Neuropathy And Chronic Pain

Introduction Imagine waking up every morning immediately in pain. You don’t get the chance to develop a headache, eat something to make your stomach hurt, or step the wrong way and hurt your knee. You already experience it the second you open your eyes. This is the life of a person living with chronic pain. People don’t realize when someone is suffering from chronic pain because it’s a condition that doesn’t have visible characteristics. Due to not having visible characteristics and no way to officially diagnose it make getting the correct medication difficult. There are so many restrictions. Restrictions on any pain medication are important. They are there for the patient’s safety and to keep patients from abusing them. However, if regulations
“Neuropathy is the term used to describe a problem with the nerves, usually the 'peripheral nerves' as opposed to the 'central nervous system' (the brain and spinal cord).” (Webberley, 2016) Since there are different types of pain not everyone experiences pain the same. Therefore, treatment is customized to the patient. My father was in a skiing accident in 1992 while on a trip to Salt Lake City, Utah. He was coming off the ski lift when a child darted out in front of him. Trying to miss the kid he did cartwheels down the mountain with skis on. He didn’t start to have problems until 1998, four years after I was born. In 2000 he got his first degenerative disk disease diagnosis. From 2000 until now he has been diagnosed with degenerative disk disease, bugling disks, herniated disks, slipped disks, and a floating disk. He goes to a pain management doctor every four to six weeks to make sure he is taking his pain medicine like he is supposed to and that he isn’t using any other form of drug to try and help ease his
If the patient for some reason cannot pick up their prescription there are other people that can pick them up for them, but there are some restrictions depending on the doctor’s office. Some pain management doctors will let them have two people that can pick up the prescriptions, but they have to be approved in advance. They have to be over the age of 18 and have to show their ID when they go to pick it up. I can personally attest to how long and drawn out the process is to pick up someone’s prescription from a pain management office. When they get their prescription they have a whole new set of restrictions and rules they have to