Living with chronic pain 38 Articles

by John S Willard Jr

This is my wife's story about Chronic Back Pain and how she gained relief from the never ending pain that was ruining her life. She went from Doctor to Doctor trying to find some relief from the pain in her lower back a...read more

by Jewel Dee

How pain can affect your mood As a child, I imagined my father to be a very grumpy, crotchety figure indeed. Dad was never truly happy, or so it seemed to my child-like imagination. He seemed to be forever complaining...read more

by Cj Casuto

I am held together with wires, pins, screws, sutures and maybe some super glue that doctors threw in for good measure. In addition to my heart condition, I have also had enough surgeries to allow my scars to map out a goo...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

I live with chronic pain and have done now for about 16 years, both my own pain and my husbands. We find that the best way of dealing with it is an acceptance of our limitations. We laugh about it because really if you tre...read more

by Tina Samuels

Chronic pain sufferers face many challenges in their lives. The inability to know what their energy and pain level will be from day to day is a frustrating part of their life that never goes away. However, there are ways t...read more

by Helen Sims

An Entry From My Diary 19.12.07 Sometimes I wonder what the point is. Yesterday, I woke up with pain in my hips again. Granted, I'm used to it being bad on some days, but this was ridiculous! It felt like I was be...read more

by Eva Prabhakar

Pain. Discomfort. Agony. Everybody has experienced this atleast once in life; be it emotional heartache such as that caused by the death of a loved one or temporary physical distress caused by breaking your bones. Do you r...read more

by Fibro Viv

Chronic pain causes severe, unrelenting fatigue that interferes with a person's daily activities. I personally experience chronic pain daily. The result is fatigue from trying to deal with the pain. I have difficulty co...read more

by Debbie Kerr

Pain Every cell within me vibrates, quaking to a beat of its own creation, jangling, rattling, pounding, sparking, throbbing, aching - Looking at me, you may not see those disruptions. You can not know how it feels ...read more

by Skylar Taylor

Chronic pain, two words that I wish I did not know the meaning of and two words that I hope no one has to learn. Let us start with a very accurate description of what chronic pain means. Chronic pain is pain that continue...read more

by Lauren Beyenhof

Chronic pain and chronic illness have the potential to severely damage a person's quality of life. I found the following story online and was very impressed by how well it metaphorically describes life with chronic illness...read more

by Elizabeth Wright

Several years ago, I was the victim of a pretty serious car accident, where a woman driving a dual cab pickup truck turned left, into my car, from the right lane, turning the front end of my Oldsmobile 88 into an accordian...read more

by Dawn Taylor

I bet you're saying "hyper-what?". It's called hyperesthesia. And here's the painful truth of it. Have you ever been out in the sun too long; and you come in to take a shower and the moment the water touches your charred s...read more

by Angel Sharum

Living with chronic pain is frustrating to say the least. I have fibromyalgia and suffer from daily chronic pain throughout most of my body along with a host of other symptoms. Learning to cope with this disease hasn't bee...read more

by Kimberlee Tanner

Chronic Pain is something that affects millions. It can make people who once were active in sports, arts, and other daily lifestyles almost foreign to the lives they once knew. Because of its' severity, this debilitating...read more

by Victor Flores

Wellness/Illness- Love There are 3 basic forces that make humans behave: 1. seek pleasure 2. avoid pain 3. inspiration There are 2 types of intelligence involved in healing: 1. Higher intelligence/mind - used t...read more

by Lise Gibeault

CHRONIC PAIN is my middle name,check my license,my O.H.I.P. card,you'll see it, in between of my first name and of my last name.Sorry,I'm kidding,I need to do this,all the time ,to be able to survive the monotony of pain;d...read more

by Kenneth Gregory Smith

Living. Loving. Learning. Laughing. These are not words that one would normally associate with chronic pain (defined as pain that lingers longer than six months and does not respond to regular medical treatment). But if on...read more

by Alana Young

Imagine what it would feel like to wake up every morning with a severe headache, so tired that you feel like you have not even been to sleep. Imagine having to depend on painkillers to make it through each day. Imagine wha...read more

by Sandie Vista

To live with chronic pain is rarely done. Most afflicted with chronic pain will at one time or another suffer from depression or emotional problems of some kind and also family issues and community issues as well as health...read more