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How to deal with constant pain for years

Chronic Pain | Last Active: May 26 9:58pm | Replies (79)
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@coachrandy

I used fentanyl patches for many years and it helped better than anything I had used before than. I have been disabled for 29 years and have had chronic pain longer than that. I eventually was taken off it and started ablations on my neck and back. My advice is to get outside as much as possible and exercise if possible. It is not a great life but you have to try to go on. I know I get tired of people who have no pain telling me this, but I am living the walk everyday so I can say you have got to try to improve you life everyday. Best wishes.

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BeBold | @bebold | May 1 6:57am

Sadly with CRPS of both legs, walking outside is out except to car and back. Need to save my walking pain tolerance for thjngs like grocery stores, washing dishes, cleaning the cat box etc. People say that to me all the time, I've not been able to walk like that my whole life, except when I went inti remission for about 8 years and lived at the gym. I did an hour a day on the elliptical. My gym rat time was a nice time in my life.

Now I have a failing knee replacement afyer 15 years, and the other knee needs to be done - I don't have the energy to add more pain. Bilat shoulder surgeries leaves me out of the gym at all. I really am trying to do life as best I can hoping this fall didn't change things forever.

Thanks for reading and for suggestions. I know it was long. I wish I could walk. It seems where I live, retired people hike all day every day. I live in a beautiful place with mountains and waterfalls. 10 minutes to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Us people in pain need to find each other. I always loved to play cards, almost anything, and just doing that again would bring me pleasure. Thanks.

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