Chronic Pain Support Group

Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that is a direct result of injury or trauma. This support group is dedicated to those suffering from chronic pain. Discuss treatments that have worked for you, find advice for your specific experience, and find support. You're not...

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russ54 07/14/2007

I've been in pain since the fifth grade, darn funny how I can remember the fifth grade and not how old I was in the fifth grade. Well hail I'm 54 years old now. My memory is sometime about a long as my ... o.k. I'm a male I checked several times oh God when I think about being a kid, everyone telling me the pain was all in my head, of just the meanness working out of me... Gee was I a mean kid?? Don't make any difference, If I looked at my grandmother wrong, she'd beat the hail out of me... hence the long road to my many problems in life, well till I was 16 any way... stopped the woman from beating my sorry little a.... I tried to be respectful and polite with her, turned into a pissin contest I won that time, Lost the war tho... verbal abuse never stopped. god that woman hated my a... counldn't stand a male she couldn't control. i believe my abusive childhood has a direct bearing on the chronic pain I suffer... I'm just so dam tire of the constant nagging pain, 24 hours a day eight days a week... lately it's been taking away my ablity to tinker and do the things I really enjoy. I got no one, soulmate that is wife or girlfriend, heck who'd have me, ex kicked my disabled of butt to the curb after 25 years of marriage cause she got tired of my disablity...SHE GOT TIRED OF IT??? can't say I blame her... how do ya file for divorce of chronic pain and fibromyalgia, hearing loss, overweight, DDD, compacted disc, and ugly? If ya know let me know, how much it cost... don't care... I've already paid out the ..... maybe I'm in the wrong room, so any way all you fellows out there with this craptonite, and women too I share the pain of it all with you. Russ

deleted_user 07/14/2007

Hey Russ, Sorry sorry sorry. Not enough sorries and I know they don't take away the pain and frustration. But I do hope you stick around, make friends, find comfort and all of that. It is here... true friends and everything.

You've got a good pain specialist and all that already?

You are NOT in the wrong room... here is the place to get it out, seek advice and friends and comfort.

Wish I had to more to offer, but at the moment not at my best, either!

You ARE in the right place.

Love.

deleted_user 07/14/2007

Hi i know all too well how you feel i too have lived with chronic pain for over 20+ year,s,I,m still with my man (been married 22 year,s this sept been together 25years)My husband get,s fed up when i,m in pain but lucky for me hey? He,s a good man but like,s to drink and trie,s to start argument,s when he,s half cut i won,t bite so he bugger,s off to bed,Now my beloved son has started verbal crap,even though i,m feeling crap and my pain is off the scale, i will not allow them to take me any futher than i already am,I cannot deny i no longer see light in this tunnel we,re supposed to be in,Maria

deleted_user 07/14/2007

No darlin your not in the wrong room ,,most of us have been there ,,hell some of us are still there,,,,hang out with us a while,,i'm sure you'll make a trove of friends here ,,these folks are so cool....

deleted_user 07/14/2007

shut up you whinging male, is about all the sympathy i get around here (home that is).
obviously you need some sort life. maybe you should start up a c.p. singles date line or something then the couples could both whinge to each other without it being a problem.
as i'm married to a cp sufferer as well as being one our relationship has a lot of understanding towards one another.

deleted_user 07/14/2007

now i just got thru tellin him how great we all are here DT,,,whats up,,,??seems to me russ is startin to get a life,,,by coming here and reachin out,,,,oh and Russ,,,about that pissin contest you say you always ended up in with your wife,,well now double trouble can tell you all about pissin contests, his wife is always tellin him he pisses in the wind ain't that right DT?

deleted_user 07/15/2007

Russ,

Right now Pink and I are on vacation till Friday. I have some insights and suggestions for you. Hang in there this is a great group and a wonderful bunch of people.

Ouch

PETERS 07/15/2007

HAY RUSS, i'm from NYC now IM LIVEN IN S. CAL everyone had some kind of bad past time- - I was always beatem with a belt ( cat n nine tail) because I always was a bad ass! but today is another pain STORY DR. did not find out what was wrong with me the first time till 12months later on! i'm 51 my whole world came crumbling down then & now i'm almost 100 yrs old! so find something too keep you busey, hobby -please hang in their good luck!

ZAZAS 07/15/2007

You found the right room all right. Story sound familar in parts. Emotional, sexual, physical and verbal abuse are very much a part of some cp'ers past and present. God Bless you, and being a grandmother myself, I think she dishonors the name.

ZAZAS 07/15/2007

Ya'll look at the beautiful green in DJ50's picture. Now that is Alabama. Darn, just got back and now she has me home sick all over. (lol)

deleted_user 07/15/2007

thats right dj50. sounds like my foot went into my big mouth before. i read what i wrote last time, i sound terrible. sorry about that i wasn't trying to imply anything on anything. i should of said some one should start a c.p dating service. you'd all gewtt on no problem, as we all got somethiong in common.

ragingfog 07/16/2007

Wow you really have alot of anger. I did at one time but I divorced it.LOL Fibro's is a real pain, I hate it. I was told it was all in my head and sent to see a shrink!! I thought I was really really losing it, if it's all in my head why do I feel all this pain? Oh well, could be worse. (?) Hope you have a great day. Hugs FibroFog

deleted_user 07/16/2007

oh i can atest to that ragin,,the last rhuematologist i went to told me there was no such thing as fibro and that what i had was myalgia rhumatica,,,basically it turns out to be the same pain,,,ya can't move very well every thing hurts even your skin and your tired as hell especialy durin a flare

deleted_user 07/20/2007

You're in exactly the right place Russ.
I'm sorry for your pain, I share the frustration of it.
We're here for you. I'm so glad this site was given to me, it has been a life saver.
People here understand it all.
I hope you come back.
::huggz::

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