I have multiple sclerosis and have to go to the MS clinic every few months. When I am at the clinic, I meet with several different specialists who ask me questions and give me advice to help me deal with this chronic condition.
At one of the appointments I recently met with the psychopharmacologist. We sat in a room where he asked me questions which I answered. At one point, he said, "You're not giving me anything that I can help you with" and he seemed a bit angry.
I said,
"I am answering your questions, maybe you're not asking the right questions."
He seemed anggry at that point.
I was having episodes of extreme pain that would shoot through my lower jaw. The pain would appear suddenly, like when you hit your funnybone, but much more painful, and then it would go away just as quickly. It became so painful that I was afraid to move my jaw. Sometimes drinking liquid would trigger it.
I went to the emergency room at a local hospital, and after waiting for a while, a doctor came into the room I was waiting in. She looked at my teeth, asked if there was any specific thing that makes the pain occur, "Do you grind your teeth in your sleep?"
I am unaware of grinding my teeth, typically, I am unconscious when I am asleep.
I went and sat down again, and she went to a computer in the adjacent room. She was at the computer for only a minute or two, and then returned with a prescription to take to the pharmacy to get it filled.
The medication that was prescribed is one I have heard of advertised for the treatment of Fibromyalgia, and it works for the trigeminal neuralgia that I was diagnosed with.
I wasn't making a joke about being unconscious when I sleep, but sometimes I get asked a question that seems absurd to me, I am just trying to answer the questions.
At one of the appointments I recently met with the psychopharmacologist. We sat in a room where he asked me questions which I answered. At one point, he said, "You're not giving me anything that I can help you with" and he seemed a bit angry.
I said,
"I am answering your questions, maybe you're not asking the right questions."
He seemed anggry at that point.
I was having episodes of extreme pain that would shoot through my lower jaw. The pain would appear suddenly, like when you hit your funnybone, but much more painful, and then it would go away just as quickly. It became so painful that I was afraid to move my jaw. Sometimes drinking liquid would trigger it.
I went to the emergency room at a local hospital, and after waiting for a while, a doctor came into the room I was waiting in. She looked at my teeth, asked if there was any specific thing that makes the pain occur, "Do you grind your teeth in your sleep?"
I am unaware of grinding my teeth, typically, I am unconscious when I am asleep.
I went and sat down again, and she went to a computer in the adjacent room. She was at the computer for only a minute or two, and then returned with a prescription to take to the pharmacy to get it filled.
The medication that was prescribed is one I have heard of advertised for the treatment of Fibromyalgia, and it works for the trigeminal neuralgia that I was diagnosed with.
I wasn't making a joke about being unconscious when I sleep, but sometimes I get asked a question that seems absurd to me, I am just trying to answer the questions.
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