Chronic Pain Coping

Chronic pain coping is the hardest thing at first. It seems nothing is going to relieve your suffering. Day after day is the same thing. You just want relief.

You will be asking yourself these questions ........

• Will my life ever be the same again?
• Will I always be helpless?
• What will people think, that I am a whiner and complainer?
• What kind of a hardship will this put on my family?
• Will the pain ever go away so I can have my life back?
• What will I do if I never recover, will chronic pain coping be my life now?

As time goes by you will learn how chronic pain coping is managed. It is probable that life won’t be the same as before. That doesn’t mean that it is the end of life as we know it.

Life changes everyday and we must change with it. You have things that step in your way and that you will have to go around. Some are more severe than others but you will manage to go on. I like to call them “challenges“.

As for being helpless, you are only as helpless as you allow yourself to be. Chronic pain coping is one of those challenges.

As time goes by, with help from the doctors, you will learn how to deal with the chronic pain in your own way. You will learn your limitations and how far you can push yourself.

Some think you take advantage of your family, others think you don’t need the pain medication and that you are just using it to get sympathy.

For those, they don’t matter anyway. You have to do what is best for you and your family.

Things won’t be easy for the family either, but most learn to cope in their own way. Life isn’t over for any of us.

You can still laugh, give hugs to your children, (even though it may hurt) so they know they are still loved, tell stories or even just talk. Being up and moving around doesn’t make anyone a better person.

Will the pain ever go away? I don’t know, but that doesn’t mean life has ended. The pain is controllable with the right treatment, medications and rest.

Having some semblance of you life back ,as it was before, is up to you. Having it to return to what it was completely, probably not.

With patience we can forge a new life and way of doing things. There are always options to doing the dame things as before in a little different way. You will need to be resourceful and try now things that are satisfying.

Get busy with something that is gratifying for you. You can do almost anything setting down.

If you aren’t crafty, try writing a book about your experiences with chronic pain that may help others. Have an idea for a new product, push forward and do something with it. Being idle will only make chronic pain coping that much harder.

So get active in something that interests you and leave the pain on the shelf as best you can.

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