In 2003, when I had my initial injury, I was first prescribed pain medication. When you have a surgery like that on your spine all the pressure must go somewhere else, so it's distributed to all ...

Doctors prescribed me pain meds but couldn’t help me get off them January 22, 2017 More than 8 years ago HANDOUT: Narrative Matters illustration for 01-24 issue.

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On a weeklong business trip to Japan in fall 2019, I felt a shock of pain in my face, as if someone was stabbing me. The moments were fleeting — as quickly as they started, they stopped.

I glanced over the doctor's shoulder as he pointed to white spots on an MRI of my brain. "These are areas of demyelination." He spoke definitively, as if 13 years of no diagnosis for symptoms like ...