Chronic Pain & Lifestyle Blog
Knowing how to support someone with chronic pain can be really difficult. It’s hard to know how to help when it’s something you’ve never experienced or find difficult to understand. Chronic pain is a lot more than feeling a twinge here and there its relentless and can be debilitating. It can last a long time, no matter how many treatments or remedies an individual may try.
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So many of us are living with chronic pain. Whether it’s because of an illness, an accident or any other reasons. Although medication can help us manage our pain, it can also come with several side effects, high costs and having to play roulette to find the most effective one.
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There are so many ways to go about managing chronic pain, and pacing is one of them. You may no longer do certain activities to avoid having a flare-up. Or maybe you push yourself to do the things you really enjoy, with the same outcome – PAIN! This is why learning how to pace yourself is an important part of managing pain.
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No matter how much medication you take or the amount of rest you get, chronic pain somehow still creeps its way in. Which is why figuring out how to distract yourself from pain is useful when all else fails. Using distraction has been really effective in helping me to cope with my chronic pain.
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