Someone Asked Me What It Was Like To Have Chronic Pain

Unless you have chronic pain most people just don't understand chronic pain. Yep God made us that way. You see God was pretty smart when he us made humans. We can remember something hurt, but not the actual pain. If we could I'm pretty sure there would be a lot more single child family's.

We all have pain from time to time, but that's acute pain. It hurts, but it only last a few minutes to a few weeks and it's gone. The pain it's self fades and over time and the memory of the pain fades until you say, ya getting thrown from that 2000 bull did hurt, but it wasn't that bad.

Chronic pain on the other hand go on day after day, you go to bed with it, and you wake up to it. It affects aspect of your life you can't even imagine. Little things like being able to pick up your grand kids to fixing simple things around your home others think nothing about.


If you're one of those people who think someone with chronic pain can just buck up and get over it, give this a try. 

Take two small vice grip pliers, clamp one on the side of your foot behind your little toe. Now take the other vice grip and hook them on your foot near your heal. Make sure they're nice and tight, now keep them on for a week. Let me know how that goes, oh wait.

You need to understand neuropathic pain too. So take a cord from a lamp about 6' long and cut it off. Split the wires and hook one side to one of the vice grips, and the other side to the other vice grip. Now plug it into 110v for 2 to 5 seconds every 5-10 minutes during the day, all day, every day. Now you understand....

Most people won't tell you these things, because the first thing you learn about pain, is that nobody really want's to hear you hurt.

When you hurt all the time it wears on you, you just get tired of hurting. When you add fighting with pain doctors who listen to rumors and fake news rather than the CDC, FDA, or DEA.

Then there's the pharmacists who look at everyone on pain medications as drug addicts or junkies.... One pharmacist at Safeway told me all pain management doctors should be locked up..... 

Many times the last straw is when the pharmacy tells you time and time again, sorry your medicine won't be in until next week....