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Hi, my name is AlaskaBear1. I'm here because of concerns regarding pain management
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Hi, my name is Forgottensoul. I'm here because I have a voice when it comes to my medical care but it’s just to bad nobody listens. if you try to stand up for yourself they accuse you of being mentally unstable or a lot of the doctors will drop you as a patient.
#MightyTogether #Anxiety #Depression #Migraine # Spinal Stenosis #ddd # Major Nerve Damage # Restless Leg Syndrome #neurapathy #Fibromyalgia #PTSD #RheumatoidArthritis
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Hi, my name is Lildeb48. I'm here because
I live with fibromyalgia, an old thoracic spine fracture, arthritis, cervical ddd, as well as lumbar spinal stenosis. #MightyTogether #Anxiety #Depression #Migraine #Fibromyalgia
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Hi, my name is FarmLady22712. I'm here because I am looking for help with fibromyalgia and hope neuropathy/back pain is added. I have degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis.
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This affirmation is the best affirmation I have ever received its timing is perfect because I have just had injections into my lumbar spine to kill the pain from two bilateral herniated discs at L4/L5 plus spinal stenosis which makes my legs give way and cause pain to shoot through my buttocks and down my legs the injections did not work the main thing that give the clue was standing
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planted yesterday, paying for it today
At least I did get to plant some vegetables last night and I finally got my lettuce and lemon balm plugs in the soil and I enjoyed every minute. Basil, poblano peppers, nasturtium, dwarf sunflowers, cucumber plants, carrots, more edible flowers and marigolds were also planted. We’re trying the straw bale method this year and although we’re running behind, I am excited to see what survives and flourishes. We garden at night…too hot during the day (Gardening at Night is an old REM song; I believe it’s from the first album).
But, I am paying for it today. I keep having back to back shooting nerve pain in my right hamstring from all the bending. All the tension is causing a terrific headache. Aaaaargh! So, I am drinking some herbal tea I made the other day for my business (yummy stuff! 😋) and it seems to have lessened the frequency of the spasms, (I’m assuming?). Trying to avoid breaking into my emergency stash of old muscle relaxers and just keep it natural.
#Osteoporosis #PTSD #ChronicPain #SpinalStenosis #Anxiety #DegenerativeDiscDisease #Migraine #Depression
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Been here for years, but lost you when I changed emails. So glad to be back because I’m crumbling like never before. Lifetime dealing with mental illness, BPD, PTSD, anxiety, chronic depression, agoraphobia, panic disorder, dissociative amnesia, and the list keeps accumulating. LOL. But now, my health issues with chronic pain have caught up to me in my suddenly becoming old! Don’t know where it came from. I went from 35 years old to 65 years old in 10 minutes!, Wow… my spine is crumbling from arthritis. Just had spinal fusion and now have spinal stenosis added to everything else in my spine. Have chronic pain syndrome. Trying a new type of THERAPY at Cleveland Clinic to manage my pain through my brain. My brain is not cooperating so well. I’m on an 18 month. Waiting list to get ketamine. Which would be awesome because my Medical Marijuana is absolutely astronomical and cost. Beyond disability, it’s costing my sister of fortune!!! Don’t know how they can take away your pain medicines without insurance covering the only alternative they give you. Such a sin. Anyway, to top it all off, MY Psychologist of 30 years (Retired) seven years ago. Haven’t found anyone since her. And five years ago, my sister Jean, my best friend in the whole world, passed away after I took care of her 24 seven for two years. My heart died the day she did and it will never return. I feel so isolated and lost and alone and lonely and I miss her more than life itself. All I can think is, she promised to take me with her and she didn’t!!! I don’t know how to exist without her. All this depression and grief is only making my bodily physical pain worse and worse. I’m spinning in a cycle but I cannot get out of. God I could use your friendship. Just listening to your stories will make me feel not so alone. Thank you for including me.
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Tired
Tired of this life. There are moments that are beautiful, however. One thing no matter how small can send me spiraling downward. It’s so difficult to get back up from that descent.
I’m tired of trying to have hope. I’m really - just tired. Love to all of you on this beautiful day. 🙏
#PTSD #ADHD #Depression #Anxiety #Osteoporosis #SpinalStenosis #SuicidalIdeation
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Feeling suicidal
Today, I feel like giving up more than I have lately. I’m tired of this world. I don’t have any hope for the future on so many levels. It’s all a farce; at least, to me, it is.
I used to have dreams as a very young child that things would end up this way - I would finally find peace, find love, feel accepted and in love with being alive and boom - the whole world turns into one apocalyptic nightmare. I’m separated from my family and I can’t get to them. I can see them but everyone around me is running and hiding just to dodge being physically harmed by powers greater than us, inflicted upon us by evil forces.
It feels like that now. Like I’m stuck in that dream, fighting but powerless. Stuck. Only, I am awake with only the strength to just give up. What an insane paradox. A cruel joke. Isn’t there any light anywhere anymore? So glad and grateful I can post here. No one else understands. 🙏❤️
#CPTSD #SuicidalIdeation #Depression #Anxiety #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #SpinalStenosis #PTSD
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Hi, my name is Cheryl and I'm here, because I would like to learn about my disorders, illnesses. 🤓Also I'm interested to see/hear/read how others live with them and maybe pick-up advice, recommandations, tips and tricks. 🙂
#MightyTogether #Anxiety #Depression #Fibromyalgia #PTSD #EatingDisorder #OCD #Grief #AnkylosingSpondylitis #IrritableBowelSyndromeIBS #Arthritis #SpinalStenosis #Scoliosis #PanicAttack #PanicDisorder
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