Pain Management Clinics”

So-Called “Pain Management Clinics”

I couldn’t agree more, based on MAPS in Minnesota’s pivotal failure to even be willing to treat pain, which started the avalanche I’m buried in. 

A migraneur recounts the definition of “sadism”.

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From the American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition:

sa-dism n. 1. Psychol. The association of sexual gratification with infliction of pain on others. 2. Delight in cruelty. [After the Marquis de Sade.] ~ sa’dist n. ~sa-dis’tic adj. ~sa-dis’ti-cal-ly adv.

Doctors?

Yes, the majority (not entirety) of doctors who purport to treat migraneurs (those of us cursed to suffer the disabling, stigmatizing, isolating wasteland of a migraine life) do, in point of fact, purposefully withhold safe, easily achieved, and highly effective relief from the excruciating, career-destroying, family-wrecking agony barely endured by the migraneur.

I cannot verify definition 1 of sadism, in relation to such doctors, because I’ve no idea of or interest in their sexual gratification.

But after suffering under the so-called “care” of too many of these doctors’ glib, condescending, zero-morality, zero-compassion refusals to relieve my pain, which willful torments have directly injured my dearest children’s well-being by shredding the fabric of my family, I have no hesitation in proclaiming that the aforementioned arrogant men and women in white do, with impunity, “delight in cruelty”.

My own story is long, and ongoing, and this is not the time. And there are many, many others’ stories. Feel free to post yours. Although this blog is devoted to undertreated migraine pain, it is relevant to

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any non-cancer chronic pain sufferers. We’re the ones they try to sweep under the rug, refusing to treat us, causing our suicide rate to be twenty (20) times that of the general population. Forseeable homicide, given the statistics, given the facts regarding the most numerous candidates for physician-assisted suicide; yes, most of Kevorkian’s potential clients were patients whose pain no doctor would treat. THOSE doctors were the killers.

I am going to point out peer-reviewed medical literature that supports our treatment yet is ignored by the Sadistic Doctors.

And I am going to name names, both good and bad. And I hope for a lot of help from you, fellow travelers, with this task specifically. We need to get it out there in the open for our brothers, our sisters, and ourselves: who might we seek treatment from? Who shouldn’t we bother with? Who should we avoid like the plague? I would be particularly interested in any pain management clinics that actually manage pain. I’ve yet to come across one that does so; they like risky, interventional (needles in the spine) treatments with low chances of success, and they like non-medical niceties like therapy and positive thinking, but I’ve yet to see one that isn’t flatly opposed to relieving pain by the quickest, obvious, safest, least-expensive, and most-researched methods available.

I said I’d name names. Here’s one to avoid. Dr. Katherine Kobza of Josephson Wallack Munshower (or JWM) Neurology (in my experience, that means avoiding the whole practice group) of Indianapolis, IN. She just fired me as a patient, with no explanation. I have no way of knowing if I’ll be able to get the medicines I need before my legal career (and family life) goes down the drain again due to the abject ignorance, opiophobia, and oligoanalgesic sadism of the most Indiana doctors. I’m trying. But she may as well have tied a noose around my neck and kicked a chair out from under me.

If I can keep flailing, I’ll post again.

(I’d like to request God, the Universe-Consciousness, the Void, and/or any other listening parties

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to inflict upon all doctors who mistreat migraines [the vast majority] their very own incurable migraines of a severity equal to the sum of all of their migraine patients’ combined pain severity. Then let us see if sadism persists.)