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As soon as she mentioned opioids, I knew where this interview was going. Just because she was/is able to do it, not everyone can. I have done everything possible, even avoiding meds, but that wasn't a life. I can't wish or think away the pain..I've tried. We push ourselves every day. My medication is a very low dose and it barely makes me able to do chores. Sounds like a very "anti opioid" story to me.

I live with pain everyday that is so intense that I hate being around anyone...people just can't comprehend that your can be that bad. If only for a day you could be in my body ! I'm in pain, I don't need my head fixed and that's what Dr.s are doing. Prescribing drugs that mess with your head so bad that you can't even function properly...I don't want my head feeling like it's on a tilt o whirl but that's what these Dr.s are doing now for big pharma and lining their pockets. Not everyone gets addicted to drugs...there truly are people that NEED PAIN MEDICATION. Time Dr.s listen to the patient..I think it's time for me to write my book on CHRONIC PAIN from the patients point of view and not the Dr.s opinion

Not everyone's pain levels are the same! Not everyone's tolerance to pain is the same! Not everyone's response to treatments and or pain medications are the same! Chronic pain is serious and can only be treated on a case by case basis! There are no guides or trends to go by! Every individual suffering with chronic pain needs a custom tailored pain management plan suited just for that individual! There's way to many variables when treatment chronic pain!

I'm a 35 year old USMC machinegunner vet, and honestly, I've gone through absolute hell over the past 15 years. I can't even begin to describe. All I can say is it's CRIMINAL the way people are treated for daring to ask for help with their suffering. I have come close to suicide SO many times, just to make it stop. I can't do that, as I have a wife and daughter. I'm happy for those who can find a way through constant suffering; but it very much is a different hell for everyone.

Beautiful interview. For people living with chronic pain, what helps the most is finding that we are not alone, that there are others committed to living a fulfilling life in spite of the everpresent condition. Thank you for this.

I'm 51, commercial fisherman, had back surgery, chronic pain and my doctor just said she stopped writing scrips for chronic pain patients, so now I just have to deal with insane pain. I still workout daily, yoga, swim, and workout with the boxing club, some times will power and grit aren't enough now I'm stuck with nothing. I can see how people go to the streets for pain relief. A shame doctors think junkies are a higher priority so you can't have legit pain meds because some worthless junkie might get them

Thank you for sharing your story. Keep enjoying life ☺️ I live with chronic pain too for a decade now from terrible auto accident. The cold gets me 🥶 I'm retired too at 38. I use to do nursing, social work. Now I am a realestate investor work alone. I come to accept it's okay not having people in my life. Pain sucks. I found having discipline with healthy lifestyle, eliminating stress, and finding peace and joy thru god and Love letting go of stressors that can't be fixed. I was left with CRPS TYPE 2 mixed with other chronic nerve issues because I fractured my pelvis.. CRPS is a blind disease to the medical community. Many years ago I came to a self discovery too. I suffered terrible pain from letting pain doctors experiment with injections and a failed spinal cord stimulator after years of surgies and rehabilitation. I'm lucky 🤞 I have alot of pain that my body understands I just nolonger physically feel it because of the cannabis effectiveness to numb pain. 7 years ago I choose to start taking cannibis after moving to Hawaii. I was living in Atlanta Ga and the doctor sucked. I had to fire them. I wanted to stick to natural medicines after being treated like a druggie. I never took pain medicine until the doctors spread my disease all over my body. . I have a home in Michigan so cannabis is completely legal here. I buy my medicine at the dispensary. Cheaper than prescription these days. I started off taking 5mg thc gummies. Then went up dosage over the years. I eat gummies throughout the day. I have been on the cannibis for so long now I don't get to much of the high effects. Very thankful I am on it. Definitely helps. I take almost a 100mg a day now. Sometimes more on a bad day. Thru out the day I eat them. I live a pretty active life with this medicine. I can bike 10 miles, I can still hike a 7 mile trail. For me it lets my body have a break. My body would be on fire otherwise. Numbs the body basically pretty good. It's called body high. I hate to see people suffer so I like to recommend as a option to treat chronic conditions.

"stop trying to be who you were and find out who you are now" . I think 🤔 this is a very interesting statement from this lady. It's encouraging and positive. Thanks Andrea for posting this interview with this very inspiring lady.

Thanks so much for this interview. It gives me so hope again, cause I’m in that rock bottom place.❤

I suffer from Lupus, Rhuematoid Arthritis in my hands, knees, 1 foot, both knees & 1 hip. I also have Spondylitis in my back as well as herniated disk (3 of them) and Sciatica. I am in some level of pain EVERY single day! I am CONSTANTLY in physical therapy, under pain management. Cortisone shots, spinal taps u name it. Pain meds make me nauseated & make me itch. I have battled all of this 2001. I don't know what the answer is but I do know pain should be treated on a case by case basis. Some days I am more functional than others but it affects your moods, your outlook and temperament. Many do not get it's hard to commit to future activities cause I can only do what my pain level allows on that day. It's funny I am SO used to being in pain I barely ever say anything but others who know me tell they can tell by my movements or facial expressions that I am in pain. I don't complain alot I am just used to it but I would welcome relief for sure!

I could have eaten pain killers like candy with my constant pain from herniated disks and scoliosis but because pain meds caused migraines, I was saved from becoming an addict. So, I suffer through the pain for decades by moving as much as possible and keeping myself busy. I would love to be pain free but not gonna happen with my body and will not have the recommended surgeries.

THANKS MY LOVED DR. ANDREA FURLAN I SAY YOU HI FROM UK

Very good testimony! I can identify so much to this nice lady. Been through the same. She sure is a great source of encouragement to all of us. God bless her, and thank you for doing this beautiful interview.

Just what I wanted to hear today. Wish I could give more thumbs up than just one. Thank you for sharing your story

Thanks for doing this interview. I still want to interview *YOU* Dr. Furlan.

Gratefully, I am under the care of a pain management provider who understands that writing for opiates (only one) to help keep the pain from CRPS, central pain syndrome along with hyperalgesia and allodynia at a tolerable level. He understands that the vast majority of the pain I have is mediated by my brain and spinal cord. Of course I'm even more grateful that pain management has accepted and granted permission to my neurologist to have me on a benzo for Adult Onset Tourettes which is actually a form of Tourettes caused by a faulty rewiring of the brain when under stress of under treated pain of which is a similar way of how central pain syndrome develops in response to under treated pain. I just wish that all doctors would understand that irreversible changes to the brain that leads to a poorer quality of life when pain is under treated. However, the government certainly doesn't care so why would they allow doctors to write for the needed amount of medications to adequately treat the patients pain?

This is a beautiful story and the setting is absolutely stunning. Excellent work - this video will help to encourage so many people.

Congratulations to you Leslie singer , glad you are positive and very open to share with Dr, friends , keep it up ,stay happy and be cheerful alwaya❤️

obrigada! excelente entrevista!

I Was never one for meds of any kind ,was in a bad wreck years ago,now I'm a senior I have chronic back ,hip and both knees,...pain every waking hour for over 6 years.i refused opiods never wanted a habit like that,But I can sure tell you this Pain can literally kill a person especially every day.you teach yourself to go on with it,if not sucide is always a thought.Pain will make you pull away from everybody and everything you love.There is NO reason I believe anything but God can make any difference on life getting easier.

Thank you dr.Andrea

I have been dealing with chronic pain for 15 years now and I still have it. I am not on any opiods meds at all as they make me deathly ill.

Great interview. 😊nice to hear another person’s truth on topics we often don’t speak on

I would appreciate a summary of what she did to overcome the fear of pain, and what if you don’t have any help is it possible to do on your own? And what is the name of the chronic pain society? Thanks

Boy I'm sure glad I ran into this channel. When I'm not so tired perhaps I'll be able to ask some questions to the doctor. First ran into your channel listening about Gabapentin. I will probably go over to that video again as I have some questions on it. I was just adjusted up to 1200 mg per day. I was sitting on the edge of my bed getting ready to get up and before I knew it I got slammed into the corner of my nightstand. Don't know what really happened I think I fell asleep. Anyways I got a nice bump on my head and bruises on my knee.

10 years is nothing I’ve been living 45 years chronic pain and it keeps getting worse

Thank you for such interview encouragement voice.

Thank you Doc. God bless .

Haha wish it was that easy just go talk to someone and everything magically Changes

Great interview.👍🙏🌹

To reduce inflammation pain all over the body, will Sallaki tabulets help?

I am thinking (from experience) they do not know what "chronic" means. If you are able to stop pain meds, and live your life, then you probably should not have been given the pain meds in the first place. She is more "living without meds" because her pain has either changed or was never supposed to be treated with pain meds in the first place. I am severely disabled due to pain, and I only take 2 pain meds. I would need more history.. but this sounds like some kind of advertisement.

Hold did Leslie get off her pain medication? Does she take anything else instead? Good to see how well she's doing now and helping others in her position.

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Molto interessante 👍🙋🏼🤗💗

nice

My dear Dr'furlan. You are the best doctor. l love my sister. May god bless.❤🙏

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Mam would you consider prescribing Curcumin capsule to manage chronic pain to your patients? Please let me know mam

I've been suffering from RA pains for 16 years. Some side effects of it in last few years have created additional unbearable pains of perennial nature.Living seems to be a curse at the age of 83.

Hello, Dr Andrea Furlan. I would like not only to thank you for your videos, but also to dare to ask you something personal - do you have a Romanian origin? Thank you!

You have no option when you have chronic pain you have to learn to live with it .

Hi Dr. Furlan, It would help if you let the person being interviewed talked and just listen. Every time she was about to give us more of her story about specific issues you would cut her off. I appreciate your content but it would help your audience tremendously if you let the person talk and not sound fake when you are agreeing. Sorry for any negative criticism it's just that i was really into hearing her talked and it got awkward to watch due to the interruptions.

I am sorry pain meds made pain worse for this patient, but this story of opioid hyperalgesia is a myth, and I imagine she is popular at this conference because she can share her story which, btw, is not the norm. Most pain patients get relief from their meds and suffer horribly without their pain meds, I lost a friend named Danny and his beautiful wife Gretchen last November because his doctor was raided for the DEA for no and he was left in torture unable to find a doctor to help him due to the excruciatingly painful nature of his brain injury. I will not stop talking about Danny until this war on pain patients in the US and Canada ends. We are losing pain patients because they can no longer get prescriptions for their life saving pain medications and I’m sorry but this woman’s story is the exact opposite of what is happening to pain patients these days; I can think of so many that would love the privilege of having their pain meds again and are barely surviving without them. I was force tapered two years ago for no reason, except for our government waged a war again pain patients in the US and my pain doctor was in its cross hairs so he started force tapering his patients. I was fortunate and was able to get pain meds again, but so many are not so lucky. My story is the opposite of this woman’s and I had to accept that opioid pain meds were the only way I could would have quality of life again. I can’t use my hands or arms without excruciating nerve pain; think of how often you use your hands then you get an idea of how much pain I was enduring. I tried everything to avoid taking pain meds including traveling to California for a risky and excruciatingly painful surgery in 2018 that did not help my nerve compression. I also tried many types of physical therapies, prescription meds, injections, alternative therapies including chiropractic and acupuncture…nothing helped, in fact, physical therapy and chiropractic care made things worse for my pain. The minute I got a prescription for pain meds in 2018, was when I realized our government has stigmatized pain patients as drug addicts and my life is difficult in another way, but at least I have quality of life. It is a myth that doctors are handing out pain meds “like candy,” it’s very much the opposite these days; prescribing is the lowest in the US since 1993 and deaths from illicit fentanyl are the highest in history, that should tell us we need to do a course correction and start treating pain compassionately again.

To me it Didn't sound like she had over come her pain. Just her misuse of drugs that was a added pain. Chronic pain has got a end. You can live with it or treat it. Mind can go over it at times and not others.

Everyone is different. She doesn’t look like chronic pain. If she had chronic pain she wouldn’t be able to sit that long without sweating and moving around. You should interview a real chronic person.

This woman have a chronic pain.

Wish she was a paraplegic with chronic pain. 12 years chronic pain paraplegic neuropathy and I'm only 32. Only take gabapentin which really does nothing. My Docs only want to give me fentanyl, which only knocks me out, pain is still horrible once I wake up. I'm trying to find a better way to live life with the pain.

Try making your own pain killers with wild lettuce also this is only good for this woman, everyone is different to compare her pain with others is not only ignorant the doctor should lose her license for even suggesting it, the doctors could also do other test that they are told by the FDA not to offer that could tell a person that they could fix their problems easily, so they expect others to sit in pain and want us to find other ways to deal with , look at the fentanyl problem not one person is doing anything about it , if she was on 3 opioids and Ritalin then her doctors should be sued and put in jail, so let's stop opioids but leave the cartel alone this video is a joke.

Wow its great to talk with Leslie singer a patient overcome from her 10 years chronic pain journey .yes comeover from opiods addiction is a great thing from chronic pain..and bio psychosocial approach plays a key role like dr psychologist to educate speak about the pain and it fantastically reduce anxiety fear then physical activity by mind body way appropriate trained physiotherapist . Fantastic to see this patient a role model of other sufferers ..will give answer how we lead future life and avoidance behaviour ( biographical suspension) for example avoiding to do gardening , house hold activity and participation with social gatherings .so need team work .really i wounder how Leslie come out from her headaches facial pain ( trigeminal neuralgia) postoperative low back pain and sciatica ..its amazing interview dr andrea doing fantastic job .haatsoff and salute to your passion . My humble request please see my RU-vid channel spoken about biographical suspension ..