I am so sorry you had this terrible accident, and it sounds like you have some health care professionals helping you...up to a point. They may be lacking in the reassurance category, right?!
I will see what information I can find for you, as far as your question for a time period for healing.
In the meantime, as I was reading your story, I was wondering why you (or is it your doctors) are questioning pain that you are experiencing in certain areas, that are seemingly unrelated to an injury in another location. (For instance, you said, "no one is paying attention to me when I tell them my...neck is hurting."). It sounds obvious from reading your story that of course you would have pain in many different areas of your body, even if they were not directly impacted by injury in your car accident. Your indirect pain makes sense from an outsider's standpoint, as you may be favoring one part of your body that puts excess pressure on another part and causing your body to unnaturally realign itself. The other way to look at indirect pain is that your body is not made up of individual parts, but rather all of the parts make up the whole person...and all of the parts can effect each other directly or indirectly. I hope that at least offers some reassurance that you can indeed listen to your body, and find health care professionals that will listen to you!
Can you tell us what specialists you are seeing, and if any of them include some of the "alternative or complementary" fields (such as massage therapy).
Take care, and I will find some information to help you in your healing process.
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Hi Jewell,
I am so sorry you had this terrible accident, and it sounds like you have some health care professionals helping you...up to a point. They may be lacking in the reassurance category, right?!
I will see what information I can find for you, as far as your question for a time period for healing.
In the meantime, as I was reading your story, I was wondering why you (or is it your doctors) are questioning pain that you are experiencing in certain areas, that are seemingly unrelated to an injury in another location. (For instance, you said, "no one is paying attention to me when I tell them my...neck is hurting."). It sounds obvious from reading your story that of course you would have pain in many different areas of your body, even if they were not directly impacted by injury in your car accident. Your indirect pain makes sense from an outsider's standpoint, as you may be favoring one part of your body that puts excess pressure on another part and causing your body to unnaturally realign itself. The other way to look at indirect pain is that your body is not made up of individual parts, but rather all of the parts make up the whole person...and all of the parts can effect each other directly or indirectly. I hope that at least offers some reassurance that you can indeed listen to your body, and find health care professionals that will listen to you!
Can you tell us what specialists you are seeing, and if any of them include some of the "alternative or complementary" fields (such as massage therapy).
Take care, and I will find some information to help you in your healing process.
October 27, 2009 - 9:23amThis Comment
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