Posted by Susan D (208.199.4.65) on July 30, 1999 at 11:22:28:
First of all, I did go to the doctor yesterday and he gave me a referral to a neuro and in the meantime gave me some Imitrex. He would only give me the spray and said he preferred to have the neuro prescribe me the shots. So, I have to wait 10 days until my appointment and hope he will give something/anything to help out. But, that's not what I'm complaining about.
After my appointment yesterday I talked to my husband and told him what happened. He of course repeated the whole thing to his mother. Well she just called me and started giving me a lecture about there is no way shots can work faster than a spray because the spray gets right in there. I told her that I had found a board (this one) where other people have lived with this for years and this is what they have told me and because you have all been through it, I believe you. My mother-in-law works in a lab but she seems to think she has a medical degree. Well, after I said that, she started going off telling me that 1) You don't know how high their pain tolerance is, 2) This is their personal experience and may be completely unlike yours, 3) You don't know their symptoms, 4) For all you know they may be a bunch of psychos (her words not mine). I got pissed and told her that I trusted the information I got here because 1) NO ONE can make up the pain of a CH 2) From what I've read, we basically all have the same symptoms and 3) You are all speaking from experience which my doctors DO NOT have! Still she kept on telling me that no one here has their medical degree, blah, blah, blah, blah. I ended the conversation by telling her Yes, some people on the board do have their medical degree and by the way, she didn't have hers either nor did she know what kind of pain I was talking about! After that I promptly hung up the phone. Just what I need is to be in a cycle and have to deal with that crazy bitch too.
Sorry this got so long. I just had to tell someone who would understand.