u/angelsinsect

Dream career is neuropsychology. My fascination and passion in life is pain and addiction. I also have a soft spot for children, as I was an adolescent when pain and addiction infiltrated my life.

What I’ve learned about pain science, neuroscience, and psychology has turned my life upside down. I never thought I’d be able to work a full time job because of my pain. And that I’d always be in active addiction.

After attending a pain rehab, I finished my bachelors in web design and landed a full time job before I finished my degree. And I got sober. That being said I am not passionate about web design and feel no urge to progress my career in it aside from financial need.

I want to teach others about pain. I want to research effective modalities for teaching children, adolescents, and their families about pain. I want to help enlighten others the way I was enlightened. And perhaps learn some new things for the world while I’m at it.

With this info in mind, what route (if any of these) would you recommend? Masters to PhD in psychology? Masters to PhD in neuroscience? Masters of social work? Masters of counseling?

My concerns are future financial stability and ability to use my education and job experience and eventually move out of the country (from US to EU). I have chronic health conditions causing pain and disability so nursing and medicine are out of the picture for me unfortunately (due to the physical strain).

Lastly, if I want to move to the EU someday, do I try to go to school somewhere in the EU? My family and support system is in the US, but I would definitely consider it.

TLDR; Individual with a bachelors in web design looking to give back to the world by educating others on pain and addiction. BSN/MSN and MD are out of the picture because of chronic health condition limitations. Which paths should I consider?

Dream career is neuropsychology. My fascination and passion in life is pain and addiction. I also have a soft spot for children, as I was an adolescent when pain and addiction infiltrated my life.

What I’ve learned about pain science, neuroscience, and psychology has turned my life upside down. I never thought I’d be able to work a full time job because of my pain. And that I’d always be in active addiction.

After attending a pain rehab, I finished my bachelors in web design and landed a full time job before I finished my degree. And I got sober. That being said I am not passionate about web design and feel no urge to progress my career in it aside from financial need.

I want to teach others about pain. I want to research effective modalities for teaching children, adolescents, and their families about pain. I want to help enlighten others the way I was enlightened. And perhaps learn some new things for the world while I’m at it.

With this info in mind, what route (if any of these) would you recommend? Masters to PhD in psychology? Masters to PhD in neuroscience? Masters of social work? Masters of counseling?

My concerns are future financial stability and ability to use my education and job experience and eventually move out of the country (from US to EU). I have chronic health conditions causing pain and disability so nursing and medicine are out of the picture for me unfortunately (due to the physical strain).

Lastly, if I want to move to the EU someday, do I try to go to school somewhere in the EU? My family and support system is in the US, but I would definitely consider it.

TLDR; Individual with a bachelors in web design looking to give back to the world by educating others on pain and addiction. BSN/MSN and MD are out of the picture because of chronic health condition limitations. Which paths should I consider?

Dream career is neuropsychology. My fascination and passion in life is pain and addiction. I also have a soft spot for children, as I was an adolescent when pain and addiction infiltrated my life.

What I’ve learned about pain science, neuroscience, and psychology has turned my life upside down. I never thought I’d be able to work a full time job because of my pain. And that I’d always be in active addiction.

After attending a pain rehab, I finished my bachelors in web design and landed a full time job before I finished my degree. And I got sober. That being said I am not passionate about web design and feel no urge to progress my career in it aside from financial need.

I want to teach others about pain. I want to research effective modalities for teaching children, adolescents, and their families about pain. I want to help enlighten others the way I was enlightened. And perhaps learn some new things for the world while I’m at it.

With this info in mind, what route (if any of these) would you recommend? Masters to PhD in psychology? Masters to PhD in neuroscience? Masters of social work? Masters of counseling?

My concerns are future financial stability and ability to use my education and job experience and eventually move out of the country (from US to EU). I have chronic health conditions causing pain and disability so nursing and medicine are out of the picture for me unfortunately (due to the physical strain).

Lastly, if I want to move to the EU someday, do I try to go to school somewhere in the EU? My family and support system is in the US, but I would definitely consider it.

TLDR; Individual with a bachelors in web design looking to give back to the world by educating others on pain and addiction. BSN/MSN and MD are out of the picture because of chronic health condition limitations. Which paths should I consider?

EDIT: it’s even after shower and am wearing deodorant. I think it’s coming from my skin and not my armpits.

Whenever I get massages my pain flares up, I get feverish, and I feel sick for a couple days. Lots of pain and fatigue. Does this happen to anyone else?

I don’t get them anymore btw.

I’m not sure whether to attribute it to the cymbalta tapering or to something else.

A family member is in hospice care. Medicare stopped paying for it because they weren’t sicker after 6 months (they were, just not in a way that Medicare required).

Hospice stopped managing this family member and in the past month they have been hospitalized twice for untreated uti’s and falling out of their bed.

Can we pay to have hospice continue seeing this family member out of pocket in the future? The transfer of care left them in a terrible position and we’d love to avoid that in the future.

It was so painful and scary for me. And my cardiologist kept saying “we used more anesthetic than necessary so you shouldn’t feel any pain” and I was feeling it all. I even felt bumping around in my chest during the procedure. I was around 18 years old at the time by the way.

I felt pain when I had my loop recorder implanted too despite being under twilight sedation. I was screaming from the pain from the scalpel. I was in a dream state but felt all the pain.

My mom and I have very high tolerances to local anesthetics and either feel the pain of a procedure or need to insist on more and more medication.

They wanted me awake for certain measurements apparently. I vowed never to do one awake again. I have hEDS and neuromuscular disease by the way. If that is relevant.

I was assuming in person would be better because of networking opportunities and hands on learning.

What is your experience? Is online just as good or would you do in person if you could?

Thanks in advance.

The pain was worse than I’ve ever experienced. I was sweating and throwing up. Moaning in pain. And I’ve had multiple spinal fusions and have a high pain tolerance. I’ve been told I have endometriosis and was put on norethindrone to stop my periods. Can’t do transvaginal ultrasound due to pain.

I had very high white blood cell counts and was septic. The pain was moving around my abdomen. They couldn’t see well from CT scan or ultrasound because I have spinal fusion hardware on almost my entire spine.

They gave me multiple rounds of antibiotics. On the third day, they were waiting for approval to do “exploratory surgery” and remove my gallbladder, appendix, and look around for what the real cause could be.

That afternoon, while waiting for approval, the pain subsided and the next day I was discharged. No surgery, but also no clue as to what was wrong. The doctor said maybe it was a UTI. I thought no fucking way.

I’m wondering if it could’ve been an ovarian cyst rupture. Or if anyone else has a similar experience and what it was for them?

Working on tapering from taking 60mg daily for 6 years.

I started tapering doing 60 40 60 40 etc.

Then I was doing:
60mg, 40mg, 40mg, 60mg, 40mg, 40mg
(1 day of sixty, 2 days of forty, repeat)
For over a month.

Then switched to:
60mg, 40mg, 40mg, 40mg, 60mg, 40mg
(1 day of sixty, theee days of forty, repeat)

And I’m crying so hard today I haven’t cried like this in a long time. I’m no longer clinically depressed and I believe this is a side effect of the cymbalta taper.

Does anyone have a similar experience? I just want to be off of this damn drug. How is such a small change in dosage making such a big difference?

Working on tapering from taking 60mg daily for 6 years.

I started tapering doing 60 40 60 40 etc.

Then I was doing:
60mg, 40mg, 40mg, 60mg, 40mg, 40mg
(1 day of sixty, 2 days of forty, repeat)
For over a month.

Then switched to:
60mg, 40mg, 40mg, 40mg, 60mg, 40mg
(1 day of sixty, theee days of forty, repeat)

And I’m crying so hard today I haven’t cried like this in a long time. I’m no longer clinically depressed and I believe this is a side effect of the cymbalta taper.

Does anyone have a similar experience? I just want to be off of this damn drug. How is such a small change in dosage making such a big difference?