I was around 17 years old when the car I was a passenger in was hit head on by an oncoming vehicle and ended up with my back being hurt so that over the years I still have issues if I stand or sit too long in one spot.
LaPiuOPCopenhagen, Capital Region Denmark494 posts
Ccincy: I was around 17 years old when the car I was a passenger in was hit head on by an oncoming vehicle and ended up with my back being hurt so that over the years I still have issues if I stand or sit too long in one spot.
CC, you're a surviver, just like me!
When I was 18, I crashed a car in a wall with 40 mph and no seat belt, my side of the car hit first; car was like cut in half, so grateful to be here in one piece today!!! Got whiplash, but living with it fine.
Generally I am not good at driving, made MANY minor accidents, so mostly get driven or walk now
Dec, 1959..I was hit by a car crossing the street. I was nine years old with a fractured skull. I spent that Christmas in the hospital. Hey, it was just a thing!
LaPiuOPCopenhagen, Capital Region Denmark494 posts
sergio09: Dec, 1959..I was hit by a car crossing the street. I was nine years old with a fractured skull. I spent that Christmas in the hospital. Hey, it was just a thing!
Just a thing...!!! We're pretty tough cookies, us CS'ers, all the little and major bumps helped make us the super women & men we are today!!!
I have never been in physical pain. Very high tolerance myself, I do not process sensory information in a typical way....and yes, it scares me that much. Don´t want to think about that.
Cachuchi: I have never been in physical pain. Very high tolerance myself, I do not process sensory information in a typical way....and yes, it scares me that much. Don´t want to think about that.
You've given birth, don't tell me you didn't at least break a sweat
jac_the_gripper: .... You never experience more pain than you can cope with. When pain becomes intolerable, you die.
I choose to disagree. It can be intolerable, and that is where coma and morphine come in. After that, it's mental. You just tell yourself it's an electrical impulse, you know about it, so ignore it.
I had a 4m ladder fall to hardpacked ground at age 50. Broke pelvis (what would happen giving birth with no time nor prep), all of the L and P bones in lower back and all my ribs. When stabilized 3 days later, flown to the big city for orthopedics. Had a hematoma in my crotch from internal injuries the size of a basketball. That shut off circulation and and eventually killed the nerves in my right leg.
Long story short, 6 weeks in ICU, mostly out. Three more months and I was learning to walk again. Home in six months, still on IV everything with a PIC line. Pain would have been 10 without morphine. PT went on for three years, but got it all back. Left the pain drugs behind and endured at level 4-5 with only ibuprofen, so I could resume flying and working.
Yeah, I can snivel about minor things now. But look at it this way. I died three times and cheated Mr Death. I can walk as much as I want now, do anything I like, and I have control of my muscles.
Until I retired last year, I out-everythinged all my 20- and 30-something workers. Now I am just doing things I enjoy, and I expect it to continue for a good while.
I was lucky. Nerves reconnected and everything grew back, except for some internal organs that died from trauma. I have some cool scars to impress people with. So if you are suffering with chronic pain, look inside yourself and reprogram your brain. Best wishes!
LaPiuOPCopenhagen, Capital Region Denmark494 posts
Chris8739: I choose to disagree. It can be intolerable, and that is where coma and morphine come in. After that, it's mental. You just tell yourself it's an electrical impulse, you know about it, so ignore it.
I had a 4m ladder fall to hardpacked ground at age 50. Broke pelvis (what would happen giving birth with no time nor prep), all of the L and P bones in lower back and all my ribs. When stabilized 3 days later, flown to the big city for orthopedics. Had a hematoma in my crotch from internal injuries the size of a basketball. That shut off circulation and and eventually killed the nerves in my right leg.
Long story short, 6 weeks in ICU, mostly out. Three more months and I was learning to walk again. Home in six months, still on IV everything with a PIC line. Pain would have been 10 without morphine. PT went on for three years, but got it all back. Left the pain drugs behind and endured at level 4-5 with only ibuprofen, so I could resume flying and working.
Yeah, I can snivel about minor things now. But look at it this way. I died three times and cheated Mr Death. I can walk as much as I want now, do anything I like, and I have control of my muscles.
Until I retired last year, I out-everythinged all my 20- and 30-something workers. Now I am just doing things I enjoy, and I expect it to continue for a good while.
I was lucky. Nerves reconnected and everything grew back, except for some internal organs that died from trauma. I have some cool scars to impress people with. So if you are suffering with chronic pain, look inside yourself and reprogram your brain. Best wishes!
Chris, you are a walking miracle !!!
I got whiplash & I take migraine medicin & get injections with lidocaine around every 3 weeks - I am probably just not as pain resistant as you, but I got less pain during the last couple of years so thats good!
Thanks for sharing your story, very inspirational - where there's a will, there's a way
LaPiu: I got whiplash & I take migraine medicine & get injections with lidocaine around every 3 weeks - I am probably just not as pain resistant as you, but I got less pain during the last couple of years so thats good!
Thanks for sharing your story, very inspirational - where there's a will, there's a way
Yes, LP, that is the thing. It's not absolute. And with your mind in the right place, you CAN train yourself.
Neck and lower back are just extensions of each other. So when it's bugging you, get in the most comfortable place you can. Use your mind to find the originating area. Visualize the circuit. Tell yourself that it's just electrical noise.
After a little while, drop it and resort to your usual method of relief. Rome was not conquered in a day. Pay attention to how the relief is kicking in.
As you do this, you will get more aware of what I'm saying. You might try a half dose after a while and see how that works. The idea is that your familiarity with it breeds the kind of thing you described, getting less pain over time.
I'd drop the -caine solutions as soon as you can. If I could go off IV morphine to tablets to nothing in a month, you can too. It has nothing to do with pain resistance, it's all about will power.
Oh yeah, on the opioids and -caine solutions, you will never get addicted as long as what you are taking is matching your pain -- it consumes it. The human tendency is to want more, but the reality is that you need less. Excess feeds an addiction.
Good luck, and if you want to take this offlist, PM me.
Third degree burns on my hands and feet at the age of 11 months, everything after that was a breeze. Hope to live, the faith to know I would and the grace to be thankful for the life I live know.
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NAKEDMUDPEOPLE: Third degree burns on my hands and feet at the age of 11 months, everything after that was a breeze. Hope to live, the faith to know I would and the grace to be thankful for the life I live know.
sounds nasty!
and YES you get more grateful for living once you have a survived an accident
LaPiuOPCopenhagen, Capital Region Denmark494 posts
Chris8739: Yes, LP, that is the thing. It's not absolute. And with your mind in the right place, you CAN train yourself.
Neck and lower back are just extensions of each other. So when it's bugging you, get in the most comfortable place you can. Use your mind to find the originating area. Visualize the circuit. Tell yourself that it's just electrical noise.
After a little while, drop it and resort to your usual method of relief. Rome was not conquered in a day. Pay attention to how the relief is kicking in.
As you do this, you will get more aware of what I'm saying. You might try a half dose after a while and see how that works. The idea is that your familiarity with it breeds the kind of thing you described, getting less pain over time.
I'd drop the -caine solutions as soon as you can. If I could go off IV morphine to tablets to nothing in a month, you can too. It has nothing to do with pain resistance, it's all about will power.
Oh yeah, on the opioids and -caine solutions, you will never get addicted as long as what you are taking is matching your pain -- it consumes it. The human tendency is to want more, but the reality is that you need less. Excess feeds an addiction.
Good luck, and if you want to take this offlist, PM me.
Gotta admit I feel lucky that a fairly low amount of pills etc helps me & then I actually feel that my life is so demanding that I dont have the patience etc for the very cool exercise you mention - maybe in a few years
I have been lucky and have never been seriously injured. My worst injuries were sports injuries, couple of black eyes when I was hit in the face by the hockey ball, some sprains and strains from long distance running, Probably the worst was a rotator cuff & contusion [martial arts] and concussion from ramping....seriously, what WAS I thinking?
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