This adventure is a sucky one. I wouldn’t recommend it. At all. I got pain, man, and it is multiplying. So I am without my
Tag: chronic pain
No painkillers: going off the tramadol
So the neuro I saw for my insurance company had some ‘suggestions’. Go on Cymbalta again (even though it made me so suicidal I tried
7 things I use to survive the winter
Winter just amps up the pain and I have no temperature control so I am constantly freezing. Constantly. So I need to manage the pain
Chronic pain and the emotions
Emotions are a completely normal experience of pain. And in high pain, it is normal to feel anger or sadness. This is because pain, in
Chronic pain: Treatment alternatives
In this massive wave of the opiate epidemic washing over pain patients, people are asking what is there to replace the treatment we had that
Pacing tips for chronic illness
I wrote a few articles on this topic recently: Enhancing our pacing game Chronic illness and the art of pacing Pacing is exceptionally hard in
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
Are limits meant to be… nudged?
Sometimes we exceed our limits to have an adventure… and we pay the price. But we plan for the consequences of our actions and are
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.
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
Chronic Pain: Fake it till you make it
Just Fake it till you Make it Just push through the pain I have lived with chronic pain for a very long time and that
We wear our pain on the inside
We mask our pain We lose our pain behaviors We become invisible. We all learn to have a façade to hide the pain for various
Illness & work: I hit myself in the feels
I was talking to my spouse about my capacity to work which is nill right now, and the incapacity for my insurance company to pay
