Physio Hell

Last medical post before Christmas break I promise, and wish it could have been cheerful. But it isn't and to be honest I can't see this path being either a happy or successful one.

Like I said before there is little trust between me and my new physiotherapist and to put it bluntly we are going to clash. He has this mental attitude that CRPS doesn't exist and any pain can be over come by working through it. Now I have had a physio treat me all my adult life and pre CRPS, that lecture may have held some truth. However life with CRPS has no such clear cut lines. A movement that is possible now may cause immense pain 5 minutes later.

It is like trying to operate a laptop after a mug of tea has gone over it. Somethings may work, then they don't. Worse still nothing is ever the same day to day except the constant pain we live with. For some one to write off CRPS as in your mind and not a real illness to experience the reality of our lives. I am lucky I only have stage 1, thanks to people recognising the symptoms and my then physio also being well read on it. But it isn't in our heads. The pain we feel is certainly real, like for me on Sunday, just sitting on a chair reduced me to tears for no reason, other than my pain sensors have gone nuts.

So now I am faced with dealing with a man, who thinks it is in my head, and he is going to push me dragging and screaming through the pain and be "normal" again. He won't listen when I say something hurts in a sharp nasty way, rather than a achey not used to way. At one point there was a really nasty pain going down my spine. His answer "I he to trust him". Well I am sorry I am not going to trust some one just because they tell me to, and certainly not if he doesn't believe that one of my conditions exists.

Any way nothing more will be done till the new year, and I have a chance to speak to my GP again, so I am not letting some one who is ignorant in his own profession get under my skin. Although he may find I take him some light reading next time.