How To Make The Holidays Easier With Chronic Pain When you live with pain, often you want to do a lot of things with your friends, but live in a body that has limited energy and doesn’t want to do anything except sit on your couch and watch …

"I do love it when people come to me, and #holidays are celebrated at my house because it makes it easier to manage my #PainLevels and the challenges of my #disability in general.": buff.ly/HNMIzfG

by sarahlynn358
#ChronicPain #ChristmasTime #ChronicIllness

Brain Fog? Cognitive Impairment? Which Sounds More Serious? Do you experience cognitive impairment/brain fog? I am over the term brain fog. Let’s be honest here, it is cognitive impairment.

"In the five years I’ve had my conditions, I’ve been asked MANY times about my #PainLevels. About my mobility. I do not recall EVER being asked about fatigue or #CognitiveImpairment.": buff.ly/ewwhVRd

by @limberation.com
#disability #ChronicIllness #BrainFog

How to Survive the Holidays When Chronic Illness & Disability Cause Pain Insight from 18 people with chronic illness, chronic pain and disability. On what hurts them the most and how to survive the holidays.

"The #holidays bring along with them: Increased physical activity, shopping for gifts, sparkly lights, #Christmas carols on repeat, rich foods..I love all that, but it also means an increase in #PainLevels if left unmanaged.": buff.ly/vX0bdxK

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Psychosis, EMDR, and Pain Levels The other day I was walking Bruce and I had a big visual hallucination. It was like the world was suddenly zooming out. I was looking down the sidewalk, and things were getting further away. Like i…

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#mentalillness #invisibleillness #chronicpain #arthritis #RA #CRP #labwork #therapy #EMDR #selfwork #stigma #osteoarthritis #disability #PTSD #traumawork #somatic #painlevels #hallucinations #episode #psychosis #nightmares

February is the Month of Love….and Love Can Take Many Forms You would be forgiven for thinking this is a Valentine’s Day post given the title I’ve chosen. It is about love but with a twist.

“I loved to go to #restaurants. Those days are gone. I can manage 20 mins in a local cafe on a rare good day but any longer and my #PainLevels are unbearable”: buff.ly/T0pbGkO

#ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Disabled
by MyMedMusings

#NYJets fans deserve to win the lottery for their sheer suffering. #JetUp #NFL 🤪🏈🏈🏈😎👍🏾
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A next-gen pain drug shows promise, but chronic sufferers need more options A new painkiller nearing approval called suzetrigine may prove to be an opioid alternative. But for many with chronic pain, treatment must go beyond pills.

“You ask your patient to rate their pain from 0, no #pain, to 10, the worst pain they can imagine. That’s a very noisy metric..it depends on stress levels, sleep, mood, pain resilience & a litany of other factors”: https://buff.ly/3Y3Mwq6 via @sciencenews.bsky.social #ChronicPain #PainLevels

"The #holidays bring along with them: Increased physical activity, shopping for gifts, sparkly lights, #Christmas carols on repeat, rich foods..I love all that, but it also means an increase in #PainLevels if left unmanaged": buff.ly/3mcZwov #ChronicPain #MondayBlogs

What pain level are you? (1) Vermeer - I feel a twinge now and then (2) Da Vinci - I can grin and bear it (3) Whistler - I just want to sit here (4) Rembrandt - I've been better (5) Durer - Yes I'm in pain. I wouldn't be here otherwise (6) Van Gogh - Can't talk (7) Picasso - Something is very very wrong with me (8) Courel- Morphine!! (9) Munch - Arghhhhhh! (10) Dali - Not even human any more!

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