Orville.Bullitt@f36.n135.z1.fidonet.org (Orville Bullitt) (03/01/91)
Index Number: 13771
[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference on Fidonet]
LP> I think this would be a great place for those of us who have
LP> chronic pain to share. Is there any one else who has chronic
LP> Pain? ---
Liv,
You will certainally get a lot of replies to the above.
I am in constant pain. On May 25, 1988, I broke all my left ribs in two
places, my 10th right rib, my left collar bone and my neck at C2.
Luckily, I did __N_O_T__ break the spinal cord at the C2 vertabra break.
I have constant pain from my rib breaks that is particularly bad when I lay
down to go to bed.
Later,
Orville
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Internet: Orville.Bullitt@f36.n135.z1.fidonet.orgDerek.Oldfather@p1.f62.n282.z1.fidonet.org (Derek Oldfather) (03/01/91)
Index Number: 13772
[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference on Fidonet]
LP> I think this would be a great place for those of us who have
LP> chronic pain to share. Is there any one else who has chronic Pain?
I am one. It's always worse though during these thaw/freeze cycles we are getting right now.
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Internet: Derek.Oldfather@p1.f62.n282.z1.fidonet.orgChris.Macgard@p0.f475.n10.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Macgard) (03/01/91)
Index Number: 13775
[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference on Fidonet]
Hiya Orville,
I am also in chronic pain, having survived two Evel Knevel stunts
and a couple of lifting injuries whilst working ambulance years ago. I
have come to think of my physical body as a weathervane. I have to pay
attention to what it tells me and make the neccessary change in focus
to deal with it. It is, I would guess, a lot like having kids.
Eventually you come to take the constant demands (pain) as a givern and
learn to roll with it. The only thing that really bothers me is having
my mobility restricted by pain in my feet (from a feet first landing on
the highway having vaulted over a car head first) that seems beyond my
allopathic soothings. And there is always the extra expense of carting
myself around to the doc time and again when things prove out of my
control and I cannot get ahead of the particular manifestation on my
own. I luckily found a doc I work with who respects my need to have
this bit of control and hase given me the encouragement and means to be
self-medicating without having to stay on a normal course of my NSAID.
I have thereby cut down my consumption from tid to prn...sometimes
going many days without (until my feet got the better of me after a job
change). I think it has to be better for my kidneys et al.
What do you do to cope with the pain? And, has it changed your sense
of self as well as the way you meet each day?
Take Care
Chris
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