With my constant/chronic pain I can tell you there's nothing I can really do but view success as better managing it. I live with it, but try to lessen it. Frankly I think most medications (especially painkillers) are worthless at best and aggravate the problem at worst. There's some sort of gland in the brain that releases endorphins to fight pain, but when you have chronic pain they just don't do anything anymore. These medications either make you secrete something to fight pain (which is like trying to get milk out of an empty carton) or they confuse you so that you can't concentrate on the pain which isn't really living. You might as well just get drunk. If getting high made a difference, maybe.
I just try get professional massage, eat well, practise good posture, breathing, rest when my body requires it, etc. But that's my shoulder/neck injury and arthritis.
For headaches it was worse. I don't actually get them anymore, but I used to. I had lots of MRIs, CAT scans, experimental medications, specialists at universities and the like. Nothing ever did anything. I eventually got sick of it and just refused to have headaches. I haven't had one in almost 20 years. Not a single one. But it doesn't work for a shoulder injury. I think headaches are psychosomatic, and if I am controlling bringing them on myself I will control not having them. I learned to relax better, breathe properly, avoid food with artificial garbage in it and I just plain got sick of not living a life that my willpower changed.
I think the biggest mistake you can make is to wait. You have to take control of it. Go get a good Chinese massage, see a chiropractor, get acupuncture, whatever. One of those things might hit or a combination of them can be a multi-pronged approach. Maybe the meds work as well, but they really just manage the pain and not the root cause. So if you go for meds to get a breather while you try something else that's a plan. But it's like drinking diet soda to lose weight. All of my most overweight friends drink/eat diet everything, but they don't exercise or change their lifestyle. But if you do change your lifestyle that diet stuff keeps the calories off while you're actually exercising. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should try some other things like rest, destressing and some physical therapy for your solution and use the meds as an aid and we'll hope it's not something serious.
I hate the waiting, but I'm nervous about having a massage or anything else until I know what's causing the headaches. They came on suddenly and severely without any trauma. I don't want anything to exacerbate the problem if there is one. If it turns out to be .. nothing in particular causing them, then I am not opposed to trying alternate methods of pain management other than pills.
I just try get professional massage, eat well, practise good posture, breathing, rest when my body requires it, etc. But that's my shoulder/neck injury and arthritis.
For headaches it was worse. I don't actually get them anymore, but I used to. I had lots of MRIs, CAT scans, experimental medications, specialists at universities and the like. Nothing ever did anything. I eventually got sick of it and just refused to have headaches. I haven't had one in almost 20 years. Not a single one. But it doesn't work for a shoulder injury. I think headaches are psychosomatic, and if I am controlling bringing them on myself I will control not having them. I learned to relax better, breathe properly, avoid food with artificial garbage in it and I just plain got sick of not living a life that my willpower changed.
I think the biggest mistake you can make is to wait. You have to take control of it. Go get a good Chinese massage, see a chiropractor, get acupuncture, whatever. One of those things might hit or a combination of them can be a multi-pronged approach. Maybe the meds work as well, but they really just manage the pain and not the root cause. So if you go for meds to get a breather while you try something else that's a plan. But it's like drinking diet soda to lose weight. All of my most overweight friends drink/eat diet everything, but they don't exercise or change their lifestyle. But if you do change your lifestyle that diet stuff keeps the calories off while you're actually exercising. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should try some other things like rest, destressing and some physical therapy for your solution and use the meds as an aid and we'll hope it's not something serious.
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