What “Let us manage your pain” actually means
Hello
This week I want to talk to you all about what pain management is, and why it could not be the right thing for you.
When you go to your doctor complaining of pain, your doctor will tend to give you pain pills to lessen your pain, in hopes over the next few weeks, the cause of the pain will heal, and your pain will be gone.
When it doesn’t go away but just seems to keep coming back, worse than it was before, The Doctor may suggest managing the pain.
Let’s talk about managing the pain for a second. Management is to prescribe medicines for a chronic condition, so prevent, as much as is possible, severe complications arising in the future.
An awesome example of how effective this strategy can be is the management of high blood pressure and cholesterol.
Managing blood pressure and the bad type of cholesterol is the best way we know to decrease the chances of a person having a heart attack or stroke.
But when it comes to pain, is it the right method?
No.
The simple reason is that the cause of the pain cannot be fixed with painkillers. Or anti-inflammatories. It just allows the problem to worsen unabated.
Managing Pain is like putting food that is beginning to rot, in a plastic bag, then putting it in the fridge. it might slow down how fast it rots but will do nothing to stop it. At least putting it in a bag will help it to smell less.
By the time you want to get rid of the food in the fridge, it has grown legs, had babies and everything else in the fridge is a new type of life.
At that point, it might be less hassle to just buy a new fridge. The problem is with pain; you cannot just go to a shop and buy a replacement body.
Do you want to keep waiting and try to slow down how fast it gets shit?
OR do you want to resolve this?
Jason
