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Does anyone recommend a portable, rechargable TENS unit for pain?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Jul 2, 2023 | Replies (102)Comment receiving replies
@jesfactsmon Thanks so much for your kind words. I do have people in my life (not many because I isolate myself due to agoraphobia) who believe I should not need pain medicine or benzo's, I am just weak. It is nice to have someone not judge you but try to walk in your shoes. I do sit on ice packs at almost all times as well, on constant rotations from the freezer. I really am trying to heal myself, it just isn't happening yet.
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Jen, you said it so well! Absolutely there are many people who feel that way. This opiophobia out there now is causing some sub-standard care! We know that people who have legit pain do not get hight from these drugs. They only help us not jump! They don't take away the pain. I'm on morphine but my family doesn't know b/c some are so opinionated and judgmental and I don't want my grandkids withheld from me. I bet most if not all of us has been subject to other's harsh and ignorant opinions and judgments. Shame. Maybe someday they can understand. That's the eternal optomist in me talking. I wish! Try to behave you guys...LOL! Sunnyflower @jesfactsmon
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Sounds like the people in your life that you are referring to need to wake up. It must be that they do not have an ability to understand what living with the dire circumstance that is chronic pain is like. I do not have chronic pain. But I live with someone who does. I know that she has never in our 42 years been the type to over exaggerate her problems. If anything she is pretty stoic and I often do forget because I can be sitting next to her for 2 hours watching TV and she seems normal outwardly. But when I ask her to describe what her pain is like for her various conditions, it can sometimes be that she has been sitting there with a pain level of 8 during that time. It's a real eye opener. And yet I still do forget. Regularly. A person not in pain has a hard time truly understanding what life is like for a chronic pain sufferer.
I do try to keep in mind what she is going through and I am very solicitous of her. But to really understand it, I believe I'd have to walk in her shoes. Literally. That is why I would truly love to live through one day of her worst pain days. Then maybe I could relate more and maybe not forget so often. Hank