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Post by Pahz on Nov 26, 2010 15:27:27 GMT -8
"Play through the pain!"
"Pain is just weakness leaving the body!"
Spoken by a former athlete.
Yeah, because you scraping your elbow/knee/ass on the ground is exactly the same as all my nerves pulsating with agonizing darts of electricity just because my heart is beating.
You twisting your ankle or even breaking your nose is exactly the same as me having my body rebel against itself and snap all the pain receptors like two hillbillies playing "Dueling Banjos" on a front porch.
Um, I used to fancy myself as a writer. (I still like words)
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Post by juniper on Nov 26, 2010 15:38:10 GMT -8
"If I can do it, you can" Yes, I know you have pain issues, too, but they aren't the same ones, are they?
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Post by Nico on Nov 26, 2010 20:15:38 GMT -8
kmcm, I am all about saying "that sucks". I think it's basically all anyone wants to hear when they're telling you about something that sucks.
I find it annoying when people in the medical field can't pronounce "fibromyalgia". It's not "fibro-miglia" or "fibro-malasia".
One of the phrases that I thought would make me stabby was one that my doctor kept chanting at me: "depression hurts!" She wanted to put me on Cymbalta, and I didn't want to go on it, because I knew my pain wasn't due to depression. I knew this because my symptoms started at a time in my life when I was active, healthy and happy.
It pisses me of that some doctors assume that all chronic pain is because of depression. It pisses me off that they even assume that you are depressed in the first place, even when you're not showing classic depression symptoms.
Even if you do become depressed, after years of chronic pain, and doctors not helping you, and people treating you like you're faking it - I mean, you'd have to be crazy to not go a little crazy at that point - it's still depression for a reason. Fix the reason, dammit. At least try. Anyway, I should quit ranting.
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Post by morciel on Nov 28, 2010 7:16:19 GMT -8
juniper, you're awesome. yes i get that all the time. "if you'd relax and have more self-confidence then you won't stutter" yeah because you had a hard time saying a word you probably can't spell let alone define means that you are a speech therapist and know that it's all in my head and not a physical problem. sometimes i wish i could hit people and not get like arrested or something.
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Post by kmcm on Nov 30, 2010 21:28:15 GMT -8
One of the phrases that I thought would make me stabby was one that my doctor kept chanting at me: "depression hurts!" She wanted to put me on Cymbalta, and I didn't want to go on it, because I knew my pain wasn't due to depression. I knew this because my symptoms started at a time in my life when I was active, healthy and happy.
Depression CAN cause physical pain, even horrid nasty chronic pain if it's not dealt with. However, Horrid nasty chronic pain can[glow=red,2,300]cause[/glow]depression. I honestly think that every single person who has issues with pain is also, to some degree, depressed. There are some who give in to it and let it effect their lives, and there are others who choose to deal with it in their own way and not let it effect them very often. I know that MANY of us choose to deal with the depression and the pain with humor, life is so much easier if you can laugh at it, and yourself. Even if part of you really, really, REALLY wants to cut off a body part, smack around a loved one, or just curl up in a little hole and hide.
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Post by morciel on Nov 30, 2010 22:02:33 GMT -8
slight correction...some of it makes us want to cut the body part, then smack around a loved one with the aforementioned body part. ugh.
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Post by Nico on Nov 30, 2010 22:46:12 GMT -8
Oh, I don't disagree with you at all, kmcm - what I didn't like what my doctor trying to shove me into a box that I knew I didn't belong in. I also felt she was trying to put me on a fairly new medication based on what the drug company sales reps were pushing.
By the way, I did FINALLY go on it. It did nothing for my pain, or my mood - and when I eventually tried to go off it, the withdrawal was pretty brutal. Not that I'm trying to discourage anyone from trying it, it just wasn't right for me, which is what I was trying to tell my doctor in the first place.
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Post by juniper on Dec 1, 2010 0:10:02 GMT -8
"You're too young"
For what? Pain? Tell that to my knees.
For surgery? You do this for professional athletes all the time. Because I'm only semi-active and don't live by this, I should suffer?
Thanks. My body feels twice my age, I'm not too young at all.
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Post by kmcm on Dec 1, 2010 0:15:59 GMT -8
Juniper, i get that ALL the time. I'm SORRY i look 25 and walk full time with a cane. I was too young at 18 to have normal life taken away from me, so i'm sorry i'm now too young to hurt....my response to that is a resounding "Fuck you, live my life for 20 minutes" You sure won't FEEL young.
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Post by morciel on Dec 2, 2010 5:00:39 GMT -8
i agree full-heartened with you, that you also "don't look disabled" what do i have to have a cane or a wheelchair to be disabled? why dont i get a bat with a handicapped sticker on it and bop you with it a few times and then you'll see i'm disabled right? ugh...sorry i'm so violent now lol
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Post by zorro on Mar 8, 2011 18:44:26 GMT -8
I can relate to almost everything posted above!!!
"God wouldn't give you this if He didn't know you could handle it."
Yeah? Well, to paraphrase Mother Theresa, i wish God didn't trust me quite so much, then!
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Post by msk on Mar 20, 2011 9:46:58 GMT -8
"Well, if you'd just lose some weight, you'd feel better."
The fuck? Let me explain something to you, oh Guru of The Way Of Jenny Craig. I didn't put on massive amounts of weight until I started having serious chronic pain. Before that, I was a relatively normal weight. Oh sure, I could have stood to lose about 15-20 pounds, but I was active, I went hiking, I walked everywhere, I was on my feet more often than not.
Not so much now. I'm working to change that, but frankly, my body has to not hurt ALL THE GODDAMN TIME first.
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Post by zorro on Mar 29, 2011 17:41:18 GMT -8
Yeah! If that was true, I'd be like flying around with a sword or something. If that were true, I wouldn't even need the fucking sword, I'd be so powerful.
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Post by geminilee on Apr 10, 2011 11:37:18 GMT -8
"You don't look disabled." Well, I am sorry my disability did not deform me, so that it is obvious to you.
Form doctors occasionally: "You should take less pain pills." The last time one said that, I told them I should be in less pain.
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Post by kmcm on Apr 26, 2011 14:00:09 GMT -8
Fuck my life. I am SO sick of hearing people say that. I know it's a goddamned internet meme FML. But really? Fuck your life? I have to get out of bed everyday, even though it hurts to breathe sometimes.
I'm SO done with "Fuck my life" especially from kids who have no idea what they are even talking about.
Dammit. Fuck. Dammit. I feel better now. Gawd, i love this board.
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