No One Knows Your Pain

Today is a bad one, taking my pain meds which do very little towards blocking any pain. 
Spending my day using my tens 
on my poor destroyed neck. feeling tied down!

Welcome Friend!!! How are you today?

This is my blog, it’s sometimes depressing, and yet there may be some tidbits of information you’ll go away with. Types of treatments, things I’ve tried because I’ve tried almost anything that promised relief.

Too many people on here trying to take advantage 
of people with chronic pain,

I hope you burn in Hell for being so cruel…

If you’re a friend or family member you may learn a few things about me, about some of my treatments

things you didn’t know...

The reason I write this is because it helps to get it out of my system. When you’re aware that talking to the people who love you about your misery is making them feel as helpless as you do.

You’ll try to keep it inside!

 But then it is never good to keep things bottled up inside!            I could go talk to a counselor, who gets paid to listen
but they can’t help me nobody can!!!

What’s the point???

Just spending money so someone who doesn’t even know me

will listen to me, seems stupid…

Most people’s reaction to my saying that I’m suffering is an automatic fail, Illness of any kind turns people away.

 It hurts me, to see you don’t really care to listen.

So I then turn to the net and it has helped!

I’ve met people that like me are living in chronic pain. It’s been comforting to feel and know that I am not the only one dealing with this hellish non life.

Thank God I have found I am not alone!

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,

neither shall there be any more pain:

 for the former things are passed away.” —Revelation 21:4

I do not only have Fibromyalgia,
 Oh no it’s just not enough for me.

I have three herniated disks on the left side of my neck, I was diagnosed with Cervical (neck) Degenerative Disk Disease …

“The nerves of the neck, when irritated can lead to head pain that travels from the neck to the top of the skull and around the ears. Sometimes the pain can radiate into the face or eyes. These headaches can make it difficult to think clearly.”

Fibro fog +2

“God of wisdom, help me to think clearly.”

“Currently there is no proven treatment to prevent or cure neuropathic pain (neuropathy or nerve pain). Instead, the primary goals of treatment are to reduce the pain as much as possible, balance the negative side effects of the treatment, and help patients manage any unresolved pain.”

Put it all together my continued physical and emotional suffering caused by having severe fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) Degenerative Disk Disease> has in a way ruined my life. I cannot sleep more than a few hours > without using sedative medications and pain medications. I have to sleep with a small round pillow under my neck so I don’t do anything to make my neck pain worse.

I take my medications because I have to... I can't function due to the pain without pain killers and I only take enough to take the edge off!!! I don’t abuse my pain meds because I am afraid my body could get too used to a higher dosage. Then when I have a seriously bad day, taking extra med’s might not work!! There are already a lot of times when the pains been so bad nothing seemed to help. I’ve tried everything and I’ve gotten so depressed that I didn't want to live another day. That's not quite the same as suicide; it just means that I didn't want to face tomorrow...

I have been told that I hide it well, and I try; but only God knows the physical affliction 
that I suffer that others suffer day and night.

It's difficult to have a Social life,

to be a normal Mother. Grandmother and Wife!!!

The pain often radiates into my facial area from the neck

I don't expect people to understand all this. Most people judge others by what they see, but you cannot see what a person feels inside (neither bodily nor emotionally). People, including my own family, do not understand what I am going through...

Pray for me whoever you may be, as I pray for all my web visitors, regardless of who you are. God loves us, not because of who we are, but because of Who He is.

I've had some people criticize me, saying that I don't need pain medications because there are natural alternatives.

That is not true.

There are none that I have found to work.

 If you've never been in agonizing chronic pain, then you cannot grasp the blessing of pain medications.

Today I used my tens most of the morning!! Then had an upset stomach with my colon having a fit, got feeling weak and shaky. My warning I’ve started bleeding when I go cause of the IBS. Another Dr’s appointment I must make

“God, you know.”

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) 
is a disorder that involves abdominal pain, cramping, bloating, as well as changes in bowel movements - 
constipation or diarrhea, or alternation of both. 
People with IBS often experience anxiety and depression.

Millions of people have at least one of these conditions. Fibromyalgia affects 5 million U.S. adults, and an estimated 25 million to 45 million people in the U.S. have IBS.

They forgot to say that it’s mostly women!

I had trouble standing to make a salad for hubbys dinner. 
He was upset with me because it was late,

Can’t blame him for being impatient, I’m always sick!!!

‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.’