Dealing with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - 971 Words

I hurt†¦Over the many year’s now of dealing with the disease commonly referred to today as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), this simple yet weighted term of â€Å"I hurt† has become imprinted upon my brain. This term has also become synonymous in describing how I feel to every physician, family member, and friend, when describing the chief symptom with CRPS. What is also troubling, is all the additional places I hurt now since being diagnosed with this disease. The paragraph above is intentionally wrote in the first person, however, it never states whom the â€Å"I† or character is and at any other time would be slanted for poor grammar. Here being the â€Å"I† in the first paragraph, in this case, can stand for anyone diagnosed with CRPS, as well as, the undiagnosed. People in the undiagnosed category is where a lot of misery abides, they are telling everyone they hurt yet get no relief. This is a sad category because a lot of it lies in the f ace of false hood. Doctors and family do not believe you. You might have no other symptom than pain, and then, you get slapped with drug seeking behavior. I shutter and cringe as to how many undiagnosed cases of CRPS take place every year just in the United States. There is also a middle category to this conundrum, whereby, your given the title of CRPS, however, your not fully diagnosed per se or the diagnosis of CRPS is not recognized, understood, or believed to be the case by other physicians. This nice little slice of heaven is whereShow MoreRelatedWhy I Didn t Know About The Most Difficult Time Of Their Life1634 Words   |  7 Pagesspent 27 days in the hospital afterward, drugged to the point where I could barely speak let alone remember any of it now. What I do remember is that I spent most of that time crying and screaming in pain. No one could figure out what the problem was. They pumped me full of various narcotics, any pain medicine and sedative they could. None of it wor ked. 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