Living with Chronic Pain: My Story

Hi, how are things? As you see from my list of health issues they seem to cluster around the same thing and inflammation is key. I have been in pain management since 2000 after a failed back surgery and then the hardware was removed a year later and then a neck surgery a year after that. I don’t talk about the back to much but because of it, I now have been diagnosed with all of this other stuff. I had MRSA and right after that diagnosis I started getting issues with arthritis and such. As I am sure you go through the anxiety and depression of when is this all going to end. When I flare it’s a sleep marathon for days. I can’t do much of anything because of the fatigue I feel. The things I once had interest in doing comes and goes. I am on a prednisone taper and I feel like a brand new person. I have been able to cook and bake get some crafts done but I know next week when I am off of the prednisone I could go into a flare again. This whole health issue has caused so many sleepless nights, crying, unable to socialize, it gets old after awhile. I hope that I can connect with more than one of you that I may be able to learn from each of you. God is important in my life and I do stand on his word , but sometimes it is so hard.