joan's excellent post about the display and interpretation of pain just makes
me want to rant again about one of my pet (okay, what is a much much stronger
word than peeves) - anyway, i get supremely unhappy when i see a client who
reports that she kept telling everyone who asked that she was in TERRIBLE
EXCRUCIATING pain, yet they just looked at her and said, well, he's latched
on okay, so i just don't . . . and then they would just vanish without
helping her. sometimes mothers even get insulted by persons implying that
they are "wimps" who just can't stand normal "discomfort."

what other area of medicine is there in which pain is completely dismissed as
a symptom? in other words, if i go to the er and complain that i have a
terrible pain in my gut, i would not expect someone to look at the outside of
my insides and say "well, looks okay from here, just ignore the pain, you are
probably oversensitive." right? or are there new advances in medicine cooked
up by insurance companies where this actually happens? don't answer this last
question, i already know. sigh.

carol brussel IBCLC

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