Chronic Pain Support Group

I pray to God every day that he gives me the strength and courage
to get through every day living with chronic pain. I have a very
good pain management doctor, who has been helping me
control the pain with medications, steroid injections and I also
have a spinal cord stimulator, implanted by my pain management
doctor, for my sciatica nerve pain that I've had for over eight years
now. I've had the sciatica nerve pain since my back injury in
April of 1999 but did not get the spinal cord stimulator implant
until June of 2004. It helps a lot with my sciatica nerve pain!
I couldn't live without it! I also try to do some exercise every
day to keep my bones strong and to keep my immune system
strong as well. I take vitamins every day, too. I also try to
take one day at a time in dealing with chronic pain. It's not
easy to do that, but, I really do try my best. I have a very
strong family bond with my husband and my children and
my grandchildren and they keep me going every day of
my life!

Keep the faith!

I pray for the best for you . I do my best to deal with my pain some days are worse than others but I thought it would be nice to find other people to talk to and support one another as we deal with our pain I hope to meet many people on here so far this seem to be a wonderful group of people everyone has been so nice in welcomeing me and giving me the support I needed I hope to talk to you again soon

It helps to distract yourself. I surf the net, read, walk, but the #1 thing is my meds. I take them and when they wear off, I take them again. I get stupid sometimes and try to bite the bullet as in the days of old, and I find my tolerance for pain is lower. I have to remember to take my meds and stay on top of them. I have 2 blogs. I'm putting the finishing touches on a novel. Keep as busy as you can without wearing yourself out. I confess, sometimes I overdo it. The next day I pay in terms of pain. It's funny because I had a private little freak out about my pain today. It didn't make me feel better. Remaining calm and meditative seems to help me a lot. Good luck to you. I know how you feel. Do stay in touch and let me know how you are.

you are right it is best to stay distracted that way you are not just thinking of all the pain you are in and dwelling on it . I do stay on top of taking my pain meds but here lately that does not even seem to help. I am doing every thing that everybody else is saying they do for their pain but my pain just has not got any better I hope to continue to hear how other do maybe there will be someone out there that is doing something different that I can try thanks for all of your help

You just take it one day at a time.. I've gotten used to it and I've developed a schedule around my CP that seems to give me a piece of my life back. We've all gone thru the denial phase, then the feel sorry for ourselves get depressed phase. Then eventually you reach the acceptance phase which I have done. I'm greatful I found DS because it helped me thru the depressing deep dark sadness phase that I went thru when I finally realized how much pain I was in and would be in for awhile. Now I work everyday towards doing whatever I can to help the pain be reduced. If a therapy doesn't work for me then I move on. I think the biggest support I've done for myself is doing pool therapy. Yes it has reduced the pain slightly, but I feel like I'm (in a small way) continuing to remain active. I'm not laying in bed feeling sorry for myself like I used to. Helping others get thru this difficult time is another good therapy for me. Just know it's ok to be sad at times, and to get frustrated with people who don't understand what your going thru. Being able to move forward will be the biggest accomplishment.

~hugs