|
Chronic pain also, but fortunatley I have Borderline Personality Disorder and we generally have a high threshold of pain. (Obviously, I've been on those threads acting as a cheerleader!) But it does get too me also. It is tough to exercise when I am in pain . The great thing about exercise, though, is endorphines. If you can just keep up a brisk activity for 20 minutes, you can feel the endorphines kick in. The pain, for me, is never completely gone, but it moves into the background. Sometimes, it just doesn't matter what I do though. The pain is in the foreground, way, way in the foreground, in my face. I get snappy, irritable. Then, I take hot, hot baths with epsom salts (also good for you because you absorb the magnesium through the skin.) Sometimes, I do just give up. I just have to lie down.
I would not reommend chiroprators, because Orthopedists are just plain better. They are real MDs. They can do the same manipulations. They usually fix me in one visit rather than several. They have been less expensive for me in the long run. I didn't even know Orthopedists existed until a few years ago. I've been through a series of chiropractors.
I don't want the pain the take over at this stage in my life. I just feel I've got to fight it or by the time I am really old, life will be unbearable.
|