Chronic Pain is pain that lasts longer than one would expect in the time it takes to heal naturally. Most of the time, pain continues because the proper treatment has not been found for a particular injury or disease. A lot of the time, we as patients have not been successful in communicating the level of our chronic pain, what is causing it and providing our doctors with enough information that they can help us. It is hard to reach understanding when you go into a doctors appointment and you have only 5 or 10 minutes with the doctor to give them a complete story of the causes, history and amount of pain. Most doctors take the easy way and provide Pain medicine, then see you in a month and give you more pain medicine. The problem with this approach is these medicines only mask the symptons and do not treat the cause of the pain. As I have learned through my own experience, these pain medications in fact, affect your brain and trick it that you need more and more and actually increase your subjective pain level.
It is important with chronic pain that you get to the root of the problem and be treated for all the problems you have and get off the pain medications that are creating more problems and increasing your pain level. Over the years I was on pain medications (opiates), my pain level kept increasing and the regular doctors and myself thought I just needed more and more medicine. I finally couldn’t stand it anymore and fortunately have a wife who wanted to help. When I was finally hitting bottom, my wife found Bay Recovery and I have been improving ever since. The first thing they do at Bay Recovery is listen. They go to the root of the problem and develop for each patient a special program to treat for Pain, addiction of all types, opiates, alcohol and other problems.
Because Dr. Rand and the staff are willing and capable of getting to the cause of your problem, they are able to take the time necessary to help each individual. This sometimes means waiting for a while to see the doctor or staff and believe it or not, it is ok because they are spending the time helping someone and when it is your turn, they spend whatever time is necessary to insure your wellbeing.
I invite anyone who has addiction problems, any family member or friend who knows of someone with a problem or anyone who wants to know more about a different type of treatment to contact Bay Recovery.
I am still a patient at Bay Recovery who has been helped and is getting their life back and am willing to help others with information. Contact Bay Recovery for full information, or e-mail me and I can tell the experience of going through the program.
johnhenely@hotmail.com
