Living with Chronic Pain: When Discomfort Becomes Normal

Yes! But when someone genuinely asks about something, I start describing the pain and either I start crying without really knowing why - or the words just come out and sound so horrible that it’s comical and I break down laughing.

Yeah I think if most people had to deal with the level of pain we all deal with on a daily basis, they’d completely shut down.

I feel if I tell them all of my aches and pains, they will put me in a padded room

Yes. All my symptoms, not just pain. I've gotten so use to them it's normal to me. Yeah I have pain that is so bad I have to wake up in the middle of the night to take medication, but it's my normal. I've been doing it for 3 years. So I've gotten to the point I forget to bring it up at doctors appointments.

All the time! It's like, "yeh, I feel like I got hit by a truck, but it's just another Tuesday."