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skubaloob t1_j09m5mj wrote

Mind blowing that only 1 in 10 people are experiencing physical pain. Not a day goes by I don’t experience physical pain. Are 9/10 people really not feeling pain most of the time?

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izzo34 t1_j09ykso wrote

Am 41 and am all fucked up physically. One doctor was kind enough to give me 2 pain meds a day. But we moved and now nobody is willing to do it. I've been thru physical therapy, I do the things they suggest. But it doesn't help. So I just have to live with it until I die. Unless I get cancer. Then they said they would help.

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GoinWithThePhloem t1_j0aie6f wrote

35 and I had this same thought the other day. I have some genetic build issues, 3 major knee surgeries and some sort of mystery shoulder problem that causes me more pain/frustration than everything (it aches when I sleep, when I reddit, when I work out, when I stand there ... ALL THE TIME). I’ve done all required PT plus some, and I’m still dealing wirh a lot of imbalanced pain all over my body. I was sitting in my car with my shoulder throbbing thinking, “this is going to be the rest of my life.” Even if I end up finding the cause of my shoulder problems.. what are they going to do? Rehab it? Perform surgery? My knees are a mess, and those have both been fixed I’m still very active, yet i can’t help but be frustrated.

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kobemustard t1_j0bo7qg wrote

I had problems in shoulders and other joints and I think a lot of this is inflamed tendons but I think I have a genetic predisposition to develop inflamed tendons. Try and dig around that area and feel for a muscle band that is tight. Then keep massaging it until it softens. Another thing I’ve found is if a movement hurts the tendons aren’t moving properly, in my head I see this as the tendons not gliding past each other smoothly. I try and overload it to basically force that area to move Work it until it really hurts and repeat it as much as possible. Takes a month but this has fixed a lot of issues that have come up for me.

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Ragnakak t1_j0aa333 wrote

What is the origin/cause of the pain?

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Saryrn13 t1_j0ayqh3 wrote

It helps pain but as a chronic pain patient it doesn't do what we need it to. It just makes us hate life a little less and makes the pain minorly easier to deal with...

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GhostlyImage t1_j0b6pdn wrote

When I tried weed for pain after breaking my hand it made me hyper focused on that pain to where it was the only thing I could feel like it was a candle in my body's darkness.

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TheKrononaut t1_j0ax7uq wrote

I'm 28 and I experience the occasional back pain or headache but im surprised to hear people are just experiencing pain like all the time? What kinda pain are we talking? Muscle pain? Joints?

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angerpoop t1_j0b09te wrote

For me (29F), I'm clumsy, I bump into things a lot, I get paper cuts at work. :(

On a more serious note though, I have carpal tunnel which I do feel most days during winter, but that's a manageable pain (for now!).

For chronic pain, I have arthritis in my lower spine, as well as 2 degenerating discs, and dealing with the pain from that at its worst (so far) was... debilitating, really. Being awake was painful. Getting out of bed was extremely difficult because of pain. The process of sitting down hurt the worst, so using the restroom sucked. I had to sleep a certain way in bed to not be in pain. Being in constant pain is depressing and puts you in a VERY dark place, at least it did for me. It's very limiting, I couldn't do basic tasks without being in excruciating pain, and I just wanted to cease to exist because I felt like nothing would fix it and I would be in pain forever. Fortunately, physical therapy is amazing and helped tremendously and I am no longer in constant pain! But yeah every day pain sucks!

Also, how young is "young" with these statistics? ;-;

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BabylonSuperiority t1_j0bf3d9 wrote

25 here, I am. Physical labour/work will do that to you, even after just a few years. Id be happy to elaborate and be more specific if you're interested.

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Saryrn13 t1_j0bh2ic wrote

Just a note, it's been approximately 3 hours since I wrote this reply. I'm still in bed, still awake after multiple times of trying to sleep, I've taken the medication I'm allowed to take. And I'm still in a level of pain high enough that I can't even relax to rest. Much less think about sleep.

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LordCrag t1_j0ahxq9 wrote

What level of pain is required to meet that threshold? Most days I have a mild headache that goes way with OTC pain meds. But I wouldn't call that chronic pain per se.

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glowstatic t1_j0ajngy wrote

Honestly I think this is really hard to gauge. I found out recently I’m not supposed to have headaches and neck pain 4x a week. Turns out what I was writing off as “headaches” are actually neuralgic migraines, I’ve been having them for about 5 years and just thought that was normal. Life is much cooler when you’re not in pain all the time, weirdly enough. So I think…. If the headaches are disrupting your enjoyment of your life on a regular basis that’s worth talking to a doctor about.

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smokeymcdugen t1_j0b2tis wrote

Get help. You should rarely have headaches. It's either something mild and fixable like eye prescription (can happen even if you see more or less clearly) or as serious as a brain tumor.

Typically if you don't have other symptoms and you are young, PCP will send you to optometrist first before and scans.

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CogInTheWheel t1_j0amg0p wrote

What? I'm blown away that you (and 1 in 10) do. Because I don't experience persistent physical pain and that's with me having a myriad of major health issues. What causes your pain? Any idea?

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BigCommieMachine t1_j0c0atm wrote

There is some literature that says only approximately between 64-77% of people experience a headache in their life.

That means on the high end, 1/4 of people have NEVER had a headache, which is just mind blowing.

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Joebebs t1_j0awd0h wrote

I didn’t even know this was a thing….

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