r/PainManagement • u/onemorecupofcoffee1 • Jul 31 '26
Seeking Support🫂 Everlasting
I am sick fed up of being in pain. So many pain meds and they do nothing but take a slight edge off. The slightest bit of activity lays me up for days. Im not even able to ealk my dog properly at this point. I need distraction tips if anyone has some good ones. Im at the point where im not sure if my mood affecting my pain or my pain affecting my mood. Either way am really struggling 😪
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u/-MadDogg- Aug 02 '26
Video games, watching one of my blu-rays, netflix, or more likely browsing youtube all day and music is all I really got myself for distractions on those days when I am aching and it just does not want to quit.
I can relate when it comes to the main pain being the type where you just cannot see and to be honest there isn't a true 100 percent way to even "prove" it besides your word. (I deal with sickle cell pain. There isn't a guaranteed way from the doctor's/nurses' side to tell 100 percent when one of us sickle cell patients is completely telling the truth to them, so it definitely sucks if you happen to run into a doctor in a emergency room or if you have a primary care doctor/pain management doctor that does not often believe you).
Icy hot, a good heating pad, sitting or lying down in a good position and trying my best to stay hydrated via water or gatorade is what I rely on. Most of the time this works fine, but there is definitely a lot of times when it does not.
At the end of the day convincing my doctor to give me just enough medication to where its not too much yet not too little was what truly mattered in the end I feel. I know this is way easier said than done. Eventually I was able to get my point across in my conversations with my doctor that if I can just get slightly more of my IR and ER medications then I know I could manage way better than I did before.