Pain Research Priorities Workshop: Optimizing Interventions to Improve Pain Management

Co-led by John T. Farrar and Claudia Campbell, presentations and discussion centered around optimizing existing or novel interventions to better suit patient populations; understanding who responds to which treatments; and incorporating the views of individuals with lived experience in development and optimization of interventions.

[NancyJanitz]

I was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease at age 42; just after I was finished with early menopause and I had a severe reaction and spontaneous hemorrhage with the medication *Daypro, just after three months of one capsule daily and I almost died. I then went to physical therapy for six months and it worked for me for 13 years until my first Major Sciatica pain started and I was not a candidate for Spinal Fusion surgery and I was sent to the pain specialist for Triamcinolone Acetonide and FlouroScopic Dye injections for every three months for just over 11 years until they did a RNA epidemic test which I had not consented to and the results were very bad and it was not a very good result that they did not understand what it meant. But it showed I had anemia and inflammation and I new the toxic effects of the epidural injections so I stopped it in 2021! I have been using lidocaine for my pain but it is not going away and it is a progressive disease which I have to live with at 70 years old .