Why PMA?
Pain Management Assistant (PMA) will be the next incarnation of the Pain Management Tracker program I developed originally. Its intent is to be far greater and more useful then the first. Pain isn’t managed by medicine alone. In fact pain medicine is only one part of the puzzle which when working properly can help lower your pain by 30% if your lucky. So what about the other 70%?
On my last visit to my pain management physician I was proud to tell them I had had the best month since the start of my ordeal. In the previous almost 8 years, five of them post surgery (when my neuropathy was made permanent) I hadn’t had a month with my pain managed so well.
Now, two weeks later I am certainly feeling I spoke too soon. Consistency or the lack is one of the difficulties in managing pain. There are always good months and bad months, but the bigger question to me is why? What’s different? What changed? Better so, what’s the best way I can show my doctor?
Pain Management Tracker tracks the pain levels to medicine ratios for you. That program can be a tool to help you work with your physician to isolate what medicines are working, when they are working and how effectively. Further, when a regimen changes how does it affect you overall.
In my case it looks like a new treatment that started over two months ago but which has been paused in the recent month is at least part of the issue here. To prove the point tomorrow I will have more blood work done to see where the levels over various items are.
So if you are fighting similar battles with pain I invite you to download the free pain management tracking software and try using it yourself. Let me know how it goes for you, if it helps, or if you can think of a way I can improve it. Hopefully together we can all have a little less pain in our lives.