pain

[cookiepuss]

I'm speaking physical pain. how do you handle it? do you fall apart? do you go about your business trying to ignore it? what is your coping method?

I think I slept in a bad position last night. my neck and upper back are killing me. quite uncomfortable. 4 hospital strength tylenol later and yeah it still hurts. (n) goona have to stop by the gym and hit the steam room. don't know what else I can do, since i can't afford my chiropractor right now.


errrrr. someone crack me bones!:eek:

[Lyman Zerga]

im still getting my feet filled up with water
sometimes i cant move my toes anymore
looks funny but feels shit

[monkey]

i handle pain extremely well, but it's after years of training through it. i dont suggest it, i believe internalizing pain just brings on other problems. anyway, get some of those icy-hot patches. they help those neck muscle aches and it feels nice to have that mentholy cooling shit on your neck on a hot day.

[cosmo105]

if it's muscle pain, i have steger rub this great essential oil balm on my back to work out the kink (because i sleep like a wild animal, my mom used to tell me she'd find me on the floor wrapped up in my sheets sprawled like a dead monkey or something). once or twice that's been so bad that i've had to call in sick to work. a heating pad helps, but pain pills only make me not care about it and the only thing that helps is massage.

if i've torn or overworked something, i'll limp along or whatever and go about my day. i've fractured and twisted and broken both ankles so many times that i'm used to them being swollen and painful, and a congenital hip dysplasia or something runs in my family so i'm used to one of them popping out of its socket...

when i got my wisdom teef removed, i gave in and took ibuprofen and that was it. i hated the way vicodin made me feel. so i just suffered through the pain and watched a lot of tv. i tried not to complain too much.

if it's pms, though (like it is right now), i get stabby.

[The Notorious LOL]

I have had pretty bad back pain as long as I can remember. Even in childhood. Sometimes it can be excricuating. Ive been checked for pinched nerves and stuff...whatever, no real physical cause. I suspect its a manifestation of stress.


Nontheless I have pretty much just learned to live with it. My dad has chronic back pain and I am accepting of the fact that I will most likely have to deal with the same someday.

[Waus]

Heroin.

[monkey]

^well if you're gonna go there... medicinal marijuana has been to known to help make the pain go away.

[g-mile7]

^well if you're gonna go there... medicinal marijuana has been to known to help make the pain go away.


I'd hook you up with such bomb it make your teeth smile.....come down south with me sometime I got cousin who are heavy in the game, only postive that comes from this is free medical boombastic....

[monkey]

gmile.. dont be silly, delete that post.

[beastiegirrl101]

I'd hook you up with such bomb it make your teeth smile.....come down south with me sometime I got cousin who are heavy in the game, only postive that comes from this is free boombastic....

you're not soliciting on the internets are you?

[g-mile7]

I don't sale. My cousins however well......

[monkey]

hahahaha. i guess everyone knows someone.

[g-mile7]

gmile.. dont be silly, delete that post.


:( fine then..reading it though I never do say Mary Jane by name, I mean I could have been talkin bout Jello, you know I got a cousin right be slinging that junk like Dennis yo.

[monkey]

hahahahahahahaa, :D

[enree erzweglle]

I think I have a reasonable tolerance for 99% of the pain that I feel. Mostly, any persistent pain that I do feel is in the noise category: I might be aware, sometimes acutely aware, of a pain, but it's just that and it doesn't get in the way. I've broken fingers in the middle of long training runs/races and splinted them and finished the race or the run.

The exception to what I can handle: the blasts associated with trigeminal neuralgia. The TN usually floors me hard and literally. I've got that under control since I know exactly what the trigger is--it comes only when the dentist drills around the roots of my molars. It's excellent incentive to maintain healthy teeth/gums.

Now that I'm older, I've learned to, when I can, avoid pain/injury by being more cautious, knowing my limitations. For example, no way could I do an ultra marathon today and not suffer long-term from that. I am certain of that so I just spectate. I do stay way ahead of the curve wrt diet, exercise, and overall health/lifestyle otherwise. A great side effect of that is that I don't have to take prescription drugs and I'm generally healthy, pain free.

[Pres Zount]

I'm pretty much impervious to most types of pain

[zorra_chiflada]

I'm pretty much impervious to most types of pain
^i can vouch for this. i think if you experience a lot of physical pain in your life, whether it be illness or whatever, you don't notice it anymore.

[Sarky Devotchka]

I handle pain like a champ. when I broke my foot, I slept through the night before going to the hospital...granted, I'd had maybe 4 beers, but I certainly wasn't drunk. I did puke in the morning though (not from the beer, from the pain) when I hopped on the good foot to go to the bathroom. I didn't cry though...I just said, "uh, cort, my foot hurts pretty fucking bad, I think I need to go the emergency room". I never cried until I was in the hospital a week later for surgery on it and the nurse was putting in the IV. and I thought, "holy shit, they're going to put me to sleep and cut my foot open!" then came the waterworks.

I think I learned to tough it out from my mom, who'd yell "don't baby it!" at me if I was limping or something after scraping my knee or twisting my ankle when I was a kid. I've also witnessed her falling off her bike into gravel so hard that rocks got imbedded in her leg. when we got home, she sat on the edge of the tub and washed out the wound with soap and water while plucking rocks and pebbles out with tweezers. blecccchh! she still has a scar from that.

[hitmonlee]

painkillers.
sit around doing nothing
get people to fetch things for me

[alexandra]

no problem, i'm a machocist.

[enree erzweglle]

i think if you experience a lot of physical pain in your life, whether it be illness or whatever, you don't notice it anymore.I agree with that. And also I think you learn to tolerate pain better after you weigh the alternatives. You weigh the alternatives of having to take pain medication (possibly addictive medication) or the side effects of that medicine against dealing with a particular even recurring pain and you make a choice. If you do that enough times, you find coping mechanisms and you learn how to put the pain away.

I'm not talking about debilitating pain--but the more common sorts of aches and pains that are tempting to just pop some pain relief to get over. Those things, I try to ignore because I don't like the alternative (medicines, especially prescription drugs).