Doctor Describes Pain of CRPS | Kowalski v Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital 

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My wife has CRPS. She is now 33 years into the disease. The only therapy that has worked is Ketamine infusion. Ketamine has been the state of the art treatment for the past 10 years. Hopkins should have known this. I am a physician. If I wasn't, my wife never would have gotten the care she needed.

*This brought actual tears to my eyes!!* YES YES YES!! Five yrs ago I fell, breaking my heel in 6 places. While the surgeon said it healed perfectly, the pain wouldn’t go away. He didn’t believe me. It was because I was "babying the injury"… it’s "all in my head". Kept saying to take Tylenol, walk more, etc. NO! Water hurts it! Air hurts it! Don’t touch it! It burns! It’s freezing! - Take an extra Tylenol. He finally got tired of me because the x-rays showed it was "fine" & there was nothing else that could be done… it was an "imaginary pain" - so to basically placate (& get rid of) me, he sent me to a Pain Management doc… who THANKFULLY was aware of CRPS. He sent me to have bone scans & various (horribly painful) nerve testing done and I was finally diagnosed by someone who took the time to listen & BELIEVED ME!! I had never heard of CRPS but now I know about it all to well. I’m still in a wheelchair as I can’t use my left foot/leg *BUT* ….. my socks last longer (can only wear 1 on my right foot), I don’t have to shave my left leg (barely grows any hair), get to park closer to store entrances & most of all, *I HAVE A DOCTOR WHO BELIEVES ME!!!* I am a CRPS WARRIOR! 🧡🔥🧡 Our color is orange & our symbol is the flame~

Shame on John's Hopkins and med staff!!!

This guy won the case for Maya!!!! Thank you to this doctor!!!

This doctor sounds so empathetic and understanding of his patients' pain.. It must be difficult for him as well at times, watching people in such horrific distress and often not being able to help them.

This pain management doctor is awesome 👍 we should all be lucky enough to have a doctor like him👍

My adult daughter fell down the stairs in the backyard and hurt her ankle. She developed CRPS. It is NO JOKE! The pain is excruciating.

Looks like they hired the best of the best of pediatric chronic pain specialists. This family should get millions. Nothing will bring back what they lost, but the hospital should pay for all the harm they caused. I have studied and treated CRPS for many years and this case is beyond a travesty. Justice for Maya and her family

I have watched several of Dr. Pradeep Chopra's talks and lectures on RU-vid. Glad to see he was a treating doctor for this young patient. He is highly knowledgable with CRPS, Ehler-Danlos, Connective Tissue Disorders, POTS, Mast Cell Activation, Dysautonomia, LDN for pain, Pain Management, Pediatric Pain, and more. He contributes his time and knowledge with patient organizations, also. He is humble, and is a role model for compassionate cate, diagnosis investigation, continual education, and sharing information/educating.

I was diagnosed with CRPS. The State of Washington did a great disservice to me and fought the diagnosis. Injured 2007 and still suffering. Nobody fakes a disease this long.

Excellent explanation by Dr. Chopra. He is a world-renowned & well-respected thought leader in CRPS. The diagnostic criteria he is referring to is called the Budapest Criteria (Harden, 2004). I had almost all of the signs/symptoms/criteria when I was Dx'd with CRPS/RSD in 2014 after a distal fibula fracture & surgery. Burning pain, freezing pain 2 yrs later w/ distinct temperature difference, swelling, discoloration, mottled skin, lesions, muscle spasms, and sweating (limb covered in sweat even when rest of body is normal) 😢affected my entire lower left leg, foot and ankle. I can't imagine what Maya went through having full body CRPS and being taken away from her parents as a young child. This poor girl! 💔😢❤

Literally all I could think about everytime this doctor explained something, is how abusive and neglectful this hospital was to Maya! They literally physically TORTURED her because they didn't like her diagnosis, and then mentally and emotionally abused her and her family because her mum was DESPERATE to help her! And then if all of that isn't HORRIFIC enough, they then caused further damage and despair by seperating Maya and her family, which resulted in the her mother killing herself! have CPTSD (severe emotional trauma as a result of abuse and neglect), and I can't even BEGIN to fathom the pain and suffering Maya and her family has gone through!!! My soul HURTS just listening to these small snippets of their experiences! And then I think about the physical pain Maya was in when all of this was happening, and I literally can't comprehend how HORRIFIC this was at all (because I have been fortunate enough to live a relatively physical-pain free life)! All I know is, is even if the court rules in Maya and her family's favour (and they get the best options in terms of compensation possible), justice will not have been served, and will never be able to truly be served! NOTHING will bring their mum back, and nothing will take away the NEEDLESS torture-filled suffering that Maya and her family experienced at the hands of this hospital and it's employees!

When this case is over and Mayer and her family have won. Those so called Doctors and social workers should be arrested and charged with abuse. Tried and put in prison.

This is a lovely man who is clearly devoted to his patients. I have CRPS. Luckily I have a wonderful pain management Dr. And team that helps me lead a somewhat normal life. But I can tell that this man is the real deal as well. Thank goodness for doctors like this.

Thank you doctor for explaining the pain. Nothing totally alleviates the pain. One is reminded daily that they have CRPS. At its worse the fetal position is the norm. My initial diagnosis was made by a Army surgeon who saw injuries from war.

I had RSD/CRPS… it’s so unbelievably painful!! Narcotics don’t touch it, something I had to learn. Begging for HELP, medics paint you as a drug seeker. It is unbelievable, unimaginable pain!! I still cry when I describe it!!

I have CRPS. It started after a knee injury and surgery. That was over 20 years ago. I see a specialist now, who is through the UCLA Medical network. He has a CRPS clinic in LA. But for years before I found him I was treated like a whiny baby and hypochondriac. I actually knew was this disorder was because of what I do for a living. I knew people didn’t think it was real. But that still didn’t prepare me for how horrible I was treated. Like this doctor said, you can see many of the symptoms. My leg was swollen, it would turn dark blue and purple, almost to black. All the hair fell out. And my leg and foot were shiny and cold. But I was exaggerating. The pain isn’t just a high level, the type of pain is indescribable. The best way I found to describe my pain is deep frostbite. It’s cold and hot pain at the same time. It spread from my leg to the other, my groin, bladder, internal organs, my back, and then my arms. My left is worse than my right and I have vision problems and migraines also. I no longer take opiates because my pain tolerance level is so crazy high after 20 years that I have no real idea how bad it really is. I have been suicidal twice, which is low for people like me. Our support groups announce deaths literally each week. We spend our days simply trying to keep our heads above water. I have such admiration for children who have this, as it forever changes your life. I have tried ketamine infusions by IV and it was miraculous. But the insurance has denied me any further. Because ketamine is dangerous and nobody thinks CRPS is as crushing as it is. I am so tired of people telling me I should be glad I’m not terminal with cancer. I laugh and tell them at least they allow cancer patients to have suitable pain management. They don’t give us that and that’s why we are dying.

This Dr is fantastic! I found one fantastic Dr, my cardiologist. He saved my life. Multiple ER and hospital stays said I was just having anxiety. I followed up with a cardiologist under the long COVID clinic. He looked at all my stuff and said something isn't right here. He ordered a cardiac function MRI and told me I am not crazy and don't ever say that again. That MRI showed that I had 2 congenital heart defects that if I didn't have open heart surgery quickly I would have complete heart failure within 6 months. He saved my life after multiple hospitals dismissed me as having bad anxiety. Now I am having neuro complications from the surgery. My neurologist is no good and I cry all the time. Trying to find a new neuro but they are all scheduled out until March/April. The medical field is a disaster but there are bright spots. My Cardiologist is a hero and what Dr's should be.

CRPS is no joke. I got it in 2016 after a botched surgery and it’s the absolute most painful 8 years of my life. I had to get bi-lateral spinal lumbar synthetic injections every week. It tore my family apart. My husband and I just got divorced as he was tired of waiting for me to get healthy. I have weekly and injections it saves my feet from being amputated. At the worst I have 50 open lesions, massive bruises all over my body for NO reason. Quite frankly the ER kept asking me if I’m being abused by my husband. I’m sad I lost my soulmate, my 27 years career, I’ve lost everything! I’m so happy she finally got Justice! Please listen to anyone having pain and complaining. It’s sucks! Pregabalin doesn’t work BTW! At this point just sedate me it’s so painful. Thanks for reading! I’m so happy she was patient and WON!

This poor family went through SO MUCH! Praying they win this case! Hospitals need to be held liable for their actions. Just because somebody else tells a doctor to do something doesn't absolve them of responsibility for their actions!

This is to Maya; Honey, your Mother is an Angel. She made the most difficult choice to give you life and the treatment you needed and look at the number of other people she helps in the process! As a human she wasn’t being heard which is horrible.. but now no one can ignore her! Her love is strong and she is STILL with you. I send nothing but love and compassion and hope that you know there are so many others sending you and your family healing and love. ❤

This man is so cool and well informed! Professor/lecturer material right there! He explains so well, he is entertaining, engaging, has a sense of humor all while relaying this difficult information! He explained the condition so well

My son was diagnosed with CRPS 4 years ago at the age of 18 after a work accident it’s destroyed his life, I became his carer. Here in Australia I found it’s not very known here, not may doctors have even heard of it let alone know how to treat it. He could barely walk up stairs, was on a lot of meds, had numerous procedures and operations all to be told, there’s nothing else we can do, just take pain meds for the rest of your life. He became very depressed and overweight, lost most of his friends. He even asked me to cut his foot off at one stage. Now he still can’t wear shoes, walks with a limp and still depressed. As his mum I cry ever day because of how much pain he is in EVERY day.

This doctor was incredible!! I could listen to him all day! 😘😍

What this poor girl went through is horrible. Then to be kept from her family is just rotten mean bullshite. I hope this family get every thing they are sued for. And then some. I wish love and luck little lady.💕

I hope maya gets every last penny from that hospital

STOP shuffling papers please !

Dr. Chopra is such a good doctor. He explained the symptoms and how it affects the patient so well. I have crps and it is like having a monster breathing down your neck. I was lucky to find an md who listens to me but did have to through the mill with others who did not.

One thing that stands out to me IF all the staff at J.H totally and utterly believed the mother was hurting Maya by M .B .P how come J.H was charging the Kowalski family insurance company all the way through this time for her being treated for CRPS???

Cant believes living in this world and never heard of this CRPS if not for Maya's case, now that will forced the doctors to open there eyes more .Justice to Maya ,her late Mum and the rest of her family .God bless you ...

Every doctor I've had thats tried to fight my CRPS diagnosis has been some doctor who thinks they know better than all of medicine. I've literally had a doctor say she didn't believe that the pain described with CRPS was accurate.

A mother who witnessed her child in sever pain and not being able to comfort her child and be with the child - I could only imagine her anguish. For anyone who said that the mother was unstable - how could any mother be stable when she knew her child was in such pain? Maybe Ruby Frank!

I fell, broke both wrists and left forearm in 2021 and this doctor seems to be the only person who understands the pain and what CRPS truly feels like. I need to see him as no one else in the medical field seems to know about how painful and debilitating this is. God bless all of you out there who are suffering from this. I can’t keep going on like this 😢

This Dr. is an amazingly intelligent human, with compassion rarely seen in medicine in the United States anymore. He actually gives me hope for humanity. ☮️🌠🎶✨🌜🎠☯️

Please held accountable everyone involved in hurting the kowalski family and many other families, hospital John Hopkins and this evil twisted “Dr” Sally Smith. All of them belong in prison

I only wish it was true, that adults are taken seriously when presenting with CRPS. It’s been years since my diagnosis, my pain is still not controlled. One day without pain would be wonderful! Mine is bilateral, so you can’t compare one limb to the other for symptoms (temperature,color changes,etc.) Mine was post surgery pain that never went away, instead it increased. I have better days but never pain free.

I pray this doctor brings awareness to this painful disease. Hopefully somebody that is suffering from this can now go to their doctor and figure it out. My heart goes out to everyone that is suffering from this disease.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I wish i could've seen this Dr. He has an awesome way of explaining this diagnosis. At 52 I've still not found a doctor that agrees with the issue. Oh Mr. Please stop with the paper shuffle....😠

I hope like h**l they win this case and that hospital has to pay out of their a**!

This Doctor is such a fine compassionate fellow. Thank god he came onto the case.

Dr Chopra is amazing Angel sent. He is my daughters Dr. Ketamine changed her life and her family

Love this guy's humor

Unbelievably arrogant hospital staff. Malpractice, maltreatment, and abuse.

God bless this man.

This doctor didn’t want to use noone else’s notes he wanted to have his own decision about the patient! Glad he was forth coming and understanding the patient. He was the only truthful witness

Excellent explanation from Dr re: nerves, inflammation etc

I wish there were more doctors like this doctor. A lot of them have already made up their minds before they even examine you. Well done sir, I'm sure your patients value you very much.

After reading the comments it appears that everyone that had CRPS had some type of injury

Thank you Dr. and thank you Maya for bringing attention to their horrid disease. Personally, I could never end it because of those that love me, but if I didn’t have the family I did… 😢 I’m so sorry to his family has had to endure this disease, let alone the loss of mom. I had an amazingly compassionate doctor, hat was until he retired. It’s so hard to find a pain doc, let alone one that is knowledgeable and compassionate!

Thank you for a sensible explanation of the extreme pain of CRPS and drawing everyone’s attention the McGill Pain Chart. My husband has had CRPS for almost 3 decades since a crush injury of a lower limb. He was diagnosed very early on because the consultant had seen it before but despite frequent physiotherapy, Guanethidine blocks and surgical spinal nerve bocks, nothing has diminished his pain, weakness, exhaustion and sense of loss. Before this he was a very hard worker and was actively involved with sports and play activities with our young children. He lost out on all of these activities.

This doctor is amazing 👏 well said it's true any stress what's so ever can cause a massive flare up of this desease and this family have truely suffered , thank you doctor for being honest and straight to the point , truth will always prevail , for mayas family ❤ yous did your wife and mother proud she certainly guided this court case for justice ❤❤❤

I have full body CRPS.. my heart break for maya I can’t imagine losing my mother the way she did 😢

Our son was in the 6th grade when he was pushed off the top of a slide. It took quite awhile for the Drs to diagnose what was wrong. He was diagnosed with Cervical RSD another name for this. He was in bad shape for three years. Because he was a child he was not given any pain meds except Ibuprofen. He eventually recovered which we are all grateful for. Not everyone does.

To many of us with CRPS have suffered from the medical community lack of empathy and understanding. It’s devastating

This man in my opinion this man was telling the jury the type of pain that MAYA was in. He did this without mentioning her name at all. I believe that he wanted TRUTH and justice for Maya if found warranted. The world needs more People like this DOCTOR.

When i was 13 I was caught in a house fire. I had 3rd degree burns over 70 percent of my body and the pain was unbearable. 15 years later i broke my foot and developed R S D which is no called C.R.P.S like i said the pain from the burns unreal but here's the big difference it got better. After a couple months and a lot of surgeries the pain started to go away but with C.R.P.S the pain is always there 24/7. I went through the ketamine coma treatment like this girl and it helped a lot but i still deal with pain every day but ive learned to live with it. If not for my wife fighting for me just like this mother did I most likely would have died years ago from this disease. Maya mother being a RN nurse new if her daughter didn't get the right treatment she would most likely lose her daughter. Because she was confrontational the hospital labled her with a mental illness and took her daughter. What they did to this family is criminal and someone needs to go to prison for it.

As a HSP and empath it is very difficult to listen to this Doctors clear descrption of CRPS.. Painful. It is lasting and stays in the body after his description… May Glod bless all good people seeking the relief and eternal love and a life of Goodness ❤ may God absolve and dissolve all our pain and aflictions. If this speaks to you, I am sure you are on a path of Good and Love and you are a marvellous person made in the image of God. God loves you dear ❤ Thank you to these angelic doctors like Dr. Chopra here. The Kowalski family is victorious, Beata is in the arms of God resting and smiling that her baby girl has been retrieved back to her family. Even if it meant she succumbed to the ultimate sacrifice, her life on this earth. Well, her eternal mission of being a good mother, wife and nurse is well delivered. That is for sure ❤ RIP Beata Kowalski.

Subjective pain is rarely taken seriously in the medical field, as it's something that can't really be measured. And most times they think you are exaggerating it, or making it up, especially thinking that you're drug seeking.

❤ this testimony. Compassionate, provides for dignity and BELIEVES patients/family who have been told they are crazy/ enabling. Such an emotional and psychological safety net while treating the pain patients as human, deserving of sympathy, and benevolence. These physicians who believed Maya, treated her with consideration for her humanity, and reassured her that what she is experiencing is so touching. It is beyond the pale how JHACH staff and physicians, Dr. Sally Smith, CPS, Ms. Nies (harsh lady in pink) treated Maya and her family. I wonder if they should have to provide sensitivity training after this lawsuit, win or lose.

It really sucks to have a disease or sickness no one can see. I was hit by a car in 07, 2 years later body with nerve pain, burning, numbness and other stuff. Finally had a great doctor and many many test later I have Fibromyalgia. Family, didn’t believe always said crap to me that I was just being lazy, until my Mom was diagnosed with it as well and now they believe and now so does she cause she now knows how I’ve been feeling these years. Too be a kid with something like Fibromyalgia just sucks.

Now this is a DOCTOR. 🙏🏻❤️

Good for this patient for making Dr’s in the hospital responsible for not covering in treating her pain. Fish be something that is going to be happening in the future.

I can’t believe with all his knowledge and all her symptoms,that hospital thought she was faking ,and believed the social worker ,it had to be a scam they were running not only to get money ,but maybe also to steal the kids from the families ,this is beyond crazy

This is very interesting to me. When I took neuroscience more than twenty years ago, the general thought was that the glial cells had no ability to process anything. In my own reading, I came across a couple sentences in a book or journal article that indicated that they may do some processing. When I asked my prof about that, he clearly didn't give any credence to such an idea.

This doctor loves his work and can explain it very well on our level .

I too suffer from crps 2, since 2015. Over time, has spread full body to include some organs. I wish I could find a doctor like this! PRAYERS that this trial will help the medical field and others accept this is a real disease. Warriors need help and understanding. 🙏😪🧡🔥🧡 I don't want to die, but this is no way to live. Praying for Maya and her family.

Thank you doctor. What happened at John Hopkins is negligent and egregiously appalling beyond belief!!!

Yes a Dr. Can be Sued for not properly treating pain patients. There are actually attorneys that their practice is all they do. Things have changed since 2016 and the outlines and guidelines of the CDC changed in 2022 where they admitted with they did to Pain patients and doctors following their guidelines were absolutely wrong.

I like this doctor he is really great at explaining things and making it sound interesting and he also quite comfortable up there on the stand

I’m glad I listen to this doctor. It explained it so much better to me.❤

Maybe if they fired these people….it’s apparent to me, who has been to many Drs. before anyone believed me, they were “using hurt their egos” to show they weren’t to be questioned…. That mother…the entire family has suffered way too much!! The social worker STILL thought it was funny at times when her deposition was taken! I’m just sick by all of this pain that was inflicted!

I love this witness. He is one of two that I have seen so far that actually are professional and seems to know what they are talking about

As someone with an unknown chronic condition for the past 20 years, the type of pain/sensations that I experience have been an anomaly and hard to put into words, especially at the time it started when I was a preteen. But I'll share something that stuck out with the descriptions of Maya's ability to functions doing one thing, and then feel pain when they poke her. The coping mechanisms my brain acquired and physical shielding of suffering throughout this ordeal are difficult to make sense of. When I kept getting undermined and gaslit at such a young age and finding out no one could help me, you just learn to adapt and survive. Maya's ability to be able to play with her toys might have been one of those distraction antidotes that helps her in the moment to deflect her brain from the pain. But in the position where people are prodding at her, it refocuses her brain back to her situation and the pain is flared up. The stress of people poking at you may have exacerbated that as well. All in theory. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" expressed through my functional adaptations and coping was quite common in my experience with a chronic condition that I am still trying to figure out the source to this day. I think it is neurological. Unfortunately, I lost faith at a young age in doctors and the medical system. Please listen to your patients and meet them where they are at. It was not fun breaking into tears as a 13 year old just by one look from a dermatologist that looked at me as if I was insane or the most sickening person he has ever met. I was with my mom at the time. I waited for him to even leave the room to do that, not to look weak.

Exceptional testimony.

That doctor was fantastic.. prosecutors didn’t have a leg to stand on .. defence attorney did an amazing job..

I wish we could all have a doctor like him. I have trigeminal neuralgia. The only worse pain than this condition CRPS. My nerve pain condition is known as the su1c1d3 disease. I can't explain how this feels. It's the worse jaw and teeth pain you could ever imagine mixed with electric shocks in your teeth into you face and neck and ears. I have screamed for hours. I belong to support groups and found others even have it worse with this condition. I am grateful this man explained the type of pain that is felt in CRSP. If you have never felt it..its actually unbelievable to understand.

My spouse developed CRPS after stepping on a nail. It's SO hard to find regular physicians who understand it. Even in some pain clinics, they don't have this level of understanding and resort to "just take your Lyrica" arguments. Lyrica and gabapentin made her lips and throat swell instantly, so that's not a treatment option. We're still struggling to get some means of finding a measure of relief for her. It's shocking how many medical professionals just. don't. believe. you.

I have the trigeminal neuralgia pain for 13 1/2 years and it is suicide, pain level. Thankfully, after going through about four special neurologist, waste of time and money, I was given the name of Dr. Lew Disney In Southern California, and had surgery that none of the other doctors Mention , a surgery to relieve the pain . this surgery worked!!

This dr is so interesting and intelligent

Hey he's a great Doc!! Dr. Chopra was my confirming diagnosis of RSD/CRPS. Horrible dx.. humbled to be confirmed! I hope the Kowalski's get what they deserve! Exactly what they're asking for!!

I love how compassionate this do to is especially when he said he won't send his patients to for research studies, saying they are already in so much pain & already suffering so much. I wish all doctors are like him because from my experience as someone suffering from chronic pain, most doctors who doesn't specialize in pain tend to question their patients if it's only in our heads just because we tend to look normal & presentable when we meet them. To doubt us is even more painful than what we battle every single day of our lives.

An Indian doctor saved my live in India on a medical visa visit. Love them all! They are so people focused and family focused. They care about the full 360 of care. American doctors could use some lessons in practicing humble, caring, careful and cautious Medicine from Mexico or India.

I have CRPS in my left leg injury from a car accident I begged three Drs to cut my leg off. It feels like it’s on fire some days are worse than others. Very painful.

This doctor educate the witnesses to understand the sickness and he made it in very common language for everyone with out medical education to understand Maya’s pain . Amazon doctor ,the best witness so far I saw watching different videos.

This Doctor is fascinating!

Sounds so much like fibro. Wow. Mine has been getting worse.

You can clearly tell that he knows what he's talking about because he tried to explain everything in a way that people with no medical knowledge understand.

What they did ro this girl and her family is horrifying

The paper shuffling is really annoying. Anyway, I do like this doctor. He makes things so clear and seems to have such a great understanding of his work. He comes across very different to a lot of doctors and "experts". He thinks for himself, basically and is realistic. How refreshing! and gives me hope.

excellent testimony

Oh I can’t imagine what Maya went through, especially being a young child separated from her parents, family, etc. Every medical personnel that she dealt with at that hospital is liable.

He’s the first doctor that talks sense .. compared to the nurse she was appalling ..

Totally different disease but I was laughed at by several 'experts" I was referred to by my GP, told my symptoms were all in my head and finally told "no matter how many times we tell you there's nothing wrong with you you're never going to accept it". Meanwhile my GP did believe me and continued to research my symptoms for months. Finally she said " I think I know what you have ". She prescribed the proper meds and I have been completely free from symptoms for the past ten years.

This doctor's describing the state offices and vendors of DE. The doctor explains the pain. All I keep thinking is, this young woman was 9 years old experiencing this....

This even happens in dentistry. I’ve seen it first hand. It’s the nervous system and it’s very complex.

I’m wishing this family well. I hope the court rules in their favour. Although the judge doesn’t come across as fair, I am optimistic that he would review the case in detail and remain objective when he makes his ruling.

Love this doc and I’m so happy for the family. I couldn’t help but be reminded of Jim Gafigans dad bit when he started coughing and talking omg 😅

allodynia was missed from the symptom/ diagnostic list- important for the trail as the staff kept touching her, trying to prove she was faking-.our magill pain scale reading has gone up 4 points since i last looked,

Idk how MANY times I've had to explain about pain using that very example even to drs who told me, "I've had EXTREME pain in my life b4 & never complained or even took Tylenol." Well, you see its very diff if you've had a broken arm or been stabbed. You're in pain, yes but your KNOW if you just hold on for a day, a week, or 2w that your pain WILL end, where as my pain was EXTREME everyday ALL DAY & neverending. I woke up in extreme pain (assuming I got to sleep at all!) & Every TINY thing I did during the day even getting up to pee made my pain WORSE & there was never any end in sight! Your body can only take so much especially w\o Knowing it'll end b4 it literally pushes you past your breaking point! This is something that NEEDS to be drummed into Drs heads! Towards the end it became an EXTREME battle not to end myself every time I met w\a doctor who blew me off or called me dramatic!