Rather than going the negative approach, can't you maybe find another doctor that can help you?
What started this chronic pain exactly?
I really wish. Everyone has a different opinion.
I've been through 3 systems here in Seattle, Swedish neuroscience, Northwest Hospital, and Univ. WA.
Swedish neuro diagnosed as a rare 1 per 1 million population disease that is a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning they couldn't find a cause of a lesion on an MRI. Spinal tap was clear of known infection/virus/etc. I took steroids for 3 months which got rid of the lesion but the pain never got better.
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I went to a neurologist at Northwest for a second opinion. He said since my eye wasn't paralyzed it wasn't what Swedish diagnosed. He just said cranial neuropathy. He referred to neurosurgeon who did this:
But that didn't help so he started giving percocet for breakthrough pain. It helped but only temporarily. He then gave me oxycontin which is the same ingredient but just low dose over time, and it made things a lot better.
After the surgery, I got a referral to an ENT at UW to see what he could find. He had a 3rd diagnosis, scheduled a surgery, but my neurologist at Northwest talked him out of it, so the ENT sent me back to the Neuro at NW.
Pain clinic was worthless and set me back, so I went back to Swedish to 1 of two neurosurgeons in Seattle that do experimental surgeries for nerves in the face that my neurosurgeon had never heard of.
Swedish ubber expert looked through all my stuff, and said the original THS was correct, I shouldn't have had the surgery that I did at Northwest. He said the inflammation from the lesion of THS damaged the nerves/structure behind my eye causing the pain across the left half of my face and behind my eye, even though the lesion is gone.
Basically if I move my eye it feels like an ice pick stabbing from the eye all the way back to the roof of the throat above the tonsil.
What does your shrink say you have? Because I smoked a lot of weed at various times in my life and never Once did it help with any pain I might of had before smoking it. As a matter of fact the weed made my brain focus onto the pain sight like a laser making me wish I wasn't high.
Yes for nerve pain I've noticed similar. If I smoke buds, it can bring the burning nerve to the forefront, however, if I smoke hash or eat a concentrate from the dispensary, it does the opposite.
The psychiatrist doesn't take part in diagnosis, he just writes the meds. I had to shuffle meds around to get on the stop smoking pill. The meds they use for neuropathic pain are old anti depressants from the 70's that aren't used for depression anymore. Since I'm near the max doses before it kills you, he's apparently the guy with the most experience.
