How does chronic pain affect your well-being and daily life? Let's share!

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05/25/2021 at 4:28 PM

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@JeniferSchwab Have you tried a massage chair? It's really helped my chronic pain.

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I've had chronic pain for 30 years,an am depressed a fair amount,my ears are constantly screaming with tinitis,I have 5 bulging discs in spine from years of heavy trucking,ulcerative colitis,a vascular necrosis,emphysemaemphysema etc.God bless all .

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05/29/2021 at 5:51 PM

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Hello Courtney,

How are you? Living with chronic pIn is a burden you have good days and bad days but you continue to move on. How are you? I have received one dose of covid and will receive another one in another week. It has not affected me in anyway. Thank you, Pammy

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Chronic pain and insomnia seem to follow hand in hand. I try to find something positive in these negatives.
I know it could be worse,and there are some who unfortunately do. Try to find something that is a silver lining. This disease has made me a stronger person. Blessings to everyone.

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Being in pain all the time really wears you down. I have psoriatic arthritis and it's like night and day when I'm having a flare and when it's under control. If you're in pain, you can't sleep, if you don't sleep, you're in pain and your mood is low... It's a vicious cycle. It's good to know I'm not alone. Not good that others are suffering, I mean, but it helps knowing that I'm not alone in this.

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being in pain for most of my adult life has been a rollercoaster. I hurt every single day with pain of something on my body. I have had open hear.t surgery, they took a bunion off my left foot and I hurt it again yesterday, so I need to get it checked out to make sure nothing moved in thier. I also had 2 mini strokes which screw-up my memory and I've Got 2 anurysms one was coiled and one they are watching. I also have ptsd.scizofrantic.anxiety and mood swings and a sleep disorder.

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06/26/2021 at 5:21 PM

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My chronic pain I search for treatments not related to taking pain pills. It affects my mobility and then the lack of mobility affects my weight and muscles. I have nerve blocks and epidurals when needed and go to physical therapy when prescribed. I manage my life accordingly.

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06/26/2021 at 7:13 PM

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Chronic pain is a pain in the butt!! Every time you broach the subject medical team looks at you like your drug seeking!! Well some of us aren’t we just need to kick this pain to the curb and enjoy life!!!!! I know one Dr kept on raising my oxycodon and it wasn’t helping the pain. Then I saw a pain Dr and she/he put me on suboxone. Well that was just great but medical people really thought you were a drug addict not realizing it is for people with chronic pain.
Then the VA put me on Nucynta or Tapentadol and that helped but my back was in horrible pain and the Nucynta didn’t touch it much and they tried pain patches and creams and so on. Then a pain Dr did ablations in the SI joint and let me tell you, he was a ass but that began to help. I had to fight to be put earlier on the schedule or that would have been 6 months out!! If people don’t have the pain then they just don’t understand. A lot of my pain was actively working as a nurse and of course weight. I hate saying weight cause I was smaller and now larger. I hate all this weight but I haven’t worked in 10 years and surely trying to fight for exercise eqtthat would help me. Man it’s a double edge sword. Yes I still have pain all over and it sucks!!

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My chronic pain is my migraines. I have medication but try to destress with exercise and meditation.

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I have Chronic Fatigue and my body has become riddled with pain, burning,numbness.

I don't know how to even describe how I feel sometimes.

On days that I do feel okay I try to do housework and laundry, maybe work a little in my raised bed garden. The bad thing is how will I feel in a few hours or tomorrow. I never know until I'm in excruciating pain, or sometimes I'm just a little sore. There is No rhyme or reason. NONE

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On top of chronic knee and back pain I have neuropathy so I'm constantly dealing with pain makes me just want to stay in bed but then that causes pain too

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@JeniferSchwab Have you tried a massage chair? It's really helped my chronic pain.

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@JeniferSchwab I understand your chronic pain. I also have degeneration in my back, neck, hips, and knees. I have already had my hips replaced. Next is to rebuild my back using rods and screws. Right now, however, I'm getting ready to have the nerves clipped in my lower back. I've already had nerve blocks in my L5 L4 vertebrae. Then, since thay one didn't help, he did L5 S1. If this works I will have relief for a while, which, could stop helping at any time and can have 3 in 6 months, amd I've had 2. I can have one more nerve block if I need it in this 6 month period. I dread it stopping. It will be bad since I've had the middle, lower back relief. I also have neuropathy. Which, the nerve blocks are to relieve all the nerve pain.. but I guess the nerves in the neuropathy have a lot of damage already because it didn't seem to relieve that. My neuropathy comes from my back. Im not a diabetic. I bet you aren't either. I had a nerve conduction test a while back that proved what the podiatrist suspected. Since then it's gradually gotten a little worse until right recently where it's gotten a lot worse. I tell you , here I am in thus painful body with relief in one area n the rest hurting. When u get a specific area done, you still have that painful shell and your attention just shifts from there to the next worse pain you have in whatever body part. For instance, my back lower than L5 and down is where my next most chronic pain is and it hurts so bad i can barely rise up in bed to get up. Its horrible pain. Now, yesterday I woke up with horrible pain in the side of my shin on my right leg. I don't know what to do??? Do I call dr.amd go since I slept long and late and what if its a blood clot. Am I being paranoid ... what could it possibly be??? I'm nor bruised, I didn't walk into anything there and it's the whole left part of my calf anyhow. I also have fibrimyalga, which, doesn't bother me compared to this degenerative pain. All I know is I'm sick of pain. Should I go ahead and have the surgery and forget these shots which hurt worse than hell to get and sometimes work and sometimes don't? U think i should give these nerve burn things here n if they don't work, go back to the surgeon, for the new back...I hear it's very painful..the recovery. I hear some people have to ve cut through their stomach too while they doing it. I don't pwant that, at all. I guess if all these shots don't work, I'll go on amd and see if he says he'll have to.go in. through the stomach too,.ill.just have to somehow deal with it. You can't get a pain pill anymore, although, they can see the damage even in xray and for sure the mri. Those results are all over the place to your drs . I hope you find some relief soon. It's very depressing to be in so much pain and not be able to play with kids or even clean your own house. Things like hiking and sometimes even walking for exercise are impossible. Like with me, I had baractric surgery in November and because of pain I can not stand to walk far for my hip, coming from my back hurts so bad. I've not been able to even walk through the grocery store. Bless you and best wishes.

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