When you have a chronic illness, or two, or five it can get expensive and more often than not the more disabling it is the more likely it is it will impact your capacity to make an income or your income stability. It is like trying to balance an impossible equation It is the ultimate … Continue reading Being Chronically ill is more expensive than people believe
Chronic pain: My broken pain alarm system
Those of us with chronic pain are very much aware that chronic pain is a broken pain signal that can't be turned off and we have absolutely no control over the volume either. So it is blaring its pain signal all the damn time, whether we are active, or not. Yes, we have to stay … Continue reading Chronic pain: My broken pain alarm system
The neuromatrix theory of how pain becomes chronic and its use for pain management
Pain research has progressed over the years while pain treatment really hasn't adapted to that new research. Pain treatment is very biomedical but research has long suggested a much more multidisciplinary and multimodal methodology. Hell, even I, as a pain patient have really thought a multidisciplinary approach is quite fundamental but not really focused on … Continue reading The neuromatrix theory of how pain becomes chronic and its use for pain management
Pain Awareness Month: pain impact
Yes, September is Pain Awareness Month. A time to remind myself that other people have no idea what this chronic pain thing is all about. Drugs only help 58% of chronic pain sufferers.WebMD I suspect that people without chronic pain might know that Pain is actually the sucky part of chronic pain. The really, really … Continue reading Pain Awareness Month: pain impact
Chronic pain treatment expectations
When you were diagnosed with chronic pain what were your treatment expectations, if any? And what did the doctor or specialist imply the treatment expectations were? It is strange with some pain. With fibromyalgia my pain, back in the day, was mostly ignored and not treated or managed until I was a lot older. The … Continue reading Chronic pain treatment expectations
Regulating emotions with chronic pain
We all know chronic pain brings with it a hefty emotional toll. And we know that chronic pain does alter our neurotransmitter balance. A study from UNSW Sydney and NeuRAÂ (published in the European Journal of Pain) found that people with chronic pain also have a specific imbalance of neurotransmitters in the part of the brain … Continue reading Regulating emotions with chronic pain
