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Tag: chronic pain

Breaking Through the Pain

Breaking Through The Pain

Posted on November 12, 2021August 12, 2025

It’s finally starting to happen, I think. Yesterday was the first day that the soft muscle tissue around my spine started to hold, and rather than getting electrocuted with nerve pain all over, I just feel really sore on my insides, if that makes any sense. This is also the first day I’m not nervous…

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Fight for the Smiles, Life Is Happening Now

Posted on May 5, 2021October 20, 2025

Things go wrong in our lives and sometimes we wish we could just get away for awhile. Erase the past and get a redo. Take a timeout. Retreat. I know for me, chronic nerve pain has been a noose around my neck that has made me wave the white flag of retreat more than once….

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A Year Sleeping On the Couch

Posted on April 29, 2021September 6, 2025

No, my wife didn’t kick me out of the bedroom. I didn’t do anything wrong or anything like that. But for the last year, longer actually, I’ve had to sleep on the couch because of this nerve pain I’m dealing with. Turns out the only way I can get comfortable enough for some precious hours…

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Shut Up Banana, I’m in Control

Posted on April 28, 2021November 17, 2021

My battle with chronic pain has led me to try anything and everything for help. Acupuncture, elimination diets, massage therapy, physical therapy, mental therapy, pharmaceutical medications, herbal medications, CBD, melatonin, corticosteroids, you name it — none of them have solved the problem. Several of them even made the pain much, much worse. I’m looking at…

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