Under the ADA, employers are required to make reasonable adjustments for their employees. If you can't stand on a hard surface, it's not unreasonable for your to request a $40 bar mat to stand on. Additionally, it would be a good idea for you to discuss with your boss that you will occasionally need to call out because of your pain. Working in a medical facility, I'm sure ze will understand that you're not loafing, but rather actually require additional rest.
Regular pain killers, when used properly, are not any more likely to lead to addiction than is marijuana.
For me, I've been in pain my whole life. I honestly can't remember a time in my life when I wasn't dealing with physical pain. It got worse after I was laid off, (I think), and I didn't start trying to figure out how to deal with it until this year.
i cant remember when i DIDNT hurt. and i'm talking about going on back to my teens (i'm 47 now). i have arthritis in both knees (yay breaking a kneecap) and no one knows what causes fibro, but we definitely know stress can make it worse.
I've had chronic pain issues since I was fourteen, but those were all pretty easily traced to sports/music injuries. My junior year of undergrad my knee started bothering me, it got worse and worse until I couldn't bike, and then everything sort of fell apart into fibro.
I have had headache/neck/back pain for a long time, but since my sophmore and junior year of college I did chiropractic and massage regularly and I wrote it off as TMJ that was really bad, and then I had a super stressful awful time with my job during grad school and by the time I took another stressful job my wrists/forearms had major pain when I was 27 and I had the whole rhumetology panel etc and got labeled with fibro when all the other tests didn't pan out (and I have pain in all my tender points and TMJ, IBS, etc etc
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I know, I was diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease earlier this year (February), because I had horrible burning when I would urinate. Went to the emergency room 3 times (because I was in a tiny town in Canada and it took a month to get an appointment at the campus clinic at my school, so we always just went to the emergency room), and they told me it was probably a yeast infection, then they thought maybe a urinary tract infection, and then pelvic inflammatory disease (I also saw 3 different doctors). Anyway, the last guy gave me an antibiotic that got rid of it, but I wonder if that triggered anything, on top of stress, on top of carrying too much for school, on top of bad posture, on top of...everything else. =D
I can't remember a time when I wasn't in pain. I've been diagnosed with everything from chronic fatigue and IBS to being called a hypochondriac by three doctors. I've also had it blamed on my weight (at one time I was above 400lbs).
Stress will definitely make things worse. I'm on Savella and Flexaril with tramadol and oxycodone for break through pain (which lately has been every day).
I used to worry about addiction but, to be perfectly honest, I need them so, oh well.
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Regular pain killers, when used properly, are not any more likely to lead to addiction than is marijuana.
For me, I've been in pain my whole life. I honestly can't remember a time in my life when I wasn't dealing with physical pain. It got worse after I was laid off, (I think), and I didn't start trying to figure out how to deal with it until this year.
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rant away. we all need that. :)
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Stress will definitely make things worse. I'm on Savella and Flexaril with tramadol and oxycodone for break through pain (which lately has been every day).
I used to worry about addiction but, to be perfectly honest, I need them so, oh well.
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