Once you stop looking for a diagnosis and embrace management, I am not one for putting on a brave face and fighting to keep life the way it was before pain hit. You can have more control over your life, arranging it to encompass your limits, once you start building your own management plan...and I caution against letting a doctor do it for you, or try to push you to do more than you absolutely WANT to do.
What are a professional's thoughts on someone in pain with zero quality of life? Is there any advice that I may not have heard that may ease my mind? I have had chronic nerve pain for over 5 years. It affects a very sensitive area of my body which seems to make the pain worse. The pain is vice-like, although I do have shooting pains when I "exercise". The pain seems to make me feel queasy, but I have digestive issues so this may be in my mind.
I am 23 years old.
I don't know what others experience but during an A Fib event, my quality of life deteriorates completely. I did read that large doses of Vitamin D can cause arrhythmia so I stopped taking Vitamin D and the events have decreased dramatically in frequency from about 2/week to 1/month and intensity and duration.
I was diagnosed with A Fib about 1 year ago but have been having what I thought was tachycardia for years but maybe only 2 times/year.
17 yrs of living with and trying to be a productive person in society, after aortic valve replacement, my quality of life is such that I can no longer consider myself employable. With attendance issues being the foremost reason for this conclusion, Is it too far out of the question for me to be eligible for disability. I have applied in the past, and have always been denied.
Right now I only say somewhat b/c even though my legs have improved...I still have a lot of pain, some headaches and many symptoms are still there from before. I am awaiting my 6 month MRI to see how successful the surgery has been. So...my answer may change down the road as things continue to heal and improve.
One things is for sure I am still 100% positive that I needed to have the surgery done..the main thing is prevention of any more progression!!
Was watching one of those sort of horridly-fascinating shows last night on TV that is about hoarders, except this one is about pet hoarders. They visited a couple's house who had 24 cats. The vet who was talking to the couple and she went into the room where the catboxes were, and commented on the smell, and she had handheld meter that she set down on the floor. It measured ammonia in the air.
For me, I have made mistakes with my dogs over the years, and one in particular I kept alive for too long - bless her, she was almost 20yrs old, completely blind, completely deaf, and had bad arthritis too ... her quality of life was very poor, but it still took me a year to decide to put her out of what misery she was in. I feel it was entirely selfish on my part, but it was such a hard thing to do.
Only her doctor can give you an idea of what her life expectancy is. For me, I think it's about quality of life. I don't know if I'd put her through radiation at her age. This is a very personal thing, but I feel very strongly about this. I've known many much younger people who endured all the chemo and radiation for cancer, only to still die from the cancer. So what life they had left was spent being miserably sick. It's a big decision for you. Take care....
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
June 8, 2010 4:44 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- About 21 percent of children in the United States will be living below the poverty line in 2010, the highest rate in 20 years, according to a new analysis of children's well-being released Tuesday.
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