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Quite a few health conditions you've got there, spectre. How did you get the throat strictures and nerve damage?
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Both were side effects to the cancer treatments, as is the chronic pain and most of the things listed.
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Why did you decide to have the cholecystectomy?
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I didn't have a choice. I was in severe pain and the docs basically told me it had to come out, and at that point, I wasn't going to argue.
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I do realize that we all have our own struggles, but I feel like my problems are trivialized. It is frustrating. I can't even get proper pain management.
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I know it can get frustrating, especially with the pain management, but a lot of times, doctors, especially the younger ones, are going off of textbook definitions of how everything works and should work, so when things are different, they don't always understand it. At this point, I've tried almost every pain killer out there, and I just adapt to them very quickly, so they lose their effectiveness too easily. After a while, it wasn't worth it, so at this point, I don't bother with them any more. With pain, I've always found it best to find something to completely lose yourself in. For me, it's loud, heavy music. That's always worked very well for me. Good luck and keep fighting.