Well, research the surgery, and find out if the doctor's lack of fandom is due to poor outcomes. And research other possibilities, too, if you can. But it is your life, and your doctors don't have to suffer the way you do.
I once thought if I was a super villain, I would force my doctors to wear leather mittens until they could figure out what's wrong with me, so they too would have something that seems not-too-bad at first, but just never leaves them alone, and that pops up in surprising ways to annoy them, and it doesn't quite leave their life worthless, but completely impacts the quality of that life.
Then I realized that any decent supervillain would just use a bomb, instead, and realized I was a lousy supervillain. And I guess I'm okay with that.
But the real point is, the doctors don't have to live with it, and they don't have to deal with *any* difficulty, really, if they fail to find some way to provide relief. So in the end - and I wish this wasn't true! - you're the one who has to figure out what kinds of treatments you can attempt to find relief.
One thing I will mention: chronic pain support groups *can* help. They don't alleviate the pain, of course, but they help people cope, and that's more important than it might seem. (And sometimes they may have people in them who have done some of the research for you. Always double check, of course.)
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Date: 2013-09-25 04:01 am (UTC)I once thought if I was a super villain, I would force my doctors to wear leather mittens until they could figure out what's wrong with me, so they too would have something that seems not-too-bad at first, but just never leaves them alone, and that pops up in surprising ways to annoy them, and it doesn't quite leave their life worthless, but completely impacts the quality of that life.
Then I realized that any decent supervillain would just use a bomb, instead, and realized I was a lousy supervillain. And I guess I'm okay with that.
But the real point is, the doctors don't have to live with it, and they don't have to deal with *any* difficulty, really, if they fail to find some way to provide relief. So in the end - and I wish this wasn't true! - you're the one who has to figure out what kinds of treatments you can attempt to find relief.
One thing I will mention: chronic pain support groups *can* help. They don't alleviate the pain, of course, but they help people cope, and that's more important than it might seem. (And sometimes they may have people in them who have done some of the research for you. Always double check, of course.)