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Jejunostomy tube pain
3 years ago
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My Illness and Pain Condition
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Piriformis syndrome

Hi KS - you may have already looked at this option (though couldn't see it mentioned in your post) - but before looking at surgical options it would b...

7 years ago
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My Illness and Pain Condition
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Superannuation Total and Permanent disability

wow! Just getting my medical documents together to submit with the paperwork for the TPD claim, holy cow - I have a ream of paper in reports over the ...

7 years ago
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Superannuation Total and Permanent disability

Hi Pam - For the first, I'm not sure as my application was successful first time round. Similar to Johnno's experience, I had a single point of co...

7 years ago
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Ketamine infusion for chronic pain. Does it help?

Hi Robyn, My experiences overall are not a good guide to ketamine (I'm very sensitive and react rather abnormally) - but yes, it's quite likely tha...

8 years ago
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Pain Management with Pharmaceutical Medication.
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Superannuation Total and Permanent disability

Good luck Punk, I started the process late last year, and just had a decision made (in my favour) a few weeks a go. Bear in mind that the figures they...

8 years ago
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Ketamine infusion

Asiana - am sorry that you had muscle spasm as a side effect - but is also interesting as I've never come across anyone else to encounter it. I have d...

8 years ago
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Pain Clinics
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Ketamine infusion

Yep Don...I was on the same for a long time too... Only the formulation change with Oxycontin that caused issues for me - I've never had any real issu...

8 years ago
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Pain Clinics
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Ketamine infusion

Eliza, I'm so sorry it didn't help you. It's so hard when you work yourself up to something and it all comes crashing down - even when you tell yourse...

8 years ago
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Ketamine infusion

Think we need pugmum to come back and clarify - but my reading of what she wrote was that she has no out of pocket costs other than her excess - but t...

8 years ago
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Working with Chronc Pain

Hi Brendan. I don't work - I'm a qualified vet but between pain, muscle issues, mobility issues and the rubbish concentration that comes with pain,...

9 years ago
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Ketamine infusion

A wee bit of relief from one of them, but for me has been more bad than good. I'm a sensitive wee soul when it comes to medication side effects and co...

9 years ago
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Pain Clinics
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Ketamine infusion

I think every doctor has a slightly different protocol Mrs Shingles - e.g. some keep their patients in HDU, some in a general ward, length of time see...

9 years ago
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Ketamine infusion

Oh Yep...save us from the carpark "enforcers" ... I don't have that problem any longer as I'm reliant on a wheelchair out of the house - but my Mum ha...

9 years ago
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Ketamine infusion

Hi George...sorry to hear that you also have had a rotten time with ketamine. I've tried a few times (at very low doses ...I get to a max of 10mg/5ml ...

9 years ago
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