#painblogs

[trans-cuchulainn]

it's very important that disabled people are allowed to make bad decisions actually. that we're allowed to do things which cause flare-ups. that we're allowed to take a risk and get it wrong. that not every single second of our day has to be about playing it safe and being well-behaved and staying within our limits

and on the days when we deal with the consequences of those mistakes and bad decisions we're still worthy of a) sympathy and b) pain relief. just as we are if our illness or disability is the result of our choices in the first place

[vastderp]

my rheumatologist had me stop ibuprofen completely, after eating it daily for over a decade to survive. instead, she put me on sulindac. no nsaids allowed while taking it, so until it kicks in, no pain relief. at all.

obviously this killed me deader than dog doo, but i’ve been crawling out of my grave for two weeks. and, my god, it kind of…works?

i just vacuumed and no one breathing down my neck for inspections. and then cleaned out the vacuum. i became the vacuum cleaner. put up pictures for the first time since 2012. fixed stuff.

my everything still hurts but the howling void of just constant misery has dimmed down to like, a single annoying neighbor telling me how to do something (wrong) while i do it.

also my acid reflux that had me choking on barf at night has disappeared completely. if this keeps up i might get to quit a med for a change.

[spockvarietyhour]

who wants to smash my skull in with a hammer, I think once we clear the debris it'll do wonders for this migraine

[an-ruraiocht]

fucked myself up mentally/emotionally and just got a huge spike in knee pain as if i needed confirmation that my neurological pain condition is connected to my broader nervous system and affected by Huge Fucking Waves Of Bad Vibes

[natequarter]

when life gives you pain, take it out on fictional characters

[lemeute]

@ my body what is it gonna. take. man. what is it gonna take to be Mostly Functioning For Like 4 Continuous Hours. what is causing your dramatically increased need to Lie Down. I am tryna work with you here. but also what if you just Stopped Doing This! what if you just calmed the fuck down!

[alorz]

pinched nerve is SO unfair and annoying because? Great. half my wrist/hand is numb and i can't feel anything. EXCEPT for when i move wrong and it feels like i'm being stabbed. that's my one little treat. otherwise no sensation. ??????????

[aromantisk-fagforening]

what a good day for a walk. alas

[dadbodbuck]

Oh no!!! I had no idea it was that bad!!! That really sucks dude. Much support

it's ok!!! no worries. i appreciate your words 💕

[bloomburnburial]

i will say the pain scale with the descriptions is life-changing; it’s just that I frequently forget to refer to it when assigning my pain a number. going around thinking, “why am I complaining about this 3-4 level pain when i used to average around 7 daily” and then looking at the scale and seeing, “ok, this is closer to 5-6 level, definitionally” works wonders to reorient your perspective. (also, 3-4 isn’t particularly fun to cope with on a regular basis either)

[trans-cuchulainn]

wish abled people would understand fluctuating disabilities more. i told my boss my knee was better today than friday and she's like "I'm glad it's slowly getting better" but it's not Getting Better, it's just having a good day (and tbh it's worse now than it was when I said that) and tomorrow it'll probably be unable to bear my weight again. like. stop thinking of these things as a straight line progression because they're not and I'm tired to having to explain every bad day like it's some bigass new problem when it's just. the nature of these things

[vastderp]

!!!

I DIDN’T NEED ANY PAIN MEDS TODAY!!!!

and i felt better yesterday too. encore, encore!

[gemsiiie]

sore throats can go jump off a fucking cliff and choke on its own blood

[thedorkdisorder]

Last Nerve

Any advise for alleviating nerve pain would be greatly appreciated. It's been a tough week. #nervepain #fibromyalgia #chronicpain #paindiary #personalblog #blogger #blog #fibroblog

I don’t know if trapping nerves often is something Fibro Sufferers have to deal with or if it’s completely unrelated and I am just unlucky, but I do trap a nerve in my shoulder a lot. It’s in my left shoulder at the back, under the shoulder blade. I don’t know how it’s happened, there was nothing wrong when I woke on Tuesday, but then throughout the day the pain started and then it just started.…

[natequarter]

one thing about constant low-level pain is that it won't ruin everything but it will make you utterly miserable and want to complain all the time

[lemeute]

my! wrists! are mad! at me!

and I am mad! back!!