Creating a Pain Management Tool Box
If you were going to create a tool box to manage your pain what would you include in it?
For me, it would have a heating pad and an ice bag for starters. It would have a back scratcher and a few massage tools. I would put some soft music tapes, a couple nice aroma therapy candles. A bottle of bubblebath and a sachet pillow or two that can be warmed or cooled and placed on my neck.
In addition to these things, my pain tool box would hold a favorite chair, a few books to encourage, teach, and support me. It would have a list of phone numbers of special people in my life along with their addresses. I might have photographs of places I have been or places I have yet to go...these instill hope. I have other things in my tool box but I would love to hear what you will put in yours.
How about sharing your ideas and plans with all of us on my Pain Management and Migraine boards, or here in the comments!! I look forward to hearing from you!
Indie
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For me, it would have a heating pad and an ice bag for starters. It would have a back scratcher and a few massage tools. I would put some soft music tapes, a couple nice aroma therapy candles. A bottle of bubblebath and a sachet pillow or two that can be warmed or cooled and placed on my neck.
In addition to these things, my pain tool box would hold a favorite chair, a few books to encourage, teach, and support me. It would have a list of phone numbers of special people in my life along with their addresses. I might have photographs of places I have been or places I have yet to go...these instill hope. I have other things in my tool box but I would love to hear what you will put in yours.
How about sharing your ideas and plans with all of us on my Pain Management and Migraine boards, or here in the comments!! I look forward to hearing from you!
Indie
Related Topics: Video: 4-Legged Physical Therapists, 4 Big Advances Changing Medicine
Technorati Tags: pain management, tools, alternative therapy
2 Comments:
Yay, Indie! This is so important. I had to actually make and post a list of my "tools". Right now I am in a little loop so have to look at the list since my brain feels otherwise occupied, lol. I took over an office for my local DAR group and have been suffering ever since. Getting the books caught up was a lot of intensive work. I enjoyed it but got sucked into the work mode too intently. Now parts of my brain act like they are teaching and are SO tied up. Worked with the pain psych Friday to figure out that there HAS to be a halfway point somewhere so that work can be done without suffering from it! Right now I haven't found that point so I was protecting myself from it til the situation got so dire that I had to jump in and help. I do enjoy trying to help at the migraine board but have to set strict boundaries about doing that, which is difficult--not just the migraine board but boundaries in general. Sigh. Thanks for listening. The blog is great and very helpful. Thank you..sue
Hi, I have suffered from severe headaches evesince I was a teenager. It went on and off over the years. I could go for a very long amount of timewithout attacks.
I found some ways to get rid of the pain before turnin to the medication I had back then. I was on Fiorinal and it just wiped my ass off the map for a whole day so I tried not to have them so much.
When I got in detox at age 18 the attacks came more often but in the end they went away therapy and many many boilling bathtubs later.
I am now 31 and kickin' the drugs out again and them pains came back runnin. I'M on axert now but its no miracle cure, it helps but it takes me 2-3 doses to get rid of a strong attack.
I don't know, I'd like to contact other addicts suffering from migraines when they come clean.
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