Finding The Right Pain Specialist

From: Helen Dynda (olddad66@runestone.net)
Thu Mar 13 21:00:29 2003


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Many primary care doctors are either unwilling or unable to adequately manage patients with serious pain. Here are the recommended steps to ensure that your pain is brought under control: 1. Talk to your primary care doctor about your pain. Give him or her a diary of how you suffer, when the pain is worse - and what makes it worse. Provide objective numbers: 0 is pain-free, and 10 is the worst pain.

2. Make sure your doctor knows exactly where you hurt. The pain may be associated with another serious disease.

3. If, despite your efforts, your primary care doctor can't get your pain under control, ask for a referral to a pain specialist who is board certified by the American Academy of Pain Medicine or by the American Board of Anesthesiology -- with a subspecialty in chronic-pain management.


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