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Chronic Pain members - Welcome, please introduce yourself

Chronic Pain | Last Active: Mar 16 11:12am | Replies (7172)

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@loltinkerbell

Hi everyone, my name is Jennifer. I graduated from the Jacksonville Mayo Clinic's Pain Rehabilitation 3 week program. I'm living my C life. I've been able to handle everything happening throughout my body as it happens. Believe me that every day I work this program in my struggle with nonprogressive as well as progressive lables. Too many lables. My pain levels fluctuate between a 4 and a 8. I also deal with CSS. Due to the CSS, my treatment of my "lables" has changed drastically. I used MRT for years as well as chiropractic manipulation. Tried pain management techniques for a couple of years to no lasting relief. I'm aware that I will need surgery for my neck, lumbar and sacral iliac joints eventually. My hometown PCP feels that I should have it sooner rather than later as I'm now in my 50's and that my body will recover better now than if I wait until I'm in my 60's. I'm trying so hard to work this PRC life but this also looms in my conscious.

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Living with chronic never ending pain is something that can't be explained in words to someone else, especially when you've been dealing with it over a long period of time.
It takes everything out of you some days, and you just want everything to stop. However, you wake up in the morning, and you go about your daily routine, and it's the same thing all over again, day after day, week after week, month after month.
Your family tries to empathize, but they can't understand what pain does to you physically, emotionally, and mentally.