I made this graphic and am awaiting for the hoodie to arrive with this printed on it! Please utilize this as a means to be able to spread the word that we are in the deepest of needs right now! In the medical industry, that is. Please know that i would be updating daily if i were physically able to. Please be patient with me, but also please share like crazy!! You never know who you come across that has been affected by chronic pain and the stigma behind it. Changes have to be made and our voices need to be heard by those that can make the changes needed. While possibly creating a tidal wave of change rather than a ripple in a pond. We all deserve quality of life. What is your quality of life, on a scale of 1-10? If you are not a chronically ill/pain patient, you probably have never had to ask yourself that question. But we do, just like the pain scale. My quality of life right now is about a 6. It's not great and i am receiving SOME treatment. I wasn't receiving treatment for 5 years due to the CDC guidelines. But everyone fails to acknowledge that there were amendments made in 2022, as well, to those guidelines. When will the probation check-in style appointments stop? When will patients be heard and believed again? When will people stop listening to the propaganda machine that tells you to hate us because we are so sick? Also, because we require medications to get through our day.  When will the stigma end? What if the tables were turned and we told doctors undergoing surgeries that they would be fine with Tylenol after open heart surgery, knee replacement, total hysterectomy? When do we get to have them experience our pain so they know what they are treating? God knows there is already technology to do this. Something such as tens units. multiple used at the same time in all the places we hurt on a constant basis!!  Leave it on them for the duration of your appt. If your pain spikes, then their tens gets turned up too. Until they feel what we suffer with, they will never fully understand! 

Keep up the beautiful work you are all doing to spread the word! Thank you so very much for all of that! We NEED this to STICK!! Too many are dying and in pure torture! NONE of that is OKAY! 

NOBODY SHOULD BE LEFT TO SUFFER IN PAIN!!