The "Damn, I hurt!" Thread

[Guest]

Ever heard things like these?

"Nobody likes a whiner."
"Suck it up and get on with it."
"So you hurt--we all hurt!"
"You don't look like anything's wrong with you."

So, most times we just swallow the pain and soldier on.

But there oughta be a thread where those of us living with chronic pain can come and scream, blow off some steam, bitch, whine, kvetch, and just maybe learn something that will help.

So bring me your tired, your poor; your huddled backaches yearning to breathe free; your arthritis and carbuncles and neuropathies; your fibromylagia and rheumatism and migraines; your--

Well, you get the idea.

Let it all hang out, folks, and remember--judge not, lest ye face a recall election.

 

[SeaCat]

Hey Gnome,

I know what you're saying. I have heard it myself more than once.

Bi-Lateral Sciatica.
Bone Spur in the side of my foot.
Migraines due to neck injuries.

I'm used to it now and I just keep going. I refuse to allow the pain to limit what I do.

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

40% compensable VA disability from arthritic hips and spondylosis of the lower spine. My matress cost $3500 just so I could get a full night's sleep when fortified by both Tylenol and Alleve. "And, on a scale of 1-10, how bad would you say your pain is today?" Let me break a chair over her head and I'll show her how bad my pain is today!

Yeah, whine to the max, guys, we deserve it!

 

[TheeGoatPig]

It's not every day, but my knees have always been weak. After just moments of being on the ground they hurt like hell.

I also have an arthritic left big toe, but it just clicks right now. No pain most days. In a few years though I see that changing for the worse.

 

[Guest]

In my case, peripheral neuropathy (nerve damage) caused by medication. Numb feet that burn like fire, aching legs, lots of weakess.

And fibromylagia; during flares, like the worst case of flu you ever had without nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or fever--everything hurts and I'm exhausted.

(whine, whine)

 

[impressive]

Five years ago, I would've lived in this thread.

 

[jomar]

I am blessed with chronic but relatively minor stuff.

Healing/soothing thoughts to all with chronic health/pain problems.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Five years ago, I would've lived in this thread.

Me too, but thank God, some things got better. Now it's just a twitch here and there every now and then.

 

[DesertPirate]

Knee operations: (before the "scope" they removed cartilage) 72 L, 74 L, 75 R, clean up on R 79.
Broken ankle R 70, 73
Broken wrist 73
Neck - C5, 6, 7 fused 98 disk at C4-C5 repaired 02

Tore ACL Left knee in 91, might get it fixed some day.
My knees, back and neck hate winter

wonder where the arthritis came from?

 

[LadyCibelle]

Been diagnosed with Fybro 3 months ago.
Suffered from crippling migraines all my life.
Sciatica acting up.
Now the doctor just told me that I have arthritis in my back and hips. And to top it all off...well my liver function is abnormal, my kidneys are hulla-hooping with my electrolytes and my legs and feet have started swelling (they now look like overstuffed sausage) thanks to fluid retention, so there's a risk that I might drown in my sleep (doctor explained that my lungs and heart were bathing in too much fluid, whatever that means.)

So anyway, if I'm cranky and a bitch....it's all the health's fault.
If I'm happy and sweet....well then think that the meds are doing their job and take advantage of it.

 

[_Lynn_]

Been diagnosed with Fybro 3 months ago.
Suffered from crippling migraines all my life.
Sciatica acting up.
Now the doctor just told me that I have arthritis in my back and hips. And to top it all off...well my liver function is abnormal, my kidneys are hulla-hooping with my electrolytes and my legs and feet have started swelling (they now look like overstuffed sausage) thanks to fluid retention, so there's a risk that I might drown in my sleep (doctor explained that my lungs and heart were bathing in too much fluid, whatever that means.)

So anyway, if I'm cranky and a bitch....it's all the health's fault.
If I'm happy and sweet....well then think that the meds are doing their job and take advantage of it.

Gentle Hugs Lady C.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Gentle Hugs Lady C.

Very gentle.

 

[DesertPirate]

Been diagnosed with Fybro 3 months ago.
Suffered from crippling migraines all my life.
Sciatica acting up.
Now the doctor just told me that I have arthritis in my back and hips. And to top it all off...well my liver function is abnormal, my kidneys are hulla-hooping with my electrolytes and my legs and feet have started swelling (they now look like overstuffed sausage) thanks to fluid retention, so there's a risk that I might drown in my sleep (doctor explained that my lungs and heart were bathing in too much fluid, whatever that means.)

So anyway, if I'm cranky and a bitch....it's all the health's fault.
If I'm happy and sweet....well then think that the meds are doing their job and take advantage of it.

x 12

 

[slyc_willie]

Hmmmm

Perspective.

 

[TxRad]

As a good friend of mine around here often says, Getting old ain't for sissies.

All those dumb and stupid things that were so much fun when I was young are now coming back to haunt me. Between the arthritis in the hands, the same plus bone spurs in the feet, rebuilt knees thanks to the USMC, and shoulder pain from torn ligaments and muscles, I live on Aleve & ibuprofen.

But then the alternative sucks even more so I'll live with it.

 

[Just-Legal]

Chronic migranes. And the fiance has Fibro also. I htink we should form a Lit "Living with Fibromyalgia" group...

 

[christabelll]

Chronic Migraine
Chronic Head Ache
Screaming nerve pain in arms
A return of severe Infection called Mastoiditis...
and other things too numerous to mention
Hugs to you all

 

[Vermilion]

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome here. Coming up to the 8 year mark and I'm only 24.
Am feeling rather worse than usual right now because I just had an MLD treatment but, as I said in the blurt thread, at least that means it's doing something.

Might be worth considering for you, LadyCibelle - it's moved so much fluid off me that the fiance exclaimed in surprise when I got home at how slim my face looked.
PM me if you want info

x
V

 

[Daniellekitten]

Fybro for six years now, had three crushed disks that ended up bone on bone and then had the surgery to fuse them. Three weeks after that I fell down a flight of stairs. Now there is one spot on my back that I can press and my legs go instantly numb and I fall down. Nerve damage in one leg keeps me up with shooting pain. I have a bad heart and suddenly my eye sight is beginning to fail. I can still see to write though even though I now have to let my sister drive me everywhere...

I love it when they ask that stupid question. ON a scale of one to ten, where's your pain? Fifteen woman, okay?!

I'll be 34 this month and I feel like I'm ninty most days. It sucks.

 

[Boota]

No one would ever know to look at me and to see how I live, but I've been in pretty much constant pain since the mid-90's. After working at a factory between 1999 and 2003 it's gotten worse. Back pain, shoulder pain, bone spurs in my feet, residual pain from a "nearly" broken neck from weight lifting. (After that one I had a headache for five straight years.) During cold weather I get flare ups from old fighting injuries, bullet and stab wounds, a knee that is temperamental. It's always something.

The thing is, I'm so used to feeling this way that I don't notice it most of the time unless I really take stock of how I feel. I have good days on occasion and those are when it surprises me that I actually feel good. I have a high pain threshhold, but on top of that I have things to do. I won't let anything stop me from doing what I want.

 

[Just-Legal]

The thing is, I'm so used to feeling this way that I don't notice it most of the time unless I really take stock of how I feel. I have good days on occasion and those are when it surprises me that I actually feel good. I have a high pain threshhold, but on top of that I have things to do. I won't let anything stop me from doing what I want.

The fiance is like that, he said because the pain is constant he's learnt to block it, its only on severely bad days he notices it again.

I'm learning to live with the constant headache, what's pissing me off right now is that whenever my parents ask for an update, my sister immediately starts acting up. You wouldn't believe she's 22!

 

[Daniellekitten]

Been diagnosed with Fybro 3 months ago.
Suffered from crippling migraines all my life.
Sciatica acting up.
Now the doctor just told me that I have arthritis in my back and hips. And to top it all off...well my liver function is abnormal, my kidneys are hulla-hooping with my electrolytes and my legs and feet have started swelling (they now look like overstuffed sausage) thanks to fluid retention, so there's a risk that I might drown in my sleep (doctor explained that my lungs and heart were bathing in too much fluid, whatever that means.)

So anyway, if I'm cranky and a bitch....it's all the health's fault.
If I'm happy and sweet....well then think that the meds are doing their job and take advantage of it.

I'm just so glad they finally got you diagnosed. It's terrible, feeling the pain of fibro and not knowing why you have the pain.

 

[Just-Legal]

I'm just so glad they finally got you diagnosed. It's terrible, feeling the pain of fibro and not knowing why you have the pain.

Amen, took the fiance 7 years to get diagnosed.

 

[Daniellekitten]

Amen, took the fiance 7 years to get diagnosed.

I had a wonderful doctor but I was also lucky enough to have a sister with fibro and she told me to talk to the doctor about it. Kat and I go through a bunch of the same things, both missing gall bladders, both have chronic kidney stones, both with fibro. I had a dog that I had to have put to sleep because she had a cancer starting in her right front leg. A month later, my sister's dog had to be put down for the exact same thing. It's a bit spooky.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I never realized how much pain the AH was in

and to all.