#pain management

[fandomsandfeminism]

I'm begging people to not be afraid of OTC pain meds.

OTC pain meds are not a devil’s bargain or a moral failing. They are a tool to reduce unneeded suffering. They do not destroy your organs if taken correctly, and there is no reward for the people who take the fewest pills in life.

Take what helps, and take it safely! If you have prescription meds or other health issues, always check for possible interactions/adverse effects. 

Edit: the upper limit for paracetamol/acetaminophen is actually more like 4g for most people! :)

#pain meds #ableism #pain management #some of yall are real catholic about pain #suffering isn't good for you #yeah dont chug a bottle of Tylenol #but if you read the labels and check with your other meds you are gonna be ok #better than ok actually because you wont be in as much pain

[faggot-greg-house]

soon enough i will write my house pain management fic i have it in my DRAFTS but until then i will just yell here

the way the show treated house's pain is so insane and i hate it so much. first off he should never have been put on vicodin long term. vicodin isn't a long term solution for most things but especially without ANY OTHER attempts at managing his pain???? also not to mention that compounds like vicodin and percocet are very often not long term solutions at all because the acetaminophen in them drastically increases the risk of overdose and liver damage. if he was on opiates for pain management he would likely be on something that's just a straight opiate (hydrocodone, oxycodone, fentanyl, etc etc).

on top of that, the fact that they take him off vicodin and throw him on ibuprofen is fucking absurd. there are so many pain meds that could be effective and helpful for him with minimal risk. imo he shouldve been put on a nerve pain med, a muscle relaxer, an nsaid, and an opiate for breakthrough pain at LEAST. letting a man run free on just vicodin for YEARS is so deeply unhinged.

i also firmly believe that a cane is not even close to the best mobility aid for house. i do think that house would likely refuse to use a lot of mobility aids and that his use of a cane is an in character choice but on a strictly logistical level a wheelchair or forearm crutches would be so much more helpful for him. i also do think he should've been in therapy to deal with his disability from the start (again, though, probably an in character choice)

i inevitably have more to say and i will either go off on here or in a fic but. someone help that man be in less pain dear god

#hate crimes md #house md #gregory house #pain management #canon disabled character #my thoughts

[fightthereality]

Hey I know people more eloquent and better suited than me have said this but why the FUCK haven’t we normalized using disability aids yet?

I don’t mean for people who rely on them day to day—though, that too, but it really ought to have its own post—but specifically: people who are otherwise able bodied using disability aids as needed

This is coming from being someone whose body swings wildly from “extremely agile” to “ow my bones and ligaments hurt if I put all my weight on my legs” and as such, I use a cane when my hips are popping out of socket and I know I’m going to have a bad day. otherwise I’m climbing and biking to my hearts content, which makes people suspicious, for lack of a better word, of my cane when I do need it.

And I’m tired of it

Why should I subject myself to even one day of excruciating pain if I have a way to ease it? Just because it’s not a constant doesn’t mean I should just muscle through it and make my body hurt more in the long run, so why do people get so offended by a seemingly able bodied person using a stability device?

I have a friend who, after a series of sports related leg injuries, uses a wheelchair or crutches on occasion to deal with leg spasms. She’s been accosted on several occasions by complete strangers who see her get up from her wheelchair to reach something or to stretch her legs as her doctor directed her. So many people assume she’s lazy or faking because they’ve seen her before without the aids

I don’t know how to succinctly wrap up where I’m going with this but like

Sometimes people have not only invisible but inconsistent disabilities, sometimes people get temporarily injured, etc. I don’t understand why there’s so much stigma behind pain management for people who seem able bodied

And being able bodied is temporary for most people anyway

I dunno

#shut up Oliver #cripple punk #chronic pain #chronic illness #disability #pain management #this goes for people who talk shit about folks who have to take pain meds a lot #delete later #ehlers danlos syndrome

[minimallycreative]

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#take me out of my misery #chronic illness #chronic pain is a bitch #chronic life #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #chronically ill #cripplepunk #cripple punk #crip punk #queer cripple #pain flare #chronic pain disorder #pain management

[penvisions]

dev's hip is lame

i really hate to do this but....i am asking for help. but only if it's within anyone's abilities.

i've talked about it a bit by i have pretty bad hip dysplasia and will need to get a replacement surgery in the next five years, i unfortunately cannot afford to refill my pain meds and muscle relaxers this month and i'm already feeling the effects of cutting my remaining doses in half. anything will help and be so greatly appreciated. but i know it's a lot to even think of asking with everyone having their own stuff going on ♡

ko-fi account

seriously, anything will help. even just a signal boost or a reblog, i appreciate y'all so much and don't want to be a worry wart with this.

#dev talks #personal #medical stuff #mobility issues #pain management #life sucks sometimes #medical issues #healthcare is a joke #pedro pascal fandom

[yoteblog]

Pain relief methods:

context: I have joint pain due to h-ehlers danlos and arthritis, along with muscular pain due to hEDS as well. I also have an unknown autoimmune, which often coinsides with my pain. These methods are what work for me for my needs. I will be excluding prescription medication, and drugs that are still illegal in parts of the US (yknow the one) please talk to a doctor if you consider getting prescription medication, many prescription pain medications can be addictive which is why they are a controlled substance

Ibuprofen for muscular pain

Tylenol for joint pain (arthritis Tylenol is a different kind, and makes my joints much more stiff than regular Tylenol)

heating pad

warm bath (a rarity, as if my joints hurt enough, I don't want to struggle to get in and out of the bath)

rest

Voltaren (CAN be prescription, but also OTC, expensive but works decently after a few uses. Relief doesn't last long imo)

Icy hot or anything similar

Back/Knee brace to prevent further pain

good, long stretches for upper back pain (side to side stretch)

mobility aids (I haven't used any myself persay, ive used walking sticks ive created when out in the forest, and at work when im cleaning up for the night I push around some carts and put some weight of mine in them which makes it easier for me to move)

compression socks/gloves (gloves for when my hand joints are acting up and are stiff, socks for when the bloodflow in my legs arent cycling correctly AND helps with muscle pain caused by heds)

#chronic illness #heds #hypermobile ehlers danlos #ehlers danlos syndrome #autoimmine disease #arthiritis #chronically ill #disabled #hidden disability #disability #pain management

[simply-salem]

✨ A reminder! The holidays are not a happy time for everyone! ✨

please, don’t expect me to “be happy” just because it’s christmas

everyone’s dealing with things that they may not be open about, such as grief, eating disorders, depression, chronic illness, financial instability, etc.

you don’t owe anyone your happiness, and your certainly don’t owe anyone your energy!

take care of yourself this holiday season 💗🎄

#actually autistic #asd #chronic pain #chronic illness #spoonie #sensory overload #actually disabled #autistic community #chronic fatigue #chronically ill #disability #undiagnosed chronic pain #autistic experiences #pain management #autism blog #autistic problems #possibly autistic #sensory problems #undiagnosed autistic #actuallyautistic #potsie #spoonies #holiday

[youngchronicpain]

Update on the new pill case! I bought two more so that I can fill three weeks at a time. I love that I can take the day's meds out and bring them with me in my purse. I still have my little magnetic case that I have for my as-needed meds. But this has made my routine so much easier!

#medications #spoonie #chronic pain #chronic illness #disability #pain management #I got them on Amazon for a little over 7 dollars a piece

[cripple-council]

[id: purple text with a black outline reading: “it’s more than okay to take and need pain medications”. there are two purple hearts with a black outline, one placed above the text and one placed below the text. the background is transparent. /end id]

#cripple punk #crip punk #cripplepunk #physical disability #physically disabled #c punk #cpunk #pain #chronic pain #pain medication #pain management

[ahedderick]

Oh, look, now I can PROVE that my head isn't on straight. (wah!)

The last line of text, where I'm diagnosed "Abnormal," is very motivating. Now I know why there are so many 'noises' involved in me attempting to stretch my neck any direction at all. lol C1 you absolute bastard.

#medical #neck pain #pain management #back pain #chiropractor

[audhd-space]

Currently exploring Time Tree calendar app to track the pain scale for my migraine. I LOVE love the part where I can edit the Label List and shift it as my pain scale label and arrange them according to colours + level.

BUT-

the best part of this app is that I can create separate calendars; one shared with housemates, one for work, one personal AND have notification sets at variety of timings.

And then you can also set for other people who are in the shared calendar as you. So if we have to remind our housemates about not being around, we will just enter the thing in the calendar and then have it pop in their notifications as reminder.

If you have ADHD or struggle with executive dysfunctions, it shifts the responsibility alone on you to others to help remind you as well as you with others.

#time tree #calendar #app #pain scale reference #spoonie #pain management #chronic pain #spoonie life #chronic illness #disability #migraine #adhd #neurodivergent #autistic #executive dysfunctions #tips #lifehacks #chronic pain management

[juvia-is-beast]

Hey Y'all I rarely post stuff of my own but I'm in need of help. I've always had a hard time asking for help but I've become desperate. I just moved out of my toxic Indian household at 27 with no savings because my mom would take all of my SSI checks and huge chunks of my paycheck that I worked for. I'm having a lot of health issues and chronic pain flare ups. I work at a college but I've been put in an administrative role until I can get my health in order. I don't have as many hours but now I can actually see doctors. My family was preventing me from getting help, from seeing doctors or getting my meds on time. I have PTSD and I can't drive because of it. I need financial help. I've been approved for SNAP but I'm waiting on my EBT card. I'll be going to a food bank tomorrow to get some food but that still leaves me with no funds to buy medical marijuana. I've been experiencing nerve pain the last 2 months and hormonal migraines for a straight month. I live in FL and it's super heavily taxed and I'm having trouble getting my muscle relaxers re-prescribed because I need a specialist to prescribe them for my insurance to keep paying for them. I have no other proper pain management rn. Please help me. I know the global climate is at its worst right now and I feel guilty making this post with everything going on in Palestine but that doesn't change the fact that I NEED HELP.

If you can help in any way please, even suggestions on what to do better with e-begging would be greatly appreciated.

My Cash@pp: $ButtPirate27

I can also tutor you online in Algebra if you need a math tutor I can help with Pre-Calc and Trig too but I'm far too rusty on Calculus to tutor but I would gladly tutor for any financial help.

If you want more info on my situation I don't mind sharing. I've been on Tumblr for 11 years and barely ever posted about my own life. I know that there are definitely people here willing to help but there have also been a fair share of scammers so I understand the hesitation. Here's my cat Ares, something cute to look at. I want to get him a cat tree too and a bin to make a housed litter box for him.

#mutual aid #help need #my post #moving out #toxic family #financial abuse #financial aid #e-begging #pain management #new start #low funds #will tutor in algebra for money

[poison-uwu]

Pain management is key <3

#symptoms flaring up 🥺🥺 #props to aus for making medical so fkn expensive 🙃 #pain management #mine #420girls #420stoner #emo scene #fishnets #thigh high #tummy #stoned #high girls #poison.uwwu #poison-uwu #pansexual #ns/fw pics #ns/fw aesthetic #stoner gif #stoner chick #alternative grunge #Spotify

[ghoulaxyart]

Lack of proper sleep sucks

#gonna try to get my appointment for tretament moved up sooner #waiting until the end of the month is not ideal #personal #pain management #disability

[treemaidengeek]

Hey, fellow spoonies! Got a min for a bit of writing that has absolutely transformed my relationship to my chronic illness?

This is from Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief by Jon Kabat-Zinn, based on his experiences co-running (?) a clinic specifically for people with severe unmanageable chronic illness & chronic pain. Part of the book is exercises, which weren't hugely impactful for me. But this section I've listened to over and over. It's been a game changer for me. Maybe it'll help you too.

Below the cut bc it's long.

"First, a working definition of mindfulness so we know what we're talking about when we use that word. You can think of mindfulness as pure awareness. In particular, the awareness that arises from paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment or reaction, to whatever appears in the field of your experience.

You already have awareness. It’s as much a part of being human as our capacity for thinking or for breathing. So you can always ask yourself in any moment: is my awareness of pain, in pain? and then take a look and see. You can also expand this line of investigation to ask yourself, is my awareness of fear afraid? Is my awareness of anger, angry? Is my awareness of sadness, sad? Very revealing and liberating exploration, as we shall experience firsthand.

Of course being non-judgmental and non-reactive sounds like an ideal. But it isn't, really, not in the way we’re talking about it. It's a way of being in relationship to experience, a commitment to--as best we can–suspend our judging for a time, and suspend believing in our judgements as being true.

Of course, we judge everything, and tend to react automatically whenever things are not to our liking. And we can be very emotionally reactive, especially when we're hurting. So as we shall see further on, and in the practices themselves, we just observe the judging and reacting when they arise, and–as best we can–refrain from judging our judging, or reacting to our reactions.

A number of principles, attitudes, and perspectives are important to keep in mind when cultivating a mindful approach to working with chronic pain conditions or any other distressing elements in your life.

Here are seven that are fundamental and bear revisiting and keeping in mind, and listening to again and again, just as with the meditation practices. We will be making use of them every day, and even moment by moment throughout the day.

1. As we said, as long as you’re breathing there is really more right with you than wrong, no matter what is wrong. And our work will involve mobilizing those interior resources of your own inner landscape, of your body and mind, to work for you to improve the quality of your day-to-day and moment-to-moment life.

2. One of those interior resources is the power of the present moment. The power of “now” is enormous, yet mostly we persist in living in the past or in the future, in memory or in constant anticipation, worry, and planning, most of the time. And we never realize and never recognize how powerful and healing it can be to inhabit this moment, the only one we are ever alive in.

So strange as it may sound, it turns out it is very challenging to actually live in the present moment, even though it's the only time we ever really have to do anything: for learning, for growing, for coming to terms with things as they are, for expressing our affection and appreciation for others, for loving. All this takes ongoing practice.

3. Of course we are happy to show up more in the present moment as long as it's exactly to our liking. But it usually isn't anywhere near as good or as pleasant as we would wish it to be. That is true even if we don't have a chronic pain condition that we could see as the cause of all our troubles.

Have you noticed how easy it is to always want things to be different from how they actually are?

We certainly don't want to inhabit the present moment if we don't like it, and we certainly don't like it if we are in significant pain. So we can easily get caught up in trying to distract ourselves and escape from the present moment because it's not to our liking.

4. Our usual options when faced with situations we don't like and wouldn't want anyone to suffer from, are twofold. As we just saw, we can turn away from them and try to ignore them or escape from them as best we can. Or alternatively, we can get caught up in obsessing about our troubles endlessly and feel victimized.

Either way we might (as so many people do) turn to familiar resources at our disposal to dull the pain, such as alcohol or drugs, or food or TV, even if those coping strategies don't work, are addictive, or have terrible consequences that may make our lives worse in the long run.

We might also get into the habit of being irritable, gruff, and angry a good deal of the time, out of our own pain and frustration. Or emotionally withdrawn from others and from life, distant, cut off, in a state of perpetual contraction of both body and mind.

None of these coping strategies make for much happiness and ease of being. Grinning and bearing it isn't much fun. And blaming all our troubles on the pain doesn't actually make anything any better, as we usually come to see at some point or other. This can just further compound our frustration and even despair.

5. There is a third way of dealing with painful experiences, a way of being rather than perpetual doing and forcing. One that involves neither turning away from painful experiences, nor becoming overwhelmed by them. That third way is the way of mindfulness, the way of opening to and befriending our experience, however strange that may sound.

We do this by turning toward what we most fear to feel and opening gradually, over time, and only to the degree that you choose, to the full range of our experiences in any given moment, even when what we are experiencing is highly unpleasant, aversive, and unwanted.

You could think of it as putting out the welcome mat for what is happening. Because whatever it is, it is happening already. Any attempt to turn away is really a denying of your situation, which doesn't help much. And succumbing to resignation, a sense of being defeated, or to depression or perhaps even self-pity will clearly only make matters worse. If we take the turning-away route, we will be turning away from the opportunity to learn from what the pain has to teach us.

If we take the turning-away route, even though it may seem simpler when we are in a depressed mind-state, we may never find openings, new possibilities, new beginnings, new ways of being that are available to us right inside our own circumstances and our own mind and body. We might not discover that we can become stronger and more flexible in the face of whatever it is that we are dealing with, discover new options for relating to what we are carrying – which is the root meaning in Latin of the word “to suffer.” The approach of mindfulness, of turning-toward and opening to our experience – even when it is difficult – can readily lead to new ways of seeing including new possibilities for coming to terms with our situation in the moment, whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not.

This is called resilience, an interior strength we can cultivate through practice. A way to live, and live well, with what life offers up for us: “the full catastrophe,” as Zorba the Greek called it – the human condition itself.

6. This path of mindfulness involves learning to open to experience moment by moment with kindness and compassion towards oneself, whether what you are experiencing in any given moment is pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant nor unpleasant. And without judging the experience as good if we like it, bad if we don't like it, and boring if we don't have any particular feeling one way or another.

As we said earlier, that doesn’t mean we won’t be judging plenty. But we can form the intention to suspend our hair-trigger tendency to judge everything according to whether we like it or not, and also our tendency to react emotionally and fairly automatically in a similar way : with acquisitiveness, even greediness, if we like it and therefore always want it to last or want more of it; and with rejection, anger, hatred, or disappointment if we don’t like it and want it to go away.

So non-judging and emotional balance in the face of challenging circumstances will be factors we can cultivate in working mindfully with our moment-to-moment experience–not as ideals we try to impose on ourselves or strive to grab hold of, but as potentials already within ourselves that we can learn to recognize and bring into greater awareness when they do arise.

Over time and with practice, we may find that being less emotionally reactive and less harshly judgemental, and kinder and more accepting of ourselves and our moments–however they may be–becomes more and more our default setting, rather than anger, resentment, fear, self-loathing, and contraction in both the mind and the body. And since these kinds of contractions of mind and body usually increase the intensity of our pain, they just compound our misery and suffering. This is one easy way we can exert significant positive influence over our pain.

7. None of this has to do with making anything go away. We’re not trying to suppress our pain or “control” it, or suppress our emotional state. We’re not trying to fix anything at all–even though we may want to, or feel helpless and resentful that medicine cannot fix what we feel is the matter. On the contrary, we are just looking for a place to sit or to stand, a momentary refuge within which we can contemplate the present moment, and perhaps discover some respite right in the middle of things as they are, however they are. Amazingly, this stance of what I often call non-doing or just being can very quickly lead to things changing–since things are always changing, even our pain and our relationship to it.

But sometimes if we are too stuck in our thought-habits, in the same old ruts regarding our condition, desperate to get somewhere else or fix something you think might be broken, or else make it go away, our very desire and fixation may lead to its just staying around longer, as if we were actually feeding those energies, as if we ourselves are locking ourselves in and preventing our world from changing. The world and our bodies are always changing. That is a natural law: the law of impermanence. Everything changes. Why would we be an exception? So sometimes patience and forbearance may be called for, and good strategies for allowing things to change and even heal on their own."

#jon kabat zinn #spoonie #mindfulness #coping strategies #chronic illness #chronic pain #pain management #mental health #I just have the audiobook so I've made my best guess at kabat zinn's punctuation #I'm not affiliated with him or anything I just found his work super helpful and want to share #if it seems helpful to you you might consider checking it out from your library to hear/read more and to help him out as a writer #this is not mine! #in case that's not obvious

[deesi-academia]

its not talked about enough but i realized that i can talk about it. so here i am.

breast soreness when your period is upcoming? happens.

cervical headaches when your period is late? happens.

jumping from a large appetite one day to no appetite at all the next? happens.

but again, if any of the symptoms are troubling you or are new to you, PLEASE visit a doctor. consider it a normal checkup, but please go. take care of yourself because in most cases, you simply dont tell anyone. how much is too much pain? every pain, is simply pain. less pain or more pain doesnt change the fact that its PAIN. PERIOD.

#period pain #i am suffering right now so i got inspired to put this out in the world #periods #pain management #pain relief #period cramps #soreness #menstruation #period problems #pms