I agree with sensitive. Hot baths work wonders. You are not whining you are in pain. All of us here understand, I promise. Hugs. Lora

It's not the pain so much as feeling helpless to do anthing about it

"whine" anytime, sweetie. We have all been there. Baths don't seem to do it for me, so I ask, "What, what are you trying to tell me?" I get so distracted with that it takes my focus off the stabbing for awhile.

when I am having problems I like to hide in the bathroom tub. It works for me sometimesI can cry in there and nobody knows (its me time). I like coffee-this may not be good for me but in a way it calms me, when my legs are killing me from spasms I usually rub them- Ibuprophin is the only thing I am allowed to take right now.

O, by the way you are not whining. You can talk to me anytime Hugs

lol I always hide in the tub and cry so my hubby cannot hear. baths sometimes help depends on my pain level if it is around a 5-6 it helps 7-8 nadda. Im at a 7 today even with my neurontin. I like to go to the library and get "bath books" is what i call them so that i can take my mind off the pain while im in the tub. last night i was in there for an hour lol. my hubby doesnt get it and he wont go to the pain dr with me this afternoon. his only day he gets to hang out with the guys. He has never gone but sees that since he is a paramedic he should know when im "really" in pain. *sigh* i just dont know. Are any of you guys on meds where you forget things? Im finding i have to write anything down anymore.

when the pain gets so bad i cant handle it i go to the er only been there once but that shot did help, if you think you can do without do, waiting really sucks when you are in pain,
try a focus your pain somewhere else, think of something else or sleep, i am not really good at this i am such a wuss when i comes to pain.
hope you are feeling better soon
becky

hey it's not whining. that's what we are here for, to hear you out and try to help you!

Whine? Go right ahead, I get sick of hearing me say my leg hurts. The colder my stump gets the worse my pain, I try to warm it that helps a little. When I can't handle it i take a pain pill,I'm so afraid of getting addicted to them that I don't use them very often. If I had no pain I would think something was wrong. I guess we could all whine together since we all understand. Debi

im afraid of getting addicted to my pain pills to. but i dont crave them i fear the pain so before the dr prescribed me like 180 the other day i would count and have to really rate my pain of is it so badi need this. im also a real baby when it comes to pain. My hubby is a paramedic but i know more about the er than i think he does lol. i have gone 5 times in 6 months for pain. and i called an ambulance last friday night because the dr gave me a fentanyl patch for the bad pain i was talking about earlier. i turned out to be allergic to it. was a scary time. hubby wasnt home, i couldnt breathe and my heart was racing, itchy like invisible chicken pox was crazy. yet i was calm the whole time lol. tonight is bad it hurts and ive tried to sleep it isnt happening so took my pain pill and put on a new lidocain patch and a just going to try to read a book

I get tired of my own "whining" sometimes, but I think we're all entitled to a little bit of a pity party now and then.

Thinking of others having it worse doesn't help. That just makes me feel more sad.

So, let's have our pity parties and not be too hard on ourselves for that.

When nothing is helping my pain, and I have trouble sleeping, I take a bit of an anti anxiety med. It knocks me out for a while, pain or no pain, so at least I sleep.

I have had trouble getting myself to take the drugs I'm prescribed. It's really hard to be on all these meds, but I'm told it's not really that many that I'm on.