Coping with chronic pain isn’t pretty — especially on the difficult days. It’s not just about the physical pain, but also about coping with the difficult emotions that come along with it. I often feel the emotional side of living with pain gets overlooked. But when pain is overwhelming, our…
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Pain is Frustrating ~ Finding Ways to Cope
I can’t count how many times I’ve sighed, ‘This is so frustrating,’ because my pain has got the better of me.
Pain can be a bit of a control freak. It decides what you can and can’t do. It dictates everything — from whether you can attend an exciting event to whether you can manage the most mundane of tasks.
It can be even harder when you live with more than one type of pain, or when chronic illness adds extra layers to the struggle. Just when one part of your body starts to calm down a little, somewhere else flares up. The frustration is very real.
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Useful Disability Aids That Make Life Easier at Home
One of the hardest parts of living with illness or pain is often accepting that you need some extra help. It can feel like admitting defeat – but it’s not admitting defeat at all. In reality, it’s far from that – it’s actually being sensible and doing what’s right for…
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Pain Interferes With Your Life & There’s No Magic Wand
Whether it is saying, no, you can’t go shopping or meet your friend for a coffee, pain often completely interferes with your life. And, unfortunately, there’s not much you can do about it. There is no magic wand to make it better. You need a lot of patience and you…
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Life With Scoliosis – A Complicated And Painful Back Story
Someone recently asked me for a bit of a back story. I knew they were looking for a short bio but I did giggle to myself for a little while. If they had wanted an actual back story, well, it certainly wouldn’t be short. It would have been a long…
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When My Pain Worsens for No Reason, it’s Frustrating
Living with pain is difficult. The pain can be so unpredictable – a good day (which wasn’t really a good day in the first place) can quickly turn into a bad day. Sometimes there’s a reason for it getting worse. Perhaps I’ve somehow not avoided a trigger, or I’ve not…
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Review of Huggaroo Neck and Shoulder Wrap ~ I Love it
I’ve written before about the effect of stress on pain. If I’m under stress for any reason and can’t control it, my pain normally gets worse but it’s not just my usuals pain. I often get tension headaches. Medication doesn’t tend to help me when I have those type of headaches, but I sometimes find that applying a heat pad to the back of my neck can help. Therefore I was excited when a company called Huggaroo got in touch and offered to send me a head, neck and shoulder wrap so I could write a review about it.
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Dear Chronic Pain – it’s Time to Break Up With You
It’s never easy to go your separate ways if you’ve been in a long-term relationship. When you think it’s time to break up, you can’t just send a text and say, “Hey, it’s over. Been nice knowing you.” Okay, maybe some people do, but that’s not right, is it?
I’m in a long term relationship with my pain and I think it’s time for us to break up. Breaking up is never easy, but breaking up with chronic pain is even harder because it just doesn’t take the hint no matter how blunt you are. You can swear, shout and scream at it and it just laughs in your face….
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Jokes About Disabled People Are Not Funny
I like to think I have a sense of humour. Most days I laugh about something. I even laugh at myself and my disability. But I would never laugh at or make fun of other people’s disabilities. But comedians, and even some well-known politicians, have cruelly poked fun and made…
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Doctors – the Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous
Doctors – we all need them at times. Good doctors are there to help, listen and support us. And thankfully, there are many good doctors in the world. There are doctors who are always prepared to go that extra mile for their patients. But unfortunately, not all doctors are good…