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Yes, the hospital I went to for its pain clinic has a psychiatrist - or perhaps it's psychologist working as the head of the department.
Anyway, his two main functions, as far as I know are
1) BS detector, i.e. weed out the drugseekers from the pain patients,
and
2) Psychological counselling, such as determining whether you need additional things such as a neurostimulator, biofeedback, physiotherapy, or even the Lord him/her self (no disrespect, just being openminded).
The upshot is, you get quite a workup and a profiling, and from that, they determin how you see your own suffering, i.e. how you subjectively rate your pain, how you want to deal with it, etc.
Well, at least a specialist in the field now believes I am in pain and not just a drugseeker. That is a major plus. Whether he will be able to convince my GP to give me opiate therapy (which he feels is appropriate) is another story.
Luckily I managed to obtain some Ty. #1 from Canada, but it's no match for Roxicodone 15 mg, and the Caffeine is giving me jitters from heck (Hell yet to come, hehee).
Thanks all for the support!!! I am still arming myself as we speak. Friday is D-day, so to speak.
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