I’ll start with the poem I wrote above. I wrote it about chronic pain. And I often write poetry about my experience or existence with
Category: chronic pain
Are you ‘wallowing’ in pain?
One of the most powerful strategies we have seen in treating pain is when we don’t allow patients to discuss their pain with anyone –
Chronic illness: That isn’t me
I am a shadow of who I could be. Who I would be without chronic pain and chronic illness. Pain and illness changes us What
Chronic illness: best laid plans
the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry It is summer. There are loads of things to do in the summer. We get
A complaint letter to pain
The Pain Companion, by Sarah Anne Shockey, has a few exercises to explore pain and your relationship to it. (see my review). One of those exercises
Survival mode and migraine: When hell endures
There are times when living with Migraine, Cluster, or other headache disorders feels like hell. Everything goes wrong and it feels like our misery will
I am whatever it takes
Day 6 of the migraine social media challenge is: People living with Migraine, Cluster, post-trauma headache, or other headache disorder often refer to themselves as
The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome awareness
It is EDS awareness month. Here is some EDS info here. I have Hypermobile EDS (hEDS) When I was diagnosed it was Joint Hypermobility with
Review: Benepod
“I have been given this product as part of a product review process. Although the product was a gift, all opinions in this review remain
The unseen cost of pain
Pain had symptoms. And pain has a cost. And when we look at the cost of pain we have to acknowledge it is more than the
You know you have chronic pain when…
You know you have chronic pain when… You have nuanced pain to a variety of levels of intolerable and tolerable, functional and non-functional. When you
Chronic illness: Knowing the past is fearing the future
For some of us, we have years of pain to reflect on. And that can mean times where we didn’t cope well at all.
When you are ready for spring (because you loathe winter)
It is March. It is spring, isn’t it? Not in Canada, it isn’t. No, we just had a blizzard. But it is warm winter, not
Chronic pain: How we are socially unacceptable
I’m just going to say it, there is a lot of stigma with chronic pain that makes society as a whole judge us as socially
