Women In Pain

"I feel so much better that I am not alone. I just wish I could meet someone who shares the same symptoms and pain I go thru every day of my life that I have learned to live with !!!"

"Women need physicians who will appropriately treat pain!"

"I , too , have dealt with intractable pain since 1992. Even though I was a nurse, I still received some of the same responses as the writer. Thank God that I found some wonderful pain management doctors. My first one, being in pain himself, said there is "

"I AM 35 YRS OLD WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN SUFFERRING FROM "MASSIVE CHRONIC ABDMOMINAL ADHESIONS SINCE I WAS THE AGE OF 21!!! MY VERY 1ST SURGEY WAS AT THE AGE OF 18 IN MARCH OF '1988. I HAVE UNDER WENT 13 MAJOR ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS, STARTING FROM 1988- 2001!!! I"

"I was hurt @ work in 1990. I WAS SUCKED THRU AN 8 INCH HOLE, BROKE AND TWISTED MY BODY. THEN LAST YEAR, I FELL OFF A RAMP AT WORK AND HAVE BEEN IN PAIN SINCE! IT TOTALLY RUINED MY LIFE! THROUGH OUT THE YEARS, THE PAIN I HAVE IN MY NECK AND BACK HAVE INCRE"

"I also have RSD, and share similarities with Cynthia's story, to a lesser degree. Chronic pain is indescribably devastating to live with. Many women who are recieving improper care end up commiting suicide. Help us educate the doctors who are supposed to "

"I know only too well what it is like to be told to see a psychiatrist, rather than the doctor take the time to find out the source of the pain, and I know aht it feels like to be "driven" to do things not normally done,whn blinded by such pain."

"Vote Libertarian and the war on drugs, the source of many of the problems with doctors and pharmacies, will end. Too many people don't get the medications they need because of this policy."

"Thank You, I have been suffering from RSD since 1994, but have just recently been diagnosed."

"I am an RN and unfortunitly I have seen the bias as a nurse and also have been on the revieving end of the bias."

"I have had the personal experience of not being believed about my pain (severe headaches for over 7years) I was told it was all in my head and I was seeking attention. When finally diagnosed by a physician who really listened to me, it turned out that I h"