Chronic pain and substance use health: Important considerations for service providers

[@elizabethmcleod246]

You’re absolutely correct. GP’s and specialists are gas lighting people in acute pain. They no longer examine patients correctly and they also misrepresent the truth about a chronic pain patient’s issues. Iatrogenic injuries are very common. There are many post operative injuries that occur and doctors tend to cover this up. It’s easier for doctors to say someone has a mental health problem than to admit mesh or metal clips have eroded and migrated and are causing chronic pain. I was poly drugged for years with no pain control for my severe nerve compression pain. I needed properly done fluoroscopy guided nerve blocks to prove which nerve was in trouble and decompression surgery. No one in Canada could do the surgery at the time. I needed to go to the US for surgery and BC doctors would not help me. I hired a registered nurse consultant to advocate for me while on death’s door. I had my nerve decompressed 3.5 years too late. It was a severe case. Why was I misdiagnosed with vulvodynia? It was because I was gas lighted by all the doctors I saw. I never filled out Pain Clinic Intake forms when I met my Pain Specialist. Why not? I had no voice. My right to honourable care was not a consideration. The doctors made up everything. This is fraud.

[@jessicak5395]

Is there a a transcription?

[@PainbcCa]

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[@daniellemroz8548]

Until doctor tramatizes you