When you live with chronic pain, it often feels lonely because most people do not have chronic pain and think that you can cure yourself by taking your medication, eating healthy, and exercising more, but that is only true for some people. Chronic pain affects everything you do and changes you because you are not … Continue reading Five Things Chronic Pain Takes From You
When you are in pain and go to the doctor, it is Iikely you will be given the pain scale and asked to rank your pain from zero to ten. The pain scale has its place, and it's great for children, but it's not the best way to measure pain because it only tells you … Continue reading Questions I Wish Doctors Would Ask Chronic Pain Patients
When you live with chronic pain, you are in pain all the time and don't get a break from it, but not every day is going to be a bad day. You have good days when your pain is bearable and bad days when getting up to go to the bathroom feels like it should … Continue reading Reminders For Bad Pain Days
When you live with chronic pain, sometimes it can feel like no one gets it because most people do not have chronic pain and have no idea what it's like. It can be difficult for people without chronic pain to understand pain that they cannot see, and sometimes people don't believe your pain is real … Continue reading Realities Of Living With Chronic Pain That Isn’t Talked About Enough
When you live with chronic pain, everything you do revolves around your pain levels because you can’t do anything without thinking about it. Chronic pain is a full-time job and shows up when we don’t want it to because it doesn’t care if it’s a holiday or your birthday. It is fun to celebrate your … Continue reading Why Birthdays Are Hard When You Live With Chronic Pain
Chronic pain affects everything you do, and people with chronic pain cannot do anything without thinking about their pain levels. I talk a lot about my chronic pain on my blog because it is important to educate others who do not live with chronic pain to raise awareness. My blog has tons of posts about … Continue reading Why I Don’t Always Talk About My Chronic Pain
When you are in pain, often people go to the doctor to get relief because no one wants to live in pain if there is a way to get out of it. Doctors often look for visible signs of pain, such as tears, and if you don't look like you are in pain, it can … Continue reading What Chronic Pain Patients Wish Their Doctors Understood About Pain
Disability affects relationships; sometimes it brings you closer to your friends, while other times, people pity your disability, and it drives you apart. As a disabled person, I don't have many real-life friends because I have always struggled to find friends who see me as a person, not my disability. I haven't had the best … Continue reading How To Be A Good Friend To Someone With Chronic Pain
Healthy people pray that their routine scans are going to be normal, but when you are in pain, normal scans can feel devastating. Doctors don't investigate normal imaging, and you remain in pain, but even though your doctor can see nothing wrong, that doesn't mean your pain is not real. I talk a lot about … Continue reading Thoughts You Have When You Live With Chronic Pain
When you live with chronic pain, it can often feel isolating because chronic pain is often invisible, and sometimes you don't feel supported. People without chronic pain often do not understand how it affects everything you do, because when you live with pain, you get good at faking being well and don't look like you … Continue reading How To Support Someone With Chronic Pain
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