I feel totally betrayed by my husband. He gets so angry with me when I come home from doing chores and the "first thing you do is put pajamas on and lay down." He says I am weak minded and not to give in too the pain. He refuses to read anything about fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and the multitude of other symptoms that I have. I fell down some stairs in 1987. I injured my neck and knocked my pelvis and SI joint out of place. I had symptoms of a disc injury, but none could be found. 18 months later while I was at a Pain Clinic for four weeks they discovered the SI upslip. There was a lot of scar tissue around it and it had pulled my leg up shorter than the other one. They tried manipulation therapy, discussed surgery for fusion, a lot of other things. Finally decided the best thing to do was nothing. I was assigned a bunch of stretching excercises to do each day. Nothing helped the pain I was in constantly, my whole body hurts. My husband has chronic head pain. He has Cluster Headaches. After many years of suffering he found help at the Diamond head ache Clinic in Chicago. I read all I could find on headaches. We found ourselves in Chicago due to a Dr. I worked ER with who saw a TV show about Cluster headaches and Dr Diamond. He came around to my office and told me about it. He belived my husband had this type of headache. He had treated my husband in ER many times over that past year. Thank you Dr. Coleman, we now know exactly what to take for his head pain after about a year of trial and error.. My husband now tells me I am weak. If I am, it is due to my own Chronic pain and years of taking care of him, working full time as a Nursing Assistant and taking Respiratory Care Practitioner classes, raising two sons, working midnights to have evenings free for my sons and thier social life. During his illness my husband did not work, he drove trucks, the really big ones. He couldn't safely drive while screaming in pain. I supported us, paid for finishing our house we were building, made the car and insurance payments. Now I am on Disability also , and all he does is find fault with me. I get no support from him at all. I resent all the hours I spent massaging his scalp and neck muscles when he was screaming with the cluster head pain. He has sucked the life energy out of me.
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