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I am just wondering how does one balance both? Just as I thought I was getting hang on PTSD/managing flares, improving quality of life and so on.... this came. Since December it's been on and off battle, and my herniated disc/sciatica issue is getting worse. I'm 31 btw, sort of thought it's a bit early for so chronic issue. Anyway, I'm doing what I can and it keeps getting worse. Meanwhile, my insurance doesn't cover the treatment and what I make (which I thankfully had stable work for most of 2020) isn't enough to cover it either. Actually it would have been if it happened in spring, but now 2020 has finally caught up with my work as well. So temporarily I am making just enough for my bills/living. Great! But now I need to do something for my back.
I made a side business/online store etc. plan to make some extra cash, but executing it had been hard. I have a lot of pain daily, even with the pain meds I take. So there are days when doing the job I do have is hard enough. So it's a battle of priorities. I know that of course, it can be worse. I'm on this forum. So clearly, I've had harder years than this one. For some of them I've even been around this forum.
There are times in like you can't make it easy on yourself and you just need to push through. I'm guessing this might be such a moment. I keep making schedules and then the pain ends up dictating when I do things and I have to rearrange everything around it. Work in the better (though still not pain-less) moments, rest in those in which I can't.
But does anyone have better advice? Other than just pushing through? Advice for coping better with chronic pain perhaps? Today there was unexp[ected situation I had to deal with that included 3 times more walking than I've done in a while, plus some stress. By the time I was done my back was in a LOT of pain, and at the same time I was super anxious and I literally had a breakdown moment. Like, anxiety-dissociation-flare thing. Was in physical and mental pain and the 2 pushed me in this sort of fuzzy state where I couldn't think or breathe through the pain or do anything so took an hour in bed. Now I'm up finally, but still not in good state. Which means work I have done often is still something I can do(though in breaks between desk and bed because of my back) but then starting anything new and creative like side business is hard. I have of course broken it into steps, but normal steps. Now when I'm anxious and I need it broken in smaller steps, I'm too anxious to do it. I'm sorry. Maybe this is just a bad day and there is nothing anyone can say to improve it. But if there is a chance anyone has a good advice on chronic pain, then... might not help for today, but for future days. Any advice on coping with chronic physical pain will be appreciated, thank you! Not a newbie to mental issues but definitely a newbie when it comes to chronic pain...
I made a side business/online store etc. plan to make some extra cash, but executing it had been hard. I have a lot of pain daily, even with the pain meds I take. So there are days when doing the job I do have is hard enough. So it's a battle of priorities. I know that of course, it can be worse. I'm on this forum. So clearly, I've had harder years than this one. For some of them I've even been around this forum.
There are times in like you can't make it easy on yourself and you just need to push through. I'm guessing this might be such a moment. I keep making schedules and then the pain ends up dictating when I do things and I have to rearrange everything around it. Work in the better (though still not pain-less) moments, rest in those in which I can't.
But does anyone have better advice? Other than just pushing through? Advice for coping better with chronic pain perhaps? Today there was unexp[ected situation I had to deal with that included 3 times more walking than I've done in a while, plus some stress. By the time I was done my back was in a LOT of pain, and at the same time I was super anxious and I literally had a breakdown moment. Like, anxiety-dissociation-flare thing. Was in physical and mental pain and the 2 pushed me in this sort of fuzzy state where I couldn't think or breathe through the pain or do anything so took an hour in bed. Now I'm up finally, but still not in good state. Which means work I have done often is still something I can do(though in breaks between desk and bed because of my back) but then starting anything new and creative like side business is hard. I have of course broken it into steps, but normal steps. Now when I'm anxious and I need it broken in smaller steps, I'm too anxious to do it. I'm sorry. Maybe this is just a bad day and there is nothing anyone can say to improve it. But if there is a chance anyone has a good advice on chronic pain, then... might not help for today, but for future days. Any advice on coping with chronic physical pain will be appreciated, thank you! Not a newbie to mental issues but definitely a newbie when it comes to chronic pain...