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Pain Clinic, waste of time

TheCatWoman

I had a call with the pain clinic earlier, I'd been waiting nearly 7 months for an appointment, I was supposed to speak to the consultant, but he wasn't in today, so I had a nurse instead, she was one of the most unsympathetic people I think I've ever spoken too and that takes some doing. Seeing that I'd been discharged before for something else, she asked 'what I expected from them this time?' That felt incredibly insulting, like I'm on at them all the time, I was refered this time for a different problem than before, I asked if it was possible that they had some different injections to the ones I normal have or if I could have them more often with a consultants recomendation

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  • It’s unfortunate that you had a clinician who was unsympathetic, especially when it is a given that people in chronic pain are less able to cope with life in general.

    I have noticed these past few years that doctors, physiotherapists, psychotherapists and some nurses say, “What are your expectations/what do you hope to gain by coming here/what would you like the outcome to be?” I imagine they have been trained in this approach so that patients can state that they want to be pain free/sleep better/walk 10K/return to work/cut the grass etc., yet the way some professionals phrase the question can come across as uncaring and the addition of “this time” sounds as if the nurse couldn’t be bothered. 

    I hope that you got the answers/help that you needed. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    No nothing, even the fybromyalgia group she told me about no longer meets on the island only in Llandudno, or a faceache group.

    I don't think I had unrealistic expectations of what they could possibly do to help me nor do I think it fair for them to put the emphasis on the patient to tell them what they need, I don't know what treatments they have available to them, so how would I know what to ask for? It seems as if you don't ask then nothing will be offered, it's like a double ignorance problem where the patient is always in the wrong

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    That’s tough. Maybe next time, if there is one, tell them you want to be in less/no pain. If they are anything like some health services here, they will tell you, “we can’t guarantee anything but we can offer X, Y or Z treatments, all of which have proven efficacy, which do you want?” 

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    That’s tough. Maybe next time, if there is one, tell them you want to be in less/no pain. If they are anything like some health services here, they will tell you, “we can’t guarantee anything but we can offer X, Y or Z treatments, all of which have proven efficacy, which do you want?” 

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