Chronic Pain
Everyday is a negotiation with your body to not hurt. You do what you can to lessen that pain and hope for the best. At the end of the day we have little control over it.
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Everyday is a negotiation with your body to not hurt. You do what you can to lessen that pain and hope for the best. At the end of the day we have little control over it.
Last week I had no pain and made note of it because extremely unusual and I thought "So this is how everyone else feels and that's why life seems so easy & happy for everyone else!" 🥹
And then suddenly you have a good day and of course you overdo it and have to pay dearly the next few days.
Every damn time. Oh, today I can get stuff done. Tomorrow comes and you feel like a truck ran you over.
It's the worst when you make some small mistake, like hitting your foot on something, and you have to pay for it beyond your baseline pain for days or even weeks. I tell myself that I did nothing wrong, that it's because of my condition. But it's hard not to beat myself up because if I have no incidents I do still feel better.