Pain Manager: Guide Posts to Beat Chronic Pain
Written by: shae.mcphaul.mymeds
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010
The key in the downward chronic pain spiral is: AVOID DECONDITIONING. For someone like me, who earlier enjoyed life out of the medical spheres, I unfairly judged other people who seem hobbled in the slow lane as dough boys. But after I became de-conditioned, I humbly learned that without guideposts, anyone in chronic pain can really get stuck.
In the starkest of terms I have listed 8 consequences of deconditioning: muscle deterioration ; stiff joints, loss of calcium from bones, (a recipe for osteoporosis); increased risk of heart illness and diabetes; drop in red blood cells; decrease in making whoopie hormones and creation of swimmers; decreased resistance to infection; obesity and depression.
Deconditioning is a polar contrast to conditioning. Conditioning is a clinical catch-all for all the great things that happen when you are in shape. Below I describe what actually happened to me in the downward spiral of deconditioning. I had no idea I had gotten caught until a relative, who has been fooled also, showed me the guidepost to becoming happy and healthy again.
Imagine me, a zero flab, sacrum-tattooed , athletic and exuberant Sagittarius assuming responsibility for raising an infant grandchild…scraping through a costly divorce and … taking a sit-down computer job with car- commute of 220 kilometers. I also had not yet rehabilitated a limb injury. However, I benefited from tramadol for my pain management.
I want you to recognize the negative cycle in the following group of junctions that I chalked up. Then, you will be able to step in and bust up the old routine and lay in a safe and healthy one. You can reduce your pain on a daily basis…. for the rest of this life. Yes!
Junction1: Inactivity. I registered much pain, so I limited what I would normally do. I broke off my planned trip to the beach because it meant another hour in a car and lifting my baby out of a car seat, which would make me feel even more stiff and sore. I postponed gardening tasks, because just thinking about kneeling and stooping made me tired. I stopped calling my work-out buddies to go ocean swimming because getting in and out of my wet-suit hurt. I turned to tramadol for pain management.
Junction 2: Catching up. I felt okay the next day. I hopped into the car, dropped my little babe at the Kid Zone and got in some reps. I replanted two dozen bulbs. I put on my wetsuit for a Saturday plunge at my favorite beach. Life seemed good again.
Junction 3: Inactivity. After my active and feeling great day, I woke up stiff and sore. "Ow! I did too much," I hollered at myself in the mirror, so I slowed down again and canceled my beach date.
Junction 4: Repeating the cycles. I went through this scenario over and over again trying to adjust to life with chronic pain. It became a deconditioning cycle: I felt better. I did more. I felt worse. I slowed down.
Junction 5: Deconditioning. Bingo, out of the game! De-conditioning resulted as my body suffered. I actually got out of shape in response to my pain. The time I spent slowing down made me depleted and wimpy: what an irony, eh? I attempted protect myself through slowing down, but this inactivity actually hurt and weakened my body. Among other things, it caused my muscles to atrophy, which stone-walled my stamina and brought on exhaustion.
Another danger in the pain cycle is that I began spending more time solo. My bodysurfing buddies didn’t text me anymore because I cancelled one too many outings , so they gave up on me. My family settled for (albeit lovingly) doing things for me and without me. They believed they were helping by playing proxy and no longer expecting me to participate. They didn’t understand that the more helpless I grew, the more pain I would attract.
As a result of all these guide posts and heeding what works, I trust you will avoid the pitfalls.
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