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Post by sd51555 on Jul 1, 2017 22:40:36 GMT -6
I have concerns, but don't know enough about it.
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Post by nhmountains on Jul 1, 2017 22:59:06 GMT -6
I'd have a blood test done for Lyme disease and ask for doxycycline pills. I tested negative a few years ago but they gave me the pills and the symptoms cleared up within days. Symptoms were similar between fybromialgia and Lyme. The amount of time you spend in the woods you might have gotten bit. If they ask if you've ever had a tick embedded for more than 30 hours say yes or they won't treat you.
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Post by Catscratch on Jul 1, 2017 23:04:45 GMT -6
I coached a kid with it for a few yrs. She wasn't diagnosed with it at the time but you could tell she was in considerable pain often. She has since found some things that help, but not much.
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 2, 2017 13:49:19 GMT -6
I know somebody with FM, and it only seems to flare up when she wants something, or wants to avoid something. This same person also shopped doctors trying to get disability for anxiety. I started googling it last night, and it seems to me that FM is the default diagnosis when the doctors can't diagnose anything else. I don't want to knock anyone that has a legit problem, but it just smells like a scam to me with the person I'm dealing with.
Kinda like the person that parks a high clearance vehicle in the handicap spot, hangs their placard, and skips into the store. There is a guy in my apt building that is in a wheel chair and has his own van with a ramp. It horrifies me to think someone with a much lesser problem might take that dude's spot in our lot.
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Post by Catscratch on Jul 2, 2017 14:14:58 GMT -6
Sounds like the person you know might be a scammer. The kid I knew refused disability or accommodations that were offered to her from doctors or the school she was in. She hated to be treated different than other people and did her best to hide it. She did try a lot of treatments and sought a different diagnosis for a long time. She hoped she was misdiagnosed so that maybe a different treatment would work.
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Post by jbird on Jul 6, 2017 11:40:48 GMT -6
I can't speak to this topic in particular, but I can speak to nerve pain and wires being crossed.
My middle daughter Jenna has a condition called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - it's terrible. It is essentially a condition in which the brain signals pain, yet there is no actual cause of the pain. Jenna has this in her right foot after it was broken. You can't control it and it can be VERY extreme. You also can;t use typical pain killing meds because it is a function of the brain and not actual pain. Her condition had gotten tot the point where we had serious concerns about her every walking unassisted again. After years of different doctors, meds and therapies she is significantly better, but this condition will never entirely go away. In fact it can spread. Many people that have this condition have gone to lengths of amputation to escape the pain and it doesn't work.
I'm sure there are folks out there "milking" the system.....but I do know that there are things that happen inside us that we can't fully explain or control. In my daughters case....imagine having your foot feel like it's broken and yet there is no visible sign, no realistic treatment, no medication to ease the pain. This is VERY real.
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Post by batman on Jul 6, 2017 12:32:33 GMT -6
I have 3 nieces that are lactose intolerant. But they all eat ice cream.
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 6, 2017 12:37:25 GMT -6
I can't speak to this topic in particular, but I can speak to nerve pain and wires being crossed. My middle daughter Jenna has a condition called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - it's terrible. It is essentially a condition in which the brain signals pain, yet there is no actual cause of the pain. Jenna has this in her right foot after it was broken. You can't control it and it can be VERY extreme. You also can;t use typical pain killing meds because it is a function of the brain and not actual pain. Her condition had gotten tot the point where we had serious concerns about her every walking unassisted again. After years of different doctors, meds and therapies she is significantly better, but this condition will never entirely go away. In fact it can spread. Many people that have this condition have gone to lengths of amputation to escape the pain and it doesn't work. I'm sure there are folks out there "milking" the system.....but I do know that there are things that happen inside us that we can't fully explain or control. In my daughters case....imagine having your foot feel like it's broken and yet there is no visible sign, no realistic treatment, no medication to ease the pain. This is VERY real. My heart goes out to people that have things like your daughter is going through. It makes me all the more furious about system milkers that are whoring in on health care resources that could be better spent on people with real ailments that need treatment. I wouldn't be so wound up about this, but the person I'm talking about travels the US by herself vacationing in places like DC, Florida, Texas, Cancun, and more (in one year). If I had a mysterious illness that cripples someone unexpectedly, the last place I'd want to be is in an airport having to drag around a woman's ration of luggage by myself. |
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Post by Tooln on Jul 6, 2017 14:03:11 GMT -6
Kind of sounds like you should stay clear of this person if possible.
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