GOD BLESS this Dr...for not only his many yrs of helping people but for his humanity...he is truly a heroe to many of us a Dr. Who believes above all else...how to treat people like they matter..took his oath very seriously n still does..we all Thank You..n wish u the very best..
how is it possible that there are people with a medical lisence that tells you there is no such thing as fibromyalgia and "you must not have that much pain or you would have come in sooner". I'm so tired of being abused by people with a medical degree!!!
+ClintfromNYtoVA so true. unfortunately I'm allergic to pain meds. I've been in aniflaxis shock more times than I can count but I'm also sensitive to epinephrine. the last time I went to the er in shock they gave me epinephrine then they gave me something else to slow my heart down and I was allergic to that. so I left the er with hives head to toe. the med that put me in shock in the first place was for a rash on my elbow. Now the last doctor went to sent me to a councilor because I told her I'm not going to take a drug just to see if it might work.
The majority of our"doctors" in today's America do not care about chronic pain people.There staff picks up on it and we are treated rudely and they have the power. Dr.Tennant is the exception.
Cloud Dweller It would be wonderful to find a Dr like him..truth is he must be the only one that will stand up for his patients. Drs now just treat you like crap praying you will go away. We're does this leave us? Angry abandoned and in alot of misery. This has become so much worse in the last few years. I absolutely hate going to my Dr anymore and the same with the pharmacy . Ignorance is driving this war on us. Many of us are going to die because of this..I will be one of them ..this is so unfair to us that are and have been compliant to all the rules. To live a life with a little less chronic pain too much to ask.
THEY DONT CARE! The sooner You realize it, the sooner You can get on with Your life! I have had over 8 primaries the last 3 years. Couple have moved, one died and one went into specialty. I did fire a couple and filed complaints. Need to remember they call it PRACTICING medicine for a reason! Some people shouldnt be allowed around other people!
Charlene Cummings Sign the petitions on petition2change.org which will stop the DEA dandelion drs. from refusing us what we need. The 1st is a class action suit against the DEA to protest the new laws hurting us from getting treatment and opiates when we are legitimate non abusing intractable pain patients. The 2nd one stops drs. that might be the kind you speak of that stop them from mistreating you and refusing you on biased opinions. Please also look into supporting drs.of courage who are fighting the fight fir us and paying an awful price and still trying to speak out. Poor Dr. Tenant and his wife were raided by DEA agents and patients record’s while they were out of town defending another dr.at his trial. So he announced at 77 he was forced to retire. Drs. of courage have you tube videos as well. God bless Dr. Forest Tenant and his now abandoned patients. I was just about to call him and see if he could see me. We have to get active to stope all this insanity. There is a huge difference between a drug addict and a legitimate pain patient suffering from chronic intractable pain which is unrelenting. I hope those horrible people that stopped this wonderful man from helping patients have to,face the harm they have done. And I hope that this man is recognized fir his work before he gets older and his modalities are used in helping people. Most if all I want good drs.like him to be practicing with no fear. By the way I am sorry you are suffering. I unfortunately have pain from serious diseases and full body severe injuries. Please sign those petitions and tell people about them.
My heart breaks upon hearing Dr. Tennant was forced to retire bc he actually worked AS A DOCTOR and TREATED the UNTREATED. Medicine has lost a great champion. While I understand his retiring & I hope Dr. Tennant & his wife enjoy his retirement years, it's also disheartening. It's my hope that he will continue to do research that benefits us though. This great man has more of an understanding of pain & how to get it under some semblance if not complete control than any other doctor in this country if not the world. Thank you for the many years of service Dr. Tennant. Question: Dr. Tennant talks about getting hormone levels under control. How does one do this post partial hysterectomy (uterus removed due to severe distention following 2 high risk pregnancies 10yrs apart in term) when doctors refuse to continue to prescribe hormones after finding cysts (in my case 3 benign cysts in 1 breast tho both w/fibrous tissue, one considerably worse than the other but still so bad it's not possible to catch cyst formations upon mammogram w/ultrasound) despite being benign after removal & testing following surgery (breast cyst removal surgery, in my case)? I'm told that adding hormones to my body will make me more apt to suffer w/further cyst development, particularly so for malignant cysts that could lead to needing more than surgical intervention. I went thru early menopause with several years taking hormone pill but after the 3 cysts were located & removed, I was immediately taken off hormone therapy & told I had to tolerate menopause the best way I could but it wouldn't be with hormone replacement therapy. I thought I had gotten thru the worst of the menopause but over the past year or so, particularly since the severe reduction of my pain medication which was adequately controlled more than a year ago, almost 2 now, the pain is considerably worse, my ability to walk has worsened as has the pain in both feet (feels like I'm walking on hard, sharp gravel that's leaving bruises & feels like the bones are busting thru the skin in shards) and excessive sweating these days. I mean the sweating has reached a point where my clothes are drenched in sweat & nothing I do stops it. I've even resorted to applying Secret antiperspirant under my arms, down the front vertically btw my breasts & under each one to get at least a small bit of relief from the just dripping sweat. And still, I feel like my hands & feet are in a meat locker. I'm told it's the result of Raynaud's syndrome but geez I wish they had something to help with it. I'm fighting kidneys that require medicine to keep them functioning & can't take Tylenol or NSAIDs, OTC or RX. My inflammation results in the autoimmune diseases blood tests are extraordinarily high but I can't take anything, or I'm not supposed to take anything b/c of the damages these do to my body. My doc is trying his best to keep up w/what I need but his hands are so tied it's ridiculous.
After being placed on opiods by chronic pain specialist...When my doctor retired, my nightmare started...even though I have multiple spinal / shoulder injuries been on opiods for 10 yrs, finding a new doctor to prescribe has been a nightmare. Now I know why people with severe intractable pain commit suicide.
Christine Gatehouse ...I am so sorry...have you heard of Kratom? Or poppy pod tea? They work the same as pain meds but are easier on the body...please comment back if you would like more info...or use a youtube search or google search. Best wishes.
Bruce Junker yep. How in the world can they stop our meds .. when we need them to Live. Living with severe chronic pain is no joke it's debilitating and I can't see the difference in prescribing medicine for someone with MS or Parkinson's they have to have their medicine just as well so I don't see a difference and our situation with the pain and their situation with their disease only difference is you can't see our pain and it will be heartless for them to stop giving us what we need to survive they will be two choices time to heroin are the drug dealer or suicide
Angie Weston We are a group of people who are being singled out because we are injured or sick.and we cant fight back. I think the agenda is to get rid of us as Dr Trump must think we are useless and non productive. When does the govt have the right to intervene between Dr and patient. This is sick they are causing people so much agony because of some who abuse. The abusers have a right to treatment, but legit pain patients should be left alone.
Many thanks to Dr Tennant, for his work to help patients with AA, and for helping me to understand the many aspects of my condition and prescribing a plan to address them!
this video changed my life. For years upon years, I have had chronic pain issues. I got hit by a car while riding my bicycle, when I was 17 years old. I landed on my head and back. And since that day, I have progressively gone downhill. Doctor after doctor, have examined me and come to the conclusion, that I would have a physical problem . I have several bad discs in my spine, I've had spine surgery. As well as several other surgeries, and some within 3 months of each other. Nowhere in all of these years has anyone, ever said anything, about centralized pain. This theory of centralized pain, would explain why I got the use of my leg back, which was numb to the point of being dead, but yet I still have pain. The surgery did work, its just that my pain, was no longer in my spine... It was actually in my brain. This explains, why so many back injections, have completely failed to clear my pain. This is a revelation in my life and the care and treatment of my pain. It is almost a Eureka moment. God bless you Dr forest Tennant.
Stephanie Hughes because heroin targets the brain. It is the best pain killer.. Period. You feel morphine first in the spine.. Heroin you feel in the head.. Yes it the reason why junkies love it but it is no more dangerous than the other opiates.europe still uses diamorhine. Morphine and acetylated vinegar are what's in heroin.i have Used it for back pain.. Drs. Are useless.unless you need surgery or major procedures. Treat thyself..
If any doctor in Maine sees this post and is willing to help me manage my intractable pain PLEASE contact me asap. Ty!! God bless this doctor for his incredible work and support of chronic pain patients! I need a doctor like this. I've lived with chronic pain for 36 years and have been abandoned by the system thanks to the war on drugs aka the war on pain patients!
John Doughly the DEA are threatening to revoke medical licenses they do not care Chronic pain patients have been thrown to the wind animals at this point are treated better than humans all because of the dopers it's criminal and inhumane what's happening !
My doctors never ever ran these tests. They did ask if I was depressed. I said yes because of the pain and my loss of productivity from being in pain. From there, they try to put me on antidepressants though. They don’t try to find out anything they don’t try to fix anything. All they want to do is give me a pill to go away. I don’t go to the doctor anymore even though I should. I’m too disappointed. That doesn’t work. I’m in pain.
Thank you dr tennant. For your compassion and your expertise on this topic ...you're definitely an expert ..you are a smart man. These diseases are real n these politicians are playing doctor and playing with our lives. Much respect to you.
I wish we had more of the doctors who really know about pain. We need to write our legislators in every state and save those "legacy patients" who aren't dead yet from having legal pain medications discontinued or doses cut too much. It is causing untold harms to so many people that one day this country will look back in shame. Legal opioids do work for many, returning their quality of life and productivity. But with docs too afraid to prescribe due to inhumane state laws, many of these patients are now falling into a huge crevice, a gap in treatment that is costing lives. We need ethical and caring doctors, not those scared witless about prosecution by their own government.
I know is very different for each paitient i have used oain killers off and off for a year a copple of years off and I had a hard time for a montj or two two times when quitting. I dont like the feeling of morphine?, heroine and methadone i have gone cold turkey from as I have done a a lot with psin killers ad the doctors hwre quit it right off with out warning. I have to admit the problem is going with long term pain but I still get exhousted and tired from the opistes. But after the surgery for psin who made my pain a lot worse i have something who is called suicide pains is going on with thr pain. I work made a lot of money on drugs and nobody supect s thing nobody tought I used anything and quitting it goes well for a while but than the pain get so strong but I am feeling like a good high when the pain is good and I dont use drugs. I always looked very young for my age but after dealing with worsened pain with out medication I start looking 10 yeard older. My hope is going to the us getting a pain pump ik my spine as I feel is the only thing who works now is getting a decice inserted with surgery who is the only thing taking this type of nerve pain when it have gone to far. Is so bad i had developed tics and seazures. Luckely I get ambien from the dr now si i can sleep a little i could buy drugs my self but I just wont but is steessing when I dont take a ambien a night.
Maureen BZapMy pain centralized after disc surgery- it didn't help that the surgeon also injured me during surgery by pulling so hard on my arm that my bicep tendon was torn to shreds...(for some reason the tears didn't show up on multiple MRIs, and I only last week was confirmed by surgery to have this painful torn bicep .... seven years after the injury) I'm thankful to be under the care of a pain Dr like Dr Tennant- who understands that he is treating me to reduce pain AND I still search daily to learn more/possibly find a cure for my pain. The struggle is real Re: teaching coping skills and leaving pain patients to deal with itNot only am I a pain patient, I also have lost a friend to pain: a beautiful successful mother who was "treated " by a clinic who pulled her off her medication (when she was still in enormous overwhelming pain) and instead taught her " coping skills".... within two months after she graduated from their program she committed suicide. How is that merciful? First, do no harm? It's like not using a tourniquet and watching a person bleed to death because someone else (an addict) used a tourniquet when they were injecting drugs.
Maureen BZap You should have recognized your privilege and gotten your friend in to see Dr. Tenant or given her some of your medications to help her until she could find another. Horrible what happened to her.
@@chloweful Wow! So you insinuate blame on a chronic pain patient for the suicide of another CCP? Way to go...Not. Did you ever think you could be helping to push her to suicide also?! Dr. Tennant is no longer practicing thanks to the DEA raiding his office so he retired and now she's got plenty to contend with without your shaming her.
Ive had chronic pain for over 20yrs. Ive been to so many specialists,had so many tests, a spinal fusion, and it took a pelvic floor therapist who told me i have this and sent in a fax to my primary dr to refer me to a specialist that she thinks will really help. She also said a good book to read is Explain Pain by David Butler
I had zero head injury. You mentioned --itis. Inflammation. Lyme disease (Bb, and all the common co-infections) is inflammation. I was given prednisone (immune system suppression) for so many decades, until I felt like I was taking that steroid when I was not. Then I was "fired" from so many doctors. Took over 3 years to get diagnosed with Lyme and co-infections. I was for lucky to even get diagnosed and my doctor was called "crazy." But the rhumetologist and all the others did not help me, and called me crazy too. Treatment worked, but conventional medicine caught up with me, and I lost my treatment. I have the same symptoms, bad balance, and more. So I agree, injury can cause this, but also inflammation. So you need to broaden your horizons. In my case, and that of most Lyme victims (inflammation), the doctor does not listen, we just get fired as patients. We get told "you medical history is to complex," and so many other excuses. So it sounds to me like injury is not much different than inflammation (disease, pathogens). Different, but both destroy tissue. Actually, I am so tired of being sick, sometimes it does not seem worth it to keep trying to get well, because no one in conventional medicine listens and insurance WILL NOT pay.
@@justjoy7194 Going to a veterinarian is a novel idea. I'm in the same boat. If you went and you don't mind sharing how did it work for you? We could communicate via PM if you prefer. Thanks!
Why when you suffer significant injury with insurance interests, do doctors suspect "MALINGERING" and won't investigate your specific complaints of injury? In Canada, whenever there is significant injury with Insurance Interests, workers compensation will deny physicians requests for diagnostic tests? In Canada workplace injuries are DENIED medical care under the UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACT; and can only receive medical through workers compensation, were, NON-MEDICAL CLAIMS ADJUSTERS decide your FATE; When does a person get REVENGE for being deliberately crippled?
WORST SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE. I'm so sorry. They will fight with dirty tactics to break you down and give up. But, you still have a medical situation that private insurance won't cover.
I'm born with sickly cell disease it's a very painful disease that makes you feel like you're being stabbed with knives needle ice pick the pain can be everywhere in your face or hands, one minute you're okay and then the next minute you're in a full-blown crisis, crisis mean when the disease is acting up basically. When all those pain clinics came about, people from everywhere was coming to South Florida because we were the only one that did not have the system that track and look to see if you got any medications filled. So many people was coming here from all over and taking up all the medicines then pharmacies and doctors started selling the pills for so much money like $5 to $8 dollars, just for one pill and pharmacist that was taken Insurance before stop taking insurance it was such a bad time for people with sickle-cell we could not get our medications now it's a lot better because of what happened, so because of that some doctors and nurse look at us and sometimes treat us bad because they just think we want the medicine, but they do not understand how painful this disease is and that we need these medicines if I was to lose my doctor I don't know what I would do so it's a very difficult time for people with sickle cell, Thank God the pain clinics got closed down because everything went back to normal again but they stopped prescribing the amounts that we needed, sometimes it doesn't even last, it's been a problem for us with sickle-cell. I hope the people that run the drug enforcement notice and realize that they are people out there with chronic pain and that need their medication and that they should not be putting them through crap, it's already hard enough to deal with so much pain then when you go to your Pharmacy or a pharmacist they look at you and treat you bad and then there are some pharmacies that lie and say they don't have the medication when they do so it's very difficult for people that have chronic pain something needs to be done about it and they need to realize that people that have chronic pain need their pain medication
Sickle cell Life Matters Griffiths My former wonderful dr. that passed away in his 50’s and was an oncologist wrote about sickle cell and how horrible it is. And how it angered him when a sickle called child was doubted on their pain. He wrote about it. I have terrible chronic pain. I miss him so much. I hope you can get the treatment you need. You should not have to suffer from this awful painful disease. I am so sorry.
Dr. Tennant you are one of the most respectable pain physician around. I do respectfully have a counterpoint to one of your beliefs though. You mention that the reason women feel less pain during pregnancy is from "Oxytocin". This is false, the actual reason women feel less pain is from MSC stem cells from umbilitical cord & baby. Scientist are now using the stem cells from after birth to treat many chonic diseases including chronic pain. Considering the mounting evidence, this is by far a way more likely scenario for why when women get pregnant their chronic diseases improve. Anyways keep kick ass !
INFORMATION FROM DR. FOREST TENNANT WHO IS STILL WORKING IN RESEARCH & WRITING ARTICLES THAT HELP THE PAIN COMMUNITY, LONG AFTER HIS RETIREMENT: Please visit our websites for further information: • www.arachnoiditishope.com • www.intractablepainsyndrome.com Books by Dr. Forest Tennant Now Available on Amazon: • Handbook to Recognize Adhesive Arachnoiditis by MRI • Intractable Pain Patients Handbook for Survival • Handbook to Live Well with Adhesive Arachnoiditis •Adhesive Arachnoiditis: An Old Disease Re-emerges in Modern Times • The Strange Medical Saga of Howard Hughes • The Strange Medical Saga of Elvis Presley IMPORTANT: To build a better treatment program, review the "Letters" section on our websites.
Dr. Tennant your AMAZING!!!! I need help!!!!! I have severe Adhesive Arachnoiditis fir almost 4 years now. About a month ago my right ankle swelled up and started giving out on me...burning and severe pain. Its swells uplike a grapefruit everyday and 5 days ago my left ankle started swelling up and burning and weakness and hurting and also my hips, back of my thighs and right knee is killing me. I had an E.M.G. done back in June and Dr.Wakeshima found that I have L-5 nerve root compression. I wanted to know what's compressing my L-5 and I researched all the words on Last M.R.I. done on June 4, 2019 and its Says Fat signal intensity in the Filum Terminal at L4-5-L5-S1- Fibrolipoma of the Filim Terminal- Which means tumor inside my spine and it's right where I have the nerve root compression. I'm having it removed soon. Within the next 10 days. If I can make it that long. I might end up having Emergency surgery on Wednesday September 11,2019. I am in so much pain and the swelling is horrendous. I need help. My idiot pain Management Moron NEVER TOLD ME I HAVE A SPINE CORD TUMOR. I'VE HAD IT ALL SUMMER AND HAVE HAD SYMPTOMS ON AND OFF OF SEVERE NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION. I PISHED TO HAVE THE M.R.I. DONE IN JUNE. SHE WOULDNT ORDER IT. SHE SAID THAT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT THE TEST I NEED THAT IT IT WONT HELP US FIND WHERE THE COMPRESSION IS COMING FROM. ITS THE ONLY 5HING THAT SHIWED US WHERE THE COMPRESSION IS COMING FROM. SHE ORDERED A PAINFUL E.M.G. .SHES A BITCH. EVERYTIME SONW5HINGA WRONG WITH ME SHE TELLS ME I NEED PAINFUL TEST. I ALSO HAVE SPINE FLUID FLOW PROBLEMS AND SHE SAID I NEED A SOUNAL TAP AND SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME...THATS 5HE LAST TEST ON THE LIST. I CAN GET A C.T. SCAN AND ITHER NON INVASIVE TESTS TO SHOW SOUNE FLUID FLIW PROBLEMS. SYRINGEMYELIA. IM SMART AND SHE HATES IT. SHE SAYS ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITIS DOESNT CAUSE NERVE ROOTS COMPRESSION. SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITIS. SHE HAS NO CLUE HOW TO TREAT ME. I LOOK UP MEDS AND QSK HER IF WE CAN TRY IT QND AHE WRITES THE PRESCRIPTIONS..THAT'S IT. SHES WEAK AND DOES NOT DO GOOD STRENGTH TESTS ON ME. I NEED HELP. THANK YOU..SINCERELY, WHENDI S.ROBERTS
In peripheral pain I noticed the factor of post-infection. I wonder. Could the prescription of antibiotics could play a role in the development of pain symptoms? Antibiotics can have some *very* serious side effects. Some of them lasting for quite some time. Even lifetime complications depending on the reaction and notification time to the physician of said side effects.
What can you do if nothing for central sensitization works, at all? No other pain treatments work. I’ve really tried everything, except hcg and opioids…
Thank you so much. I had a myleograhm in 1976 with pantopaque dye. I have scoliosis, spinal bifida occulr,true double spinal cord that is tethered to my tail bone...I had detethering preformed at Johns Hopkins in '08. Sadly it retetthered. Dr.Donlin Long said I had the worst back he has ever saw. I have been on every pain killer I think there is,morphine, opanana,fentanyl patch,methodone....the only one that helps at all is loratab. The best I felt in my life was when I was pregnant. I was told I would never be able to have children,I had 2 completely natural. Was also told I would be paralyzed by the time I was 30. Oh also ha SCSIMPLANTED and removed. Now I'm going to seek help with the hormones. Just makes so much sense. Ino 89 an MRI stated I had flattened pituitary. No doctor ever said a word about this.. I also have adhesive arachnoiditis,neuro genie bladder,and self cath. Bowels are unreal. Tonight you have given me new hope. Thank you sir
I was placed into a physiotherapy program, with 2 undiagnosed spinal injuries, 1 undiagnosed shoulder injury. All my complaints to doctor were denied investigation; 22 doctors later, 1 spinal injury was finally diagnosed as a "Chronic T9 Vertebral Fracture" my complaint of severe tailbone pain was denied investigation. 3 yrs and 5 orthopedic surgeons, 3 neurosurgeons later. I finally received a physical examination, and was diagnosed with exactly what I suspected and requested HELP for; "COCCYDYNIA" When does it become medical malpractice, when a doctor won't order a single diagnostic test, or conduct a physical examination to investigate your specific complaint?
In 2012 I discovered both my MRI scans were deliberately falsified to state, "No Reason for Pain Found" this is workers compensation in Canada; I made complaint to our Government Body, "College of Physicians + Surgeons" I should have just pissed on myself, cause the investigation was a JOKE;
I'm going through the same thing right now. All of a sudden my doc is no longer willing to send me to any specialist. Says she needs to have a good reason to send me anywhere. I guess my unrelenting pain and the sheer volume of symptoms aren't good enough reasons. It's not my fault that the other specialists threw me back and forth like a hot potato, claiming to not know what was going on with me.
I've also learned one thing in my journey to unravel all that is going on with me. If you ever tell them what you think it is, you might as well forget a diagnosis. Even though I got confirmation at my last rheumatologist appointment that I was right, he didn't want to officially diagnose me. His reason? He doesn't treat it. I kept after him for an official diagnosis. He finally gave one. 2 conditions it was already well documented that I have. No mention of his previous "unofficial" diagnosis. So now I know what I have for sure and that I was right, but I can't get treatement because he refused to diagnose me. And the best part of all is why I think he did that. Because it's a painful condition that has no accepted form of treatment but control of symptoms and the primary symptom is pain. That would explain why he suggested I go to my pain specialist for diagnosis. I would have if he wasn't an ego maniac that thinks he was going to cure ALL of my problems with shots in my back. Oh and if I started eating a vegan diet and lost a lot of weight. And started taking vitamins. Then I'd have been cured. If he would have listened to me, I already eat meatless dinners 2-4 nights a week. I do eat fresh vegetables and leafy greens and lean meat when I do eat it. I was not able to lose more than 5lbs. However, I did lose 30lbs in a very short time period from not being able to eat due to pain issues and I still hurt. I also told him I can't take certain vitamins because I have a tendency to have terrible reactions to them. Just like most medications. But no, if I had just listened to him I'd be A-okay. I tried getting a new pain doc one time. He was worse than the other guy so I just went back. Can't win for losing. Even though it took awhile for you and you went through hell to get it, I'm glad that you finally got your diagnosis. I am fairly certain that a large part of not being able to get a proper diagnosis is coming from the possibility that it will be something painful that can't be cured, they don't want the responsibility to treat something they might have to give pain control for. They're licenses mean more than people's lives and quality of those lives do. The prognosis is pretty grim, when you consider that we are going through this now and there are more joining our ranks every day. And what about our kids and their kids? Ugh. It just makes me sick.
Anyone know of a reputable place to buy HCG? I see this website with two different types and $$$ expensive per month. Any other suggestions of where to buy this product?
Anna Bache I wish I could say yes, but I really don't know. I have PTSD; hwr, I'm also an adult child of an physically abusive birth father who not only beat the crap out of me, he threw me into a cornered edge of a wall after I tried to pull him off & stop him from choking my birth mother. (the corner was facing out, not inward - hence some of the spinal damage I've got.
I guess there is some evidence that there might be an actual brain injury in certain cases. I was reading something about it not too long ago. I have non-combat related PTSD from a wide variety of childhood experiences. I was looking for some answers on treatments that actually work and ran across that article. It was in a medical journal, I believe. If I can find it, I'll link it to you.
Why does Radio Freqency abbrasion in the knee dont help a failed total knee replacement with pain, swelling & Inflammation? But ibuprofen & mobic does. But yet I can't have either. Is that why they always blame it on fibromyalgia because they dont know why?
Well now I am scared to turn into a vegetable. I have had pain in both arms and both legs elbow to wrist and from knee to ankle.For ten years I have had this problem with minor help. Because my doctors are not educated enough to see that my thalamus that has scar tissue on it is what Is causing my pain.Mine gets worse when I'm idle,and not terrifying while active. I am always scared of what my body can do to me.To me it works like this. It's like touching a hot stove your hand touches it sends signal to brain to move it. Well it's like my brain says hmmm you arms are getting crushed and your legs to. Also I have low testosterone. And probably three others I haven't got checked. How long before I am a vegetable 😞
@@ariajade7852 OMG same here in the US. If I have to hear about how they should have safe injection sites one more time while people like us are told to just crawl off some where and die I swear I will pop a vein. They are bending ass over backwards here to cater to the poor dears.
Jade'sReproach Hollket. Yup I’m in Ontario and it is unbelievable how they are treated! On one side of the street there’s a dispensary and across the road is a methadone clinic!! And also the medical majiuana (spelt incorrectly) that’s the new thing ! Smh
I go to Italy and Colombia for my pain medicine. They don’t have an attitude towards opioids. Vietnam Veteran thrown off VA pain mngmnt. VA no longer treats intractable pain nor phantom pain. They offer ketamine. So do gay night clubs. Not my first choice!
What the DEA did with the Gestapo tactics to this man is a travesty. One of my friends committed suicide because dr. Tenant could not write her her pain medicine anymore and it was more than she could stand.
My deepest sympathies for your friend… I understand all too well. For I too was one of his patients that he had to stop treating in 2016. I too, could not find another dr to manage my pain, went thru withdrawals, finally saw my prior neurologist who wrote me about 25% of the pain meds Dr. T had rx, up until a couple months ago, when the practice she is in insisted I become one of their “pain patients” and have told me that it will be gradual but since I am on “way too much pain meds” and “it is dangerous” I will be gradually tapered down as a courtesy to my neuro dr, they are not doing this immediately, “just gradually”. The DEA cost me a functioning life, my marriage of over 30 years, and I’m treated like criminal by my own drs at this point. My sister lives in CA, I live in the Midwest. She has cancer and so far I am unable to get out to see her, to be with her, bc I can not coordinate my meds and my care… have to see this new pain mgt dr every 2 months to be drug tested of course.I have never done a single illegal thing about these meds, followed every law, every rule, taken every insult and every abuse, and for what? STILL can not even be with my little sister when she could be dying? Everyone and anyone should be really afraid, because this could happen to YOU… to any law abiding US citizen, you are one genetic fault or car accident away from living MY life, and you should be very, very afraid over what our government did and is doing today.
If only more doctors cared about pain and were half the knowledge of this guy
Now that Man is a Real Doctor.
Amen!
GOD BLESS this Dr...for not only his many yrs of helping people but for his humanity...he is truly a heroe to many of us a Dr. Who believes above all else...how to treat people like they matter..took his oath very seriously n still does..we all Thank You..n wish u the very best..
God send to humanity.
And he's a REAL Man. A God send to Humanity.
He spews junk science. Yeah he is a great doctor
how is it possible that there are people with a medical lisence that tells you there is no such thing as fibromyalgia and "you must not have that much pain or you would have come in sooner". I'm so tired of being abused by people with a medical degree!!!
+ClintfromNYtoVA so true. unfortunately I'm allergic to pain meds. I've been in aniflaxis shock more times than I can count but I'm also sensitive to epinephrine. the last time I went to the er in shock they gave me epinephrine then they gave me something else to slow my heart down and I was allergic to that. so I left the er with hives head to toe. the med that put me in shock in the first place was for a rash on my elbow. Now the last doctor went to sent me to a councilor because I told her I'm not going to take a drug just to see if it might work.
The majority of our"doctors" in today's America do not care about chronic pain people.There staff picks up on it and we are treated rudely and they have the power.
Dr.Tennant is the exception.
Cloud Dweller It would be wonderful to find a Dr like him..truth is he must be the only one that will stand up for his patients. Drs now just treat you like crap praying you will go away. We're does this leave us? Angry abandoned and in alot of misery. This has become so much worse in the last few years. I absolutely hate going to my Dr anymore and the same with the pharmacy . Ignorance is driving this war on us. Many of us are going to die because of this..I will be one of them ..this is so unfair to us that are and have been compliant to all the rules. To live a life with a little less chronic pain too much to ask.
THEY DONT CARE! The sooner You realize it, the sooner You can get on with Your life! I have had over 8 primaries the last 3 years. Couple have moved, one died and one went into specialty. I did fire a couple and filed complaints. Need to remember they call it PRACTICING medicine for a reason! Some people shouldnt be allowed around other people!
Charlene Cummings Sign the petitions on petition2change.org which will stop the DEA dandelion drs. from refusing us what we need. The 1st is a class action suit against the DEA to protest the new laws hurting us from getting treatment and opiates when we are legitimate non abusing intractable pain patients. The 2nd one stops drs. that might be the kind you speak of that stop them from mistreating you and refusing you on biased opinions. Please also look into supporting drs.of courage who are fighting the fight fir us and paying an awful price and still trying to speak out. Poor Dr. Tenant and his wife were raided by DEA agents and patients record’s while they were out of town defending another dr.at his trial. So he announced at 77 he was forced to retire. Drs. of courage have you tube videos as well. God bless Dr. Forest Tenant and his now abandoned patients. I was just about to call him and see if he could see me. We have to get active to stope all this insanity. There is a huge difference between a drug addict and a legitimate pain patient suffering from chronic intractable pain which is unrelenting. I hope those horrible people that stopped this wonderful man from helping patients have to,face the harm they have done. And I hope that this man is recognized fir his work before he gets older and his modalities are used in helping people. Most if all I want good drs.like him to be practicing with no fear. By the way I am sorry you are suffering. I unfortunately have pain from serious diseases and full body severe injuries. Please sign those petitions and tell people about them.
Dr T is still helping patients today with his foundation 💜
Enormous respect for Dr. Tennant.
My heart breaks upon hearing Dr. Tennant was forced to retire bc he actually worked AS A DOCTOR and TREATED the UNTREATED. Medicine has lost a great champion. While I understand his retiring & I hope Dr. Tennant & his wife enjoy his retirement years, it's also disheartening. It's my hope that he will continue to do research that benefits us though. This great man has more of an understanding of pain & how to get it under some semblance if not complete control than any other doctor in this country if not the world. Thank you for the many years of service Dr. Tennant.
Question: Dr. Tennant talks about getting hormone levels under control. How does one do this post partial hysterectomy (uterus removed due to severe distention following 2 high risk pregnancies 10yrs apart in term) when doctors refuse to continue to prescribe hormones after finding cysts (in my case 3 benign cysts in 1 breast tho both w/fibrous tissue, one considerably worse than the other but still so bad it's not possible to catch cyst formations upon mammogram w/ultrasound) despite being benign after removal & testing following surgery (breast cyst removal surgery, in my case)? I'm told that adding hormones to my body will make me more apt to suffer w/further cyst development, particularly so for malignant cysts that could lead to needing more than surgical intervention. I went thru early menopause with several years taking hormone pill but after the 3 cysts were located & removed, I was immediately taken off hormone therapy & told I had to tolerate menopause the best way I could but it wouldn't be with hormone replacement therapy. I thought I had gotten thru the worst of the menopause but over the past year or so, particularly since the severe reduction of my pain medication which was adequately controlled more than a year ago, almost 2 now, the pain is considerably worse, my ability to walk has worsened as has the pain in both feet (feels like I'm walking on hard, sharp gravel that's leaving bruises & feels like the bones are busting thru the skin in shards) and excessive sweating these days. I mean the sweating has reached a point where my clothes are drenched in sweat & nothing I do stops it. I've even resorted to applying Secret antiperspirant under my arms, down the front vertically btw my breasts & under each one to get at least a small bit of relief from the just dripping sweat. And still, I feel like my hands & feet are in a meat locker. I'm told it's the result of Raynaud's syndrome but geez I wish they had something to help with it. I'm fighting kidneys that require medicine to keep them functioning & can't take Tylenol or NSAIDs, OTC or RX. My inflammation results in the autoimmune diseases blood tests are extraordinarily high but I can't take anything, or I'm not supposed to take anything b/c of the damages these do to my body. My doc is trying his best to keep up w/what I need but his hands are so tied it's ridiculous.
FYI, Nobody should take NSAIDS, Tylenol (causes bleed outs and does nothing for heart attacks) etc., on a regular basis.
After being placed on opiods by chronic pain specialist...When my doctor retired, my nightmare started...even though I have multiple spinal / shoulder injuries been on opiods for 10 yrs, finding a new doctor to prescribe has been a nightmare. Now I know why people with severe intractable pain commit suicide.
Bruce Junker If you are still around...please share your story of what happened after your comment?
Christine Gatehouse ...I am so sorry...have you heard of Kratom? Or poppy pod tea? They work the same as pain meds but are easier on the body...please comment back if you would like more info...or use a youtube search or google search. Best wishes.
Bruce Junker yep. How in the world can they stop our meds .. when we need them to Live. Living with severe chronic pain is no joke it's debilitating and I can't see the difference in prescribing medicine for someone with MS or Parkinson's they have to have their medicine just as well so I don't see a difference and our situation with the pain and their situation with their disease only difference is you can't see our pain and it will be heartless for them to stop giving us what we need to survive they will be two choices time to heroin are the drug dealer or suicide
I'm going crazy because of the pain.
Angie Weston We are a group of people who are being singled out because we are injured or sick.and we cant fight back. I think the agenda is to get rid of us as Dr Trump must think we are useless and non productive. When does the govt have the right to intervene between Dr and patient. This is sick they are causing people so much agony because of some who abuse. The abusers have a right to treatment, but legit pain patients should be left alone.
Many thanks to Dr Tennant, for his work to help patients with AA, and for helping me to understand the many aspects of my condition and prescribing a plan to address them!
Dr. Tennant is a hero to many of us who are CPPs.
He has empathy and compassion, you could see he has a heart for his patients not many of these doctors are around today.
this video changed my life. For years upon years, I have had chronic pain issues. I got hit by a car while riding my bicycle, when I was 17 years old. I landed on my head and back. And since that day, I have progressively gone downhill. Doctor after doctor, have examined me and come to the conclusion, that I would have a physical problem . I have several bad discs in my spine, I've had spine surgery. As well as several other surgeries, and some within 3 months of each other. Nowhere in all of these years has anyone, ever said anything, about centralized pain.
This theory of centralized pain, would explain why I got the use of my leg back, which was numb to the point of being dead, but yet I still have pain. The surgery did work, its just that my pain, was no longer in my spine... It was actually in my brain. This explains, why so many back injections, have completely failed to clear my pain.
This is a revelation in my life and the care and treatment of my pain. It is almost a Eureka moment. God bless you Dr forest Tennant.
Stephanie Hughes Dr. Tennant and this video changed my life as well.
Stephanie Hughes because heroin targets the brain. It is the best pain killer.. Period. You feel morphine first in the spine.. Heroin you feel in the head.. Yes it the reason why junkies love it but it is no more dangerous than the other opiates.europe still uses diamorhine. Morphine and acetylated vinegar are what's in heroin.i have Used it for back pain.. Drs. Are useless.unless you need surgery or major procedures. Treat thyself..
@@kevinmacnaughton4591 Isn't Heroin too dangerous now thanks to the illegal China et al Fentanyl?
@@kevinmacnaughton4591 funny you say that because herion tried it once and it really help me
Where are all the doctors that think and speak like this man???? Most won’t even have a CONVERSATION about this topic!!!!
Wow, I’m constantly freezing, I understand now.
If any doctor in Maine sees this post and is willing to help me manage my intractable pain PLEASE contact me asap. Ty!!
God bless this doctor for his incredible work and support of chronic pain patients! I need a doctor like this. I've lived with chronic pain for 36 years and have been abandoned by the system thanks to the war on drugs aka the war on pain patients!
John Doughly check vitals.com for a dr. In your area. See also Functional Living with Chronic Pain blog for finding a doctor
John Doughly the DEA are threatening to revoke medical licenses they do not care Chronic pain patients have been thrown to the wind animals at this point are treated better than humans all because of the dopers it's criminal and inhumane what's happening !
@@jameshall4401 and most of them have died off by this point. I mean having to end their pain because of the politician.
what countries can chronic pain sufferers move to now that the DEA wants us tortured
health restoration mexico
@@barb7124 Is it true that there's decent pain care in Mexico?
Angela Siegfried don't go to Mexico.
My doctors never ever ran these tests. They did ask if I was depressed. I said yes because of the pain and my loss of productivity from being in pain. From there, they try to put me on antidepressants though. They don’t try to find out anything they don’t try to fix anything. All they want to do is give me a pill to go away. I don’t go to the doctor anymore even though I should. I’m too disappointed. That doesn’t work. I’m in pain.
Thank you dr tennant. For your compassion and your expertise on this topic ...you're definitely an expert ..you are a smart man. These diseases are real n these politicians are playing doctor and playing with our lives.
Much respect to you.
Exactly, we're dead.
Thank you Dr Tennant! You are a blessing!!
Thank you for sharing this. I am on year 4 chronic pain.. I am less than half way this video it is fantastic. Thank you. From Finland & UK
I wish we had more of the doctors who really know about pain. We need to write our legislators in every state and save those "legacy patients" who aren't dead yet from having legal pain medications discontinued or doses cut too much. It is causing untold harms to so many people that one day this country will look back in shame. Legal opioids do work for many, returning their quality of life and productivity. But with docs too afraid to prescribe due to inhumane state laws, many of these patients are now falling into a huge crevice, a gap in treatment that is costing lives. We need ethical and caring doctors, not those scared witless about prosecution by their own government.
I know is very different for each paitient i have used oain killers off and off for a year a copple of years off and I had a hard time for a montj or two two times when quitting.
I dont like the feeling of morphine?, heroine and methadone i have gone cold turkey from as I have done a a lot with psin killers ad the doctors hwre quit it right off with out warning.
I have to admit the problem is going with long term pain but I still get exhousted and tired from the opistes.
But after the surgery for psin who made my pain a lot worse i have something who is called suicide pains is going on with thr pain.
I work made a lot of money on drugs and nobody supect s thing nobody tought I used anything and quitting it goes well for a while but than the pain get so strong but I am feeling like a good high when the pain is good and I dont use drugs.
I always looked very young for my age but after dealing with worsened pain with out medication I start looking 10 yeard older.
My hope is going to the us getting a pain pump ik my spine as I feel is the only thing who works now is getting a decice inserted with surgery who is the only thing taking this type of nerve pain when it have gone to far.
Is so bad i had developed tics and seazures.
Luckely I get ambien from the dr now si i can sleep a little i could buy drugs my self but I just wont but is steessing when I dont take a ambien a night.
This is the video that changed my life
Maureen BZapMy pain centralized after disc surgery- it didn't help that the surgeon also injured me during surgery by pulling so hard on my arm that my bicep tendon was torn to shreds...(for some reason the tears didn't show up on multiple MRIs, and I only last week was confirmed by surgery to have this painful torn bicep .... seven years after the injury) I'm thankful to be under the care of a pain Dr like Dr Tennant- who understands that he is treating me to reduce pain AND I still search daily to learn more/possibly find a cure for my pain. The struggle is real Re: teaching coping skills and leaving pain patients to deal with itNot only am I a pain patient, I also have lost a friend to pain: a beautiful successful mother who was "treated " by a clinic who pulled her off her medication (when she was still in enormous overwhelming pain) and instead taught her " coping skills".... within two months after she graduated from their program she committed suicide. How is that merciful? First, do no harm? It's like not using a tourniquet and watching a person bleed to death because someone else (an addict) used a tourniquet when they were injecting drugs.
Maureen BZap You should have recognized your privilege and gotten your friend in to see Dr. Tenant or given her some of your medications to help her until she could find another.
Horrible what happened to her.
@@chloweful Wow! So you insinuate blame on a chronic pain patient for the suicide of another CCP? Way to go...Not.
Did you ever think you could be helping to push her to suicide also?!
Dr. Tennant is no longer practicing thanks to the DEA raiding his office so he retired and now she's got plenty to contend with without your shaming her.
ありがとうございます。生活の辛さで人生を自由なふうに送りがたいです。😢
Ive had chronic pain for over 20yrs. Ive been to so many specialists,had so many tests, a spinal fusion, and it took a pelvic floor therapist who told me i have this and sent in a fax to my primary dr to refer me to a specialist that she thinks will really help. She also said a good book to read is Explain Pain by David Butler
I had zero head injury. You mentioned --itis. Inflammation. Lyme disease (Bb, and all the common co-infections) is inflammation. I was given prednisone (immune system suppression) for so many decades, until I felt like I was taking that steroid when I was not. Then I was "fired" from so many doctors. Took over 3 years to get diagnosed with Lyme and co-infections. I was for lucky to even get diagnosed and my doctor was called "crazy." But the rhumetologist and all the others did not help me, and called me crazy too. Treatment worked, but conventional medicine caught up with me, and I lost my treatment. I have the same symptoms, bad balance, and more. So I agree, injury can cause this, but also inflammation. So you need to broaden your horizons. In my case, and that of most Lyme victims (inflammation), the doctor does not listen, we just get fired as patients. We get told "you medical history is to complex," and so many other excuses. So it sounds to me like injury is not much different than inflammation (disease, pathogens). Different, but both destroy tissue. Actually, I am so tired of being sick, sometimes it does not seem worth it to keep trying to get well, because no one in conventional medicine listens and insurance WILL NOT pay.
Your not crazy, The Doctors are. I'm about ready to go to a Veterinarian. I'm crippled with a broken hip. Pain all day.
@@justjoy7194 Going to a veterinarian is a novel idea. I'm in the same boat. If you went and you don't mind sharing how did it work for you? We could communicate via PM if you prefer. Thanks!
Why when you suffer significant injury with insurance interests, do doctors suspect "MALINGERING" and won't investigate your specific complaints of injury? In Canada, whenever there is significant injury with Insurance Interests, workers compensation will deny physicians requests for diagnostic tests? In Canada workplace injuries are DENIED medical care under the UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACT; and can only receive medical through workers compensation, were, NON-MEDICAL CLAIMS ADJUSTERS decide your FATE; When does a person get REVENGE for being deliberately crippled?
WORST SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE. I'm so sorry. They will fight with dirty tactics to break you down and give up. But, you still have a medical situation that private insurance won't cover.
@J Mac same thing in US.
Absolutely amazed! Definitely worth looking into! Thank you for sharing this information
I'm born with sickly cell disease it's a very painful disease that makes you feel like you're being stabbed with knives needle ice pick the pain can be everywhere in your face or hands, one minute you're okay and then the next minute you're in a full-blown crisis, crisis mean when the disease is acting up basically. When all those pain clinics came about, people from everywhere was coming to South Florida because we were the only one that did not have the system that track and look to see if you got any medications filled. So many people was coming here from all over and taking up all the medicines then pharmacies and doctors started selling the pills for so much money like $5 to $8 dollars, just for one pill and pharmacist that was taken Insurance before stop taking insurance it was such a bad time for people with sickle-cell we could not get our medications now it's a lot better because of what happened, so because of that some doctors and nurse look at us and sometimes treat us bad because they just think we want the medicine, but they do not understand how painful this disease is and that we need these medicines if I was to lose my doctor I don't know what I would do so it's a very difficult time for people with sickle cell, Thank God the pain clinics got closed down because everything went back to normal again but they stopped prescribing the amounts that we needed, sometimes it doesn't even last, it's been a problem for us with sickle-cell. I hope the people that run the drug enforcement notice and realize that they are people out there with chronic pain and that need their medication and that they should not be putting them through crap, it's already hard enough to deal with so much pain then when you go to your Pharmacy or a pharmacist they look at you and treat you bad and then there are some pharmacies that lie and say they don't have the medication when they do so it's very difficult for people that have chronic pain something needs to be done about it and they need to realize that people that have chronic pain need their pain medication
Sickle cell Life Matters Griffiths My former wonderful dr. that passed away in his 50’s and was an oncologist wrote about sickle cell and how horrible it is. And how it angered him when a sickle called child was doubted on their pain. He wrote about it. I have terrible chronic pain. I miss him so much. I hope you can get the treatment you need. You should not have to suffer from this awful painful disease. I am so sorry.
Dr. Tennant you are one of the most respectable pain physician around. I do respectfully have a counterpoint to one of your beliefs though. You mention that the reason women feel less pain during pregnancy is from "Oxytocin". This is false, the actual reason women feel less pain is from MSC stem cells from umbilitical cord & baby. Scientist are now using the stem cells from after birth to treat many chonic diseases including chronic pain. Considering the mounting evidence, this is by far a way more likely scenario for why when women get pregnant their chronic diseases improve. Anyways keep kick ass !
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What about meningitis as a child can that cause this pain problem years later too
can somebody tell me why i cant find dr tennants show on youtube anymore?
A good doctor who cares.
I would like to know what hormones we need to have checked for, both men and women.
He posted it
Great presentation, is there an update though about developments since? It's from 2014.
Ya, life for chronic pain patients and their doctors suck!
Dr. Tennant your AMAZING!!!! I need help!!!!! I have severe Adhesive Arachnoiditis fir almost 4 years now. About a month ago my right ankle swelled up and started giving out on me...burning and severe pain. Its swells uplike a grapefruit everyday and 5 days ago my left ankle started swelling up and burning and weakness and hurting and also my hips, back of my thighs and right knee is killing me. I had an E.M.G. done back in June and Dr.Wakeshima found that I have L-5 nerve root compression. I wanted to know what's compressing my L-5 and I researched all the words on Last M.R.I. done on June 4, 2019 and its Says Fat signal intensity in the Filum Terminal at L4-5-L5-S1- Fibrolipoma of the Filim Terminal- Which means tumor inside my spine and it's right where I have the nerve root compression. I'm having it removed soon. Within the next 10 days. If I can make it that long. I might end up having Emergency surgery on Wednesday September 11,2019. I am in so much pain and the swelling is horrendous. I need help. My idiot pain Management Moron NEVER TOLD ME I HAVE A SPINE CORD TUMOR. I'VE HAD IT ALL SUMMER AND HAVE HAD SYMPTOMS ON AND OFF OF SEVERE NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION. I PISHED TO HAVE THE M.R.I. DONE IN JUNE. SHE WOULDNT ORDER IT. SHE SAID THAT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT THE TEST I NEED THAT IT IT WONT HELP US FIND WHERE THE COMPRESSION IS COMING FROM. ITS THE ONLY 5HING THAT SHIWED US WHERE THE COMPRESSION IS COMING FROM. SHE ORDERED A PAINFUL E.M.G. .SHES A BITCH. EVERYTIME SONW5HINGA WRONG WITH ME SHE TELLS ME I NEED PAINFUL TEST. I ALSO HAVE SPINE FLUID FLOW PROBLEMS AND SHE SAID I NEED A SOUNAL TAP AND SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME...THATS 5HE LAST TEST ON THE LIST. I CAN GET A C.T. SCAN AND ITHER NON INVASIVE TESTS TO SHOW SOUNE FLUID FLIW PROBLEMS. SYRINGEMYELIA. IM SMART AND SHE HATES IT. SHE SAYS ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITIS DOESNT CAUSE NERVE ROOTS COMPRESSION. SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITIS. SHE HAS NO CLUE HOW TO TREAT ME. I LOOK UP MEDS AND QSK HER IF WE CAN TRY IT QND AHE WRITES THE PRESCRIPTIONS..THAT'S IT. SHES WEAK AND DOES NOT DO GOOD STRENGTH TESTS ON ME. I NEED HELP. THANK YOU..SINCERELY, WHENDI S.ROBERTS
He's in San Diego, CA. My dad sees him currently.
Please help me..12 years and 2 back surgeries later I'm so much worse than I was before..
In peripheral pain I noticed the factor of post-infection. I wonder. Could the prescription of antibiotics could play a role in the development of pain symptoms?
Antibiotics can have some *very* serious side effects. Some of them lasting for quite some time. Even lifetime complications depending on the reaction and notification time to the physician of said side effects.
What can you do if nothing for central sensitization works, at all? No other pain treatments work. I’ve really tried everything, except hcg and opioids…
Thank you so much. I had a myleograhm in 1976 with pantopaque dye. I have scoliosis, spinal bifida occulr,true double spinal cord that is tethered to my tail bone...I had detethering preformed at Johns Hopkins in '08. Sadly it retetthered. Dr.Donlin Long said I had the worst back he has ever saw. I have been on every pain killer I think there is,morphine, opanana,fentanyl patch,methodone....the only one that helps at all is loratab. The best I felt in my life was when I was pregnant. I was told I would never be able to have children,I had 2 completely natural. Was also told I would be paralyzed by the time I was 30. Oh also ha SCSIMPLANTED and removed. Now I'm going to seek help with the hormones. Just makes so much sense. Ino 89 an MRI stated I had flattened pituitary. No doctor ever said a word about this.. I also have adhesive arachnoiditis,neuro genie bladder,and self cath. Bowels are unreal. Tonight you have given me new hope. Thank you sir
i was diagnosed with Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome in 2005. waiting to hear if it has retethered.
I was placed into a physiotherapy program, with 2 undiagnosed spinal injuries, 1 undiagnosed shoulder injury. All my complaints to doctor were denied investigation; 22 doctors later, 1 spinal injury was finally diagnosed as a "Chronic T9 Vertebral Fracture" my complaint of severe tailbone pain was denied investigation. 3 yrs and 5 orthopedic surgeons, 3 neurosurgeons later. I finally received a physical examination, and was diagnosed with exactly what I suspected and requested HELP for; "COCCYDYNIA" When does it become medical malpractice, when a doctor won't order a single diagnostic test, or conduct a physical examination to investigate your specific complaint?
Bruce Junker You can still sue. You can sue every one of those doctors. You can file complaints with your state's medical board.
In 2012 I discovered both my MRI scans were deliberately falsified to state, "No Reason for Pain Found" this is workers compensation in Canada; I made complaint to our Government Body, "College of Physicians + Surgeons" I should have just pissed on myself, cause the investigation was a JOKE;
I'm going through the same thing right now. All of a sudden my doc is no longer willing to send me to any specialist. Says she needs to have a good reason to send me anywhere. I guess my unrelenting pain and the sheer volume of symptoms aren't good enough reasons. It's not my fault that the other specialists threw me back and forth like a hot potato, claiming to not know what was going on with me.
I've also learned one thing in my journey to unravel all that is going on with me. If you ever tell them what you think it is, you might as well forget a diagnosis. Even though I got confirmation at my last rheumatologist appointment that I was right, he didn't want to officially diagnose me. His reason? He doesn't treat it. I kept after him for an official diagnosis. He finally gave one. 2 conditions it was already well documented that I have. No mention of his previous "unofficial" diagnosis. So now I know what I have for sure and that I was right, but I can't get treatement because he refused to diagnose me. And the best part of all is why I think he did that. Because it's a painful condition that has no accepted form of treatment but control of symptoms and the primary symptom is pain. That would explain why he suggested I go to my pain specialist for diagnosis. I would have if he wasn't an ego maniac that thinks he was going to cure ALL of my problems with shots in my back. Oh and if I started eating a vegan diet and lost a lot of weight. And started taking vitamins. Then I'd have been cured. If he would have listened to me, I already eat meatless dinners 2-4 nights a week. I do eat fresh vegetables and leafy greens and lean meat when I do eat it. I was not able to lose more than 5lbs. However, I did lose 30lbs in a very short time period from not being able to eat due to pain issues and I still hurt. I also told him I can't take certain vitamins because I have a tendency to have terrible reactions to them. Just like most medications. But no, if I had just listened to him I'd be A-okay. I tried getting a new pain doc one time. He was worse than the other guy so I just went back. Can't win for losing. Even though it took awhile for you and you went through hell to get it, I'm glad that you finally got your diagnosis. I am fairly certain that a large part of not being able to get a proper diagnosis is coming from the possibility that it will be something painful that can't be cured, they don't want the responsibility to treat something they might have to give pain control for. They're licenses mean more than people's lives and quality of those lives do. The prognosis is pretty grim, when you consider that we are going through this now and there are more joining our ranks every day. And what about our kids and their kids? Ugh. It just makes me sick.
Please i contact dr Forest tennant how i do
Anyone know of a reputable place to buy HCG? I see this website with two different types and $$$ expensive per month. Any other suggestions of where to buy this product?
Do you mean HGH and did you ever find a good source?
Doctor are you still in practice if so where?
No, sadly he doesn't practice anymore. They forced him into retirement when the DEA attacked.
He does see patients, just not the typical way. He's located in San Diego, CA. My dad sees him.
Chronic pain consumes you. It changes you you forget who you were before it and like a black hole it sucks the very life force from your soul
Now I know why a potent Lidocaine, ketamine topical cream no longer works for me on my foot pain.
Is PTSD also considered a traumatic brain injury?
Anna Bache I wish I could say yes, but I really don't know. I have PTSD; hwr, I'm also an adult child of an physically abusive birth father who not only beat the crap out of me, he threw me into a cornered edge of a wall after I tried to pull him off & stop him from choking my birth mother. (the corner was facing out, not inward - hence some of the spinal damage I've got.
I guess there is some evidence that there might be an actual brain injury in certain cases. I was reading something about it not too long ago. I have non-combat related PTSD from a wide variety of childhood experiences. I was looking for some answers on treatments that actually work and ran across that article. It was in a medical journal, I believe. If I can find it, I'll link it to you.
PTSD is not considered a TBI.
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abbrasion in the knee dont help a failed total knee replacement with pain, swelling & Inflammation? But ibuprofen & mobic does. But yet I can't have either. Is that why they always blame it on fibromyalgia because they dont know why?
Might have to move to Mexico.
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Well now I am scared to turn into a vegetable. I have had pain in both arms and both legs elbow to wrist and from knee to ankle.For ten years I have had this problem with minor help. Because my doctors are not educated enough to see that my thalamus that has scar tissue on it is what Is causing my pain.Mine gets worse when I'm idle,and not terrifying while active. I am always scared of what my body can do to me.To me it works like this. It's like touching a hot stove your hand touches it sends signal to brain to move it. Well it's like my brain says hmmm you arms are getting crushed and your legs to. Also I have low testosterone. And probably three others I haven't got checked. How long before I am a vegetable 😞
I've been living with severe chronic pain for over 2 decades have zero hormones, DHEA, etc., and I'm not a vegetable yet.
Are you still around?
"Hello. My name is Mr. Barrack... Obama."
Sorry, his voice has a remarkable resemblance to our previous president lol.
Okay, back to listening...
I always argue with junkies... Cuz they can't handle it.. They don't want others to benefit from it.. Sad. Selfish people...
Kevin Macnaughton Tell me about it... Here in Canada they get more empathy than people in intractable pain.
@@ariajade7852 OMG same here in the US. If I have to hear about how they should have safe injection sites one more time while people like us are told to just crawl off some where and die I swear I will pop a vein. They are bending ass over backwards here to cater to the poor dears.
Jade'sReproach Hollket. Yup I’m in Ontario and it is unbelievable how they are treated! On one side of the street there’s a dispensary and across the road is a methadone clinic!! And also the medical majiuana (spelt incorrectly) that’s the new thing ! Smh
Please join Robert D Rose jr war vets class action suit called operation starburst..
Please join share n file to fight this abuse on pain patients
Oxytocin!!! That’s it! I know it!
What about Men in pain with the same issues? What is the difference? We are all part of the human race!
Your comment seems to say that you didn't really listen or understand this.
I go to Italy and Colombia for my pain medicine. They don’t have an attitude towards opioids. Vietnam Veteran thrown off VA pain mngmnt. VA no longer treats intractable pain nor phantom pain. They offer ketamine. So do gay night clubs. Not my first choice!
What the DEA did with the Gestapo tactics to this man is a travesty. One of my friends committed suicide because dr. Tenant could not write her her pain medicine anymore and it was more than she could stand.
My deepest sympathies for your friend… I understand all too well. For I too was one of his patients that he had to stop treating in 2016. I too, could not find another dr to manage my pain, went thru withdrawals, finally saw my prior neurologist who wrote me about 25% of the pain meds Dr. T had rx, up until a couple months ago, when the practice she is in insisted I become one of their “pain patients” and have told me that it will be gradual but since I am on “way too much pain meds” and “it is dangerous” I will be gradually tapered down as a courtesy to my neuro dr, they are not doing this immediately, “just gradually”. The DEA cost me a functioning life, my marriage of over 30 years, and I’m treated like criminal by my own drs at this point. My sister lives in CA, I live in the Midwest. She has cancer and so far I am unable to get out to see her, to be with her, bc I can not coordinate my meds and my care… have to see this new pain mgt dr every 2 months to be drug tested of course.I have never done a single illegal thing about these meds, followed every law, every rule, taken every insult and every abuse, and for what? STILL can not even be with my little sister when she could be dying? Everyone and anyone should be really afraid, because this could happen to YOU… to any law abiding US citizen, you are one genetic fault or car accident away from living MY life, and you should be very, very afraid over what our government did and is doing today.
If one is a woman...you’re in pain.