Category: Pain Management
Can you see pain?
Different ways to see pain, even when your condition is invisible Can you see pain? It’s a tricky question! Pain is such a complex and subjective experience, and the word “pain” covers a whole host of very different experiences. It gets even more complicated when you’re talking about chronic pain or illness. It’s not like…
The Best Type of Heat To Help You Feel Better
Types of heat & how each helps pain differently Living with chronic pain can feel like an endless battle, but sometimes, the simplest solutions can offer the most profound relief. Heat therapy may be a time-honored tradition in pain management, but your options have evolved far beyond the humble hot water bottle. Let’s look at…
Migraine Relief W/o Meds: A Huge List of Stuff to Help Your Headache
The ultimate guide to stuff that might make migraines more manageable Stuff to help your migraine… that you can get over the counter?! Yeeeah, seems like a “I’ll believe it when I see(/feel) it” situation. For my entire life I’ve dealt with migraine disease, tension headaches, and sinus headaches so bad I had one surgery…
Exactly what to say to your doctor to get refills on the meds you need
Urgent med refill? Learn how to effectively communicate with your doctor and pharmacy, track prescriptions, and get quick refills. Includes printable script!
For National Mental Health Month, 6 beautiful poems about mental health & chronic pain– & despite them!
Chronic pain & mental health poems that are wise, not sappy Poems about mental health, chronic pain or other invisible disabilities, just like quotes on the subject, tend to be sappy as hell (except those quote pages I put together, of course). And that is extremely not my jam. But something doesn’t have to be…
10 Quotes About Chronic Pain & Joy to Motivate Your New Year & Beyond
Inspirational quotes about chronic pain that actually resonate with what we’re going through can be hard as hell to find. Living with constant pain or chronic illness is a tough slog, rougher than “able-bodied” people can ever know. Finding the joy in a life filled with pain is more difficult for us, but it’s also…
Surprise friends w/ The Most Useful Gifts For People With Fibromyalgia This Holiday Season
Gifts for people with fibromyalgia aren’t hard to come up with: you just have to put yourself in their shoes. (Hopefully, cute ones.) Though fibro is an invisible disability, that doesn’t make its effects, like chronic widespread pain, fatigue, sleep issues, and sensitivity to movement and environmental stimuli, any less real. If you had those…
Cool Canes For Chronic Pain: Coming soon!