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Not really, spent 3 years trying to get it diagnosed and/or find something that helps, as it gradually got worse and worse. I'm on like 3 different pills that are supposed to help these issues and i'm still at a 7 most of the time.
Been to see a few doctors, found one eventually who basically told me it's stress, and i think i'm finally accepting that's the answer, even though that makes it a death sentence because i can't reverse the stress, so the pain will just keep getting worse. And i refuse to live like that.
Been to see a few doctors, found one eventually who basically told me it's stress, and i think i'm finally accepting that's the answer, even though that makes it a death sentence because i can't reverse the stress, so the pain will just keep getting worse. And i refuse to live like that.
Mmm you can reverse stress, or at least improve it. I used to be a much more stressed person than I am : I could throw up, have migraines, panicking, crying and many other things. But I handle it much better today most of the time. Sticking to some mindfulness routine can help, going on vacation... Figuring out what causes the stress and working on it. 
I am going to use this thread for tortures other then pain. If this is a problem, let me know. But I have been dealing with dizziness and tingling and numbness in limbs for many weeks now. Doctor has not been of much help. Just want to say that today has been about a five. Its kind of like a panic attack that goes on for hours. Dizziness is much worse when I move around. I really don't know how you guys live with your extreme pain for so many years. I can hardly stand this.
we learn to decrease pain as much as possible and try to live with the rest of it the best we can. we try to find joy as much as possible. I live in 5or 6 range with the morphine and spikes to 8 or 9 and rarely 10, I have break through meds when it spikes. sometimes if i'm having a good day I can plan my meds right and get to a 4. there are people a lot worse off than me so I try to do my best. whatever hand you're dealt you have to first, get the doctors to help you and actually listen to you. then do the best you can sometimes you have to fight to do things. i'm sorry you're suffering so much and I hope the doctors find a solution to cure or help your condition. and what you're going through is the same as pain so you're in the right thread. can I ask how old you are generally? feel free not to answer. mike 
Because i believe this is 24 years of stress catching up to me at last. So to make it stop i would somehow have to reduce my stress more than i've managed to over the last 8 years of therapy and self-improvement. Because stress is an integral part of who i am, i've always been an extremely highly-strung person, and i really believe i'm incapable of turning it off. And because it's causing me intense pain just from the stress of living every day, so i dread to think how much worse it would get if i tried to return to uni, or got a job, considering my last attempt at attending uni is what got me from it being troublesome to straight-up unbearable.
What's the alternative though? Never get a degree? Never get a job? Just spend the rest of my life stuck in bed constantly, desperately trying to endure and manage the pain? I can't win here. All i can do is decide when to stop fighting it.
Anyway, i don't want to clog up this thread with my conversation, so i'll stop there.
Anyway, i don't want to clog up this thread with my conversation, so i'll stop there.
It doesn't mean it can never happen, but you can't keep pushing yourself when you are already dealing with so much. And you aren't clogging up the thread, it's the place to talk about these issues. But I can understand if talking might not help, because I know there's no easy solution for all of this.
Thank you, it is better today. But I worry because it is recurring pain. In middle school they seemed to think I had scoliosis, and a physical therapist said my back would be bad off by the time I was 21 and would need surgery on it. Thankfully that never happened, but I feel the pain gets worse and more prominent with age, and I have no idea what causes it.
I don't know. Everyone replies to me saying these things by talking like it's going to get better. And for 3 years i believed the same. But i just can't any more. It isn't going to get better. This will never stop, and i don't have it in me any more to pretend that it will. Believe me, i've tried to solve it. But that just isn't going to happen, as much as i or others may wish it would.
My entire life has been a battle with constantly declining health, most likely due to the stress, and after watching myself get worse and worse over the course of about 16 years, i just can't believe that decline won't continue. There has to come a point where you draw the line and accept that you're just not going to get better.
My entire life has been a battle with constantly declining health, most likely due to the stress, and after watching myself get worse and worse over the course of about 16 years, i just can't believe that decline won't continue. There has to come a point where you draw the line and accept that you're just not going to get better.