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[Changing4Best]

Finally my pain was so bad this morning that I called the Physical Therapy place to ask them if my pain should be this bad. They put me on the phone with my Physical Therapist and she asked me if any of my exercises were causing me pain when I do them. I said yes and told her which one. She then asked me if I remembered her telling me that I should not do any exercise that caused me pain. I had forgotten this little detail! I won't forget it now, I tell you that much. She even told me that I should put a big X through the exercise on my sheet of them that causes me the pain. I did so gladly! Now just to recover from this awful pain, it hurts when I sit. I have been doing a lot of standing and walking now, which helps. Sitting is for the birds right now. I am going to get up and walk right now again. Too bad it is raining outside.....

 

[Changing4Best]

My Physical Therapist recommended this TENS UNIT:

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as the best and also one of the less expensive units. I read the spec's on it and I think if this pain continues on in my life, I might just invest in this thing. The price is something I can even budget into my meager income, I think, with a bit of planning. You do need to periodically replace the electrodes as they eventually wear out, she says. That might be a problem, depending upon if you can buy them in large enough quantities to make the shipping fees reasonable.

Anyway, I thought I would share this info, since we have been discussing TENS units a bit here. I hope this can be helpful to any of you who are suffering with pain. Pain is not something we should have to deal with, on top of all our PTSD stuff. To me, that is just one too many things to deal with in life! I am beside myself, trying to find ways to solve this pain, especially since it is worst when I am sitting. Today I am not suffering as much as I was yesterday. I was up there in the 9-10 range of pain yesterday whenever I was sitting. I found it impossible to stay seated. It was just too unbearable! So I went to bed and rested and slept and rested and slept for something like 18 hours. I just could not deal with the pain. At least when I lay down, the pain is almost non-existent. I am so relieved when I lay down. However, I cannot spend the rest of my life in bed! Life is to be LIVED and ENJOYED as much as possible!

 

[Bookoffee]

My Physical Therapist recommended this TENS UNIT:

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That is the unit I have. I had night terrors last night so I am all bruised and pained. The unit will be used a couple of times today.

 

[Changing4Best]

I hope it helps you a lot and you feel better really soon, @Bookoffee

 

[Eagle3]

Thanks to Martial Arts training, I am constantly bruised and sore, both knees and shoulders are totally shot, one ankle, elbow, and my entire back. But I also have Fibromyalgia, so I'm constantly sore from that too! I've recently had to quit my favorite style of MA due to the horrible pain and not being able to recover fast enough, but I'm looking at other arts to study that hopefully won't make me hurt quite so badly. My therapist teaches Ki-Aikido which focuses on control and mindfulness through the techniques, so I'm going to be studying that with him for a while in order to heal my fractured cognition. That is, if my feet can take it, I have bone spurs in both heels too, so going barefoot hurts like hell. Basically, anything I love doing makes me hurt for days....

 

[Changing4Best]

So sorry to hear this, @Eagle3

Maybe Tai Chi might be an option? They even offer it at my local library and some folks in their 80s go to it even!

 

[Neverthesame]

I had a piece of ossified cartilage removed from my right knee. That wasn't too bad, but stairs were not fun for many years.

Broke my arm a few years ago. Got it pinned between a walk-behind forklift and a wall. That wasn't very painful though. (Which isn't a complaint)

I have a condition called Myalgia Paræsthetica on both hips. It's caused by wearing too much weight over the pelvis. Started when I had to wear a utility belt, never went away. Normally not too bad, but when it's acting up, it's like someone's dropped a burning coal between my belt and my butt.

The latest thing has been a (not 100% sure what it is, I'm seeing a doctor about it shortly.) I have lost most of the feeling in the back of my shoulders. Except for burning pain and numbness down my arms sometimes. Probably a herniated disc, but I'll find out when I get it looked at.

Oh, and @SheilaKathy I too know the joys of sciatica. Mines not too bad, really more of an irritating tension feeling. But when it's flared up, oooh boy! That smarts! You cannot find a comfortable way to sit either, or lay, or stand... grr!

 

[Changing4Best]

@Neverthesame I hope your Dr. finds what is wrong and that it can be solved without surgery! Let us know what is found.

I have numbness down my left arm a lot and it is said to be caused by stenosis in my neck. They wanted to do surgery and that was ten years ago. I still have not gotten brave enough to allow them to do it, as if they slip up or do something incorrectly, they could mess me up pretty badly for life. Sometimes it is best just to let it be, unless it is unbearable. Since the numbness is not unbearable for me, I let it be.

 

[Changing4Best]

Things are going a b it better. I think the Physical Therapy is helping. I am supposed to do my exercises twice per day, but sometimes I only get to them once. I am better at doing them in the mornings than I am at doing them in the evenings, so I have decided I shall do them once in the mornings and once in the afternoons. This way I have a better chance of doing what I am supposed to do, rather than what I "feel" like doing! A body can get so lazy sometimes....

 

[DharmaGirl]

I just found this! I am so glad you started it Sheila, I feel like a burden when I have pain. I have severe arthritis in my spine from T11 to S-1. I have bulging disks in the same places so that's 6, I have spondylolisthesis, which means my spinal bones are slipping off each other in 3 places. This causes horrible pain. My pain is and average of 6/10 with pain medicine. I have seen a pain psychologist, who helped a lot, then left the practice, so I'm trying a new one. I have a pain specialist, whom I really like, I used to work with her, I have medicine, and I fell out of the habit of meditation. My physical therapist feels that my back is too fragile to do anything but stretch, so I will do that. As you said, Sheila, it's not what I feel like doing, it's what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm in bad pain today, but I took a pain med, and I'm able to concentrate on writing here, and that is so helpful. May God bless your day too, Sheila.

 

[Eagle3]

Don't know if this is the right place for it, but after a whole lot of stress, i'm now going on my SECOND week of lower abdominal cramps, and nothing to show for all the misery....so frustrating! Right now ice cream and hot showers are my best friend, but I know my parents are tired of hearing me complain...I'm trying not to whine so much, but wow, this hurts!

 

[Gadgie]

DharmaGirl, I also have spondylolisthesis in my lower spine, the result of an accident that finished my working life. So I know how painful it can be!
When I fell, I knocked two vertebra together, and now they have fused, which makes every movement painful. The resulting pain can build up so much, it makes me very irritable, which makes me short tempered, do you suffer that as well?