As I was saying, being in chronic pain has changed my life. Not only has it disabled me, it disabled my wife as well. Not, physically but emotionally. She became of "victim" temporarily. I say temporarily because seeing the way my pain was affecting her lead me to seek out ways to return to some sort of normalacy of life. I wish I could tell you I have found the "magic well" and chronic pain is gone forever but you already know that isn't so. What I did find was that taking all of the medicines and going thru the physical therapy recommendations didn't take away the pain. Sure, you can take the meds and passout for a couple of hours, wake up, repeat meds and passout again but what kind of life is that?

Taking the meds at the dosages needed to bring the pain to a level that allowed me to walk also left me drowsy and un-alert; I was a danger. I didn't dare drive and walking wasn't a guarantee either. Or I could skip the meds and not be able to move because the pain prevented any kind of movement whatsoever. Not a jostle, not a sneeze, no movement. While I was laying around I started to do some research. I would go deep into the search engine results on medical journal articles. I read books, magazines, personal stories, research papers, etc trying to discover if I had a CHANCE of being healed. After seeing the umpteenth specialist and being told for the I don't care to remember how many times, I accepted temporarily that my chronic pain was permanent.

The pain maybe permanent but I refuse to let it stop everything in my life anymore. That's my drive now. That's the first step in overcoming the depression associated with chronic pain and taking your life back. Until you can actually and truthfully say to yourself that YOU REFUSE TO LET CHRONIC PAIN STOP EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE, there is nothing that I will tell you and direct you to that will even begin to help you tolerate your chronic pain. The depression will come and go but it won't be as smothering as it once was after a few months.  This isn't a quick trip. I've been suffering since 1996 and became completely debilitated a couple of times along the way culminating in 2000.

So, first step to begin tolerating chronic pain is to truthfully refuse to allow chronic pain stop everything in your life. Your mind has to be right with your heart and desire to begin to tolerate chronic pain. Your family has to accept that you are really in pain but that you are no longer going to allow chronic pain to stop everything. Your spouse. Your children. Everybody who you love and who loves you has to acknowledge and accept your resolution to refuse to allow chronic pain to stop everything in your life. Once you have that power of that network behind you come on back and read some more. That's where I will share with you additional methods to mentally begin tolerating chronic pain and tools and products to help you physically begin tolerating chronic pain better in as little as 24 hours after you implement them.

I've included some text links to sites and information that should be useful to you.

Vini