POTS Question

Dose anyone with pots get like heart episodes where your heart races for no reason and it jumps around? Also after you have one do you get really lathargic and cant speak and stuff?

Has Anyone Been Diagnosed With COVID -19?

If so how has is affected your chronic pain?

Does Anyone Here Have Fibromyalgia? Just Curious If Any Of You Get Really Flared Up If You Have Too Much Sugar The Previous Day?

It feels like a burning electrocution. My body is constantly spasming and that feels like being poked with a cattle rod.

Has Anyone Had A Pain Pump & A Scs?

My Dr. is talking about putting in a pain pump & changing me from nortiptolene to gabapantin. All would be used in combination with the spinal cord stimulator. Please understand that my body is the exception not the rule. I suffer from crps in my back, left lower leg (just below knee), & in my left foot. I have had 7 surgeries on my leg/foot already. I have to go see a cardiovascular surgeon on the 30th. I have decreased circulation in my leg/foot. Also, my foot has a… read more

Has Anybody Had To Deal With Chronic Debilitating Plantar Fasciitis With Heel Spurs?

Any help and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I have suffered from plantar fasciitis for several years. It has been too painful to walk in recent months. Wear orthotics daily, plus foot splints nightly and during the day. Finally resorting to cortisone shots in my heels. Just not sure what to expect. Please help

Alone Or Not? Potential Lockdown

I barely fully recovered from the flu after about two weeks. Of course I got secondary infections because that's how it goes, right? Now, with the possibility of a national lockdown, I am torn between being alone and hoping I don't need help and flares don't happen, or going to my new boyfriend's home just in case.

Thoughts?

Coronavirus Problems With Medical Care?

Is anyone else having problems getting medical treatment while Coronavirus is running abundant?

When Do You Go To The ER For Abdominal Pain?

I have undiagnosed severe abdominal pain which makes me unable to eat alot and the last few weeks my stomach keeps gwtting bigger. I dont usually go to the er for the pain unless ive hit a new level of pain and ive been there for an hour. I did that the other day and i was humiliated by the doctor and treated like a druggie. I dont know what to do anymore so in reevaluating the conditions in which i go there and i wanted to know what your opionions were?

Arthritis, My Wrists,

I have arthritis, something with my wrists, my shoulders and arms, no treatment and I don't know what to ask for. I also suffer from depression and anxiety and mild borderline personality.

How Do You Handle Your Pain Without Any Pain Meds?

Back in January my pain doctor said he plans on lowering my pain meds because he said I've reached my " limit".
( Ive been on pain meds since 2008).
My next appointment is on monday so ill find out IF & WHEN he will stop them all together.
Anyway, I was just wondering how everyone is dealing with the med cutbacks & if anyone has any helpful tips to manage the pain.