Drowning in pain?
Drowning in pain?
Sorry, Mods, but I don't like this new picture/message/greeting. It's a bit of a downer image for those of us who are already feeling down because of our pain. I would much prefer a nice picture of . . . I dunno, a mountain lake with wildflowers growing along the shores? A pacific island beach? A rainbow? A cute smiling baby? Really, anything but an image of someone drowning in pain! Thank you.
Athlete until pain started in 2001. Diagnosed with PN in Nov. 2010. Probable cause: 3 difficult labors, 5 pelvic surgeries for endometriosis, and undiagnosed hip injuries. 60% better after 3 rounds of shockwave therapy in Cornwall, Ontario (Dec - Feb/12). 99% better after bilateral hip scopes for FAI and labral tears (April and July/12). Pelvic pain life coach Lorraine Faendrich helped me overcome the mind/body connection to chronic pain: http://www.radiantlifedesign.com
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Unfortunately I agree with lernica and had a similar reaction when I saw the new pictures.
Merrie
Merrie
PNE onset 9/2008
Weekly pelvic floor PT since 9/2008
Numerous nerve blocks 2008 - current (pn, s2-s4 epidurals, pelvic/lumbar/splanchnic sympathetic)
PRF s2,3,4 May 2009
Numerous hip injections and trigger point injections
Numerous rounds of botox (first 12/08 - most recent 5/13)
Hibner consult / Kalinkin MRI 11/10
PT with PHRC in May 2013
Weekly pelvic floor PT since 9/2008
Numerous nerve blocks 2008 - current (pn, s2-s4 epidurals, pelvic/lumbar/splanchnic sympathetic)
PRF s2,3,4 May 2009
Numerous hip injections and trigger point injections
Numerous rounds of botox (first 12/08 - most recent 5/13)
Hibner consult / Kalinkin MRI 11/10
PT with PHRC in May 2013
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I just thought that the little stick man trivializes what is traumatic for most people. I also think drowning doesn't really correlate to the nature of chronic pain. I realize it was an attempt to make your life preserver logo fit in, but I never really liked that, either.
PNE as a result of childbirth, 2002. Treatment by the Houston team, with neurosurgery by Dr. Ansell in 2004. My left side ST and SS ligaments were found to be grown together, encasing the pudendal nerve.
I am cured. I hope you will be, too.
There are no medical answers on the forum. Your only hope is to go to a doctor. I was very happy with the Houston team, which has treated the most PNE patients (well over 400), more than any other US provider.
http://www.tipna.org
I am cured. I hope you will be, too.
There are no medical answers on the forum. Your only hope is to go to a doctor. I was very happy with the Houston team, which has treated the most PNE patients (well over 400), more than any other US provider.
http://www.tipna.org
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I don't see a stick man. What are we talking about?
If we're thinking of changing the life preserver symbol, I like sunshine coming through clouds.
Emily B.
If we're thinking of changing the life preserver symbol, I like sunshine coming through clouds.
Emily B.
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Yes! I love your picture, Emily! It's a wonderful uplifting image of hope, beauty and inspiration -- absolutely perfect! Mods, please reconsider!Emily B wrote:
If we're thinking of changing the life preserver symbol, I like sunshine coming through clouds.
Emily B.
Athlete until pain started in 2001. Diagnosed with PN in Nov. 2010. Probable cause: 3 difficult labors, 5 pelvic surgeries for endometriosis, and undiagnosed hip injuries. 60% better after 3 rounds of shockwave therapy in Cornwall, Ontario (Dec - Feb/12). 99% better after bilateral hip scopes for FAI and labral tears (April and July/12). Pelvic pain life coach Lorraine Faendrich helped me overcome the mind/body connection to chronic pain: http://www.radiantlifedesign.com
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I had to go and look, I had not seen this. I have the forum bookmarked and only go to the main part of the website when I need to look things up.
I think this image is very good. The point is that it links with our lifebuoy image - offering help, offering rescue - and it is very eye-catching. For someone who is feeling that way - and we all know about that - it would catch their attention and make them want to read more. Could be improved upon by making the little man look more as if he is in pain as well as drowning, I think! Even better would be an actual image of someone in trouble in the water, rather than a stick man.
The sun coming through clouds is a beautiful image and lovely to look at, but it doesn't link with our lifebuoy logo/symbol at all, and I think it is just dressing things up to look pretty and attractive. It certainly is not going to catch anybody's attention.
I think we should stay with the 'Drowning in Pain'.
(By the way I have heard life preservers mentioned before, we don't use that word and I had assumed it was a sort of lifejacket, I now know that it is what we call a lifebuoy here in the UK. Divided by a common language again!
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I think this image is very good. The point is that it links with our lifebuoy image - offering help, offering rescue - and it is very eye-catching. For someone who is feeling that way - and we all know about that - it would catch their attention and make them want to read more. Could be improved upon by making the little man look more as if he is in pain as well as drowning, I think! Even better would be an actual image of someone in trouble in the water, rather than a stick man.
The sun coming through clouds is a beautiful image and lovely to look at, but it doesn't link with our lifebuoy logo/symbol at all, and I think it is just dressing things up to look pretty and attractive. It certainly is not going to catch anybody's attention.
I think we should stay with the 'Drowning in Pain'.
(By the way I have heard life preservers mentioned before, we don't use that word and I had assumed it was a sort of lifejacket, I now know that it is what we call a lifebuoy here in the UK. Divided by a common language again!
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I don't like the stick figure, either. I do like the Life Preserver very much, though. 
Ultra Sound in 03/08 showed severely retroverted, detaching uterus with mulitple fibroids and ovarian cysts.
Pressure and pain in lower abdomen and groin area was unspeakable and devastating.
Total lap hysterectomy in 06/08, but damage was already done.
EMG testing in NH in 04/10 - bilateral PN and Ilioinguals
3T MRI at HSS, NY in 09/10
Bilateral TG surgery with Dr. Conway on 03/29/11. Bilat ilioinguinal & iliohypogastric neurectomy 03/12. TCD surgery 04/14.
Pressure and pain in lower abdomen and groin area was unspeakable and devastating.
Total lap hysterectomy in 06/08, but damage was already done.
EMG testing in NH in 04/10 - bilateral PN and Ilioinguals
3T MRI at HSS, NY in 09/10
Bilateral TG surgery with Dr. Conway on 03/29/11. Bilat ilioinguinal & iliohypogastric neurectomy 03/12. TCD surgery 04/14.
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HerMajesty
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maybe the wave and the motto with life preserver instead of stick man? He looks kind of cheesy to me.
pelvic pain started 1985 age 14 interstitial cystitis. Refused medical care from age 17, did GREAT with self care for years.
2004 PN started gradually, disabled by 2009. Underlying cause SIJD & Tarlov cysts
improved with PT & meds: neurontin, valium, nortriptyline, propanolol. (off nortriptyline & propanolol now, yay!)
Tarlov cyst surgery with Dr. Frank Feigenbaum March 20, 2012.
Results have been excellent so far; but I won't know my final functional level for a couple of years.
2004 PN started gradually, disabled by 2009. Underlying cause SIJD & Tarlov cysts
improved with PT & meds: neurontin, valium, nortriptyline, propanolol. (off nortriptyline & propanolol now, yay!)
Tarlov cyst surgery with Dr. Frank Feigenbaum March 20, 2012.
Results have been excellent so far; but I won't know my final functional level for a couple of years.
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helenlegs 11
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Don't think I'd dive in to save him. Sorry, stick man.
Fall 2008. Misdiagnosed with lumber spine problem. MRN June 2010 indicated pudendal entrapment at Alcocks canal. Diagnosed with complex variant piriformis syndrome with sciatic, pudendal and gluteal entrapment's by Dr Filler 2010.Guided piriformis botox injection 2011 Bristol. 2013, Nerve conduction test positive; new spinal MRI scan negative, so diagnosed for the 4th time with pelvic nerve entrapment, now recognised as Sciatic, pudendal, PFCN and cluneal nerves at piriformis level.
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Oh....I see it now. It's on the home page. I always just follow my link directly to the forums. I think the drowning guy fits in well with the Hope life preserver.
Emily B.
Emily B.