“As pain becomes chronic, it is increasingly associated with activity in the affective and motivational systems tied to avoidance and less closely tied to systems encoding nociceptive input” [1] I’ve been on the slippery slope of chronic pain. Minor post surgery issues caused me to change my routine and avoid certain activities which only exacerbated the issues, which led to more avoidance. Eventually I couldn’t walk…
Your method is how I treated pain and it served me well for many years (including broken ankle, countless elbow/wrist/finger injuries), as soon as I could I started movement again, and for tendon injuries even decent intensity seemed to help trigger healing.
That all changed when I tore my achilles, the pain/recovery/etc. process had me doubting everything I knew about recovery and now 14 months later I still question if it needs more rest or more activity or the whole thing is in my head. Ankle/foot injuries seem to have an entirely different approach because standing and walking are so fundamental that you might overdo it just by deciding to make eggs or something.
Hey algo_lover, OP here. Just woke up and this post's traction has surpassed my wildest imagination. Similar to what pedalpete has said, I'm looking to release this in parts to ensure: 1. I am not overwhelming people and losing their interest 2. Quality remains as high as possible (I invested only a few hours into this last week as an experiment). I want this blog to be the most easily accessible, engaging + factual…
Thanks for wanting to help, but: 1. You've lost my interest with no "meat", as the GP stated. 2. There is no "quality" in using a couple thousand words of text to say "I'll be writing about what helped with my chronic pain over time". 3. Here's the signal: I am not in for "weekly" sessions. I do have chronic pain, but what you want to be producing is utterly incompatible with what I need.
here is what helped reduce my chronic neck pain: red meat (beef) with no side dish, eating healthy in general (and I mean truly healthy, not "oh one small candy bar every two days is proably okay..." no, it actually isn't. It's poison.) and exercise, a foam roller, bench press. Also definitely don't eat leafy greens, if you do that then you should stop in my opinion. I can't emphasize enough how important it is to truly eat perfectly. You can't make a single mistake or it will start the sickness cycle again. Not immediately but even a single piece of chocolate will make it so that the body is susceptible to further damage the next day. Then if I eat another piece the second day I'm really risking it and the damage left a hole in my health. I've had multiple instances where I ate a piece of cake and a donut and I was getting sickly with a hot head within 2h. I think it's hard to emphasize enough how important health is, it should be your top hobby to be healthy and eat healthy. It should be your nr.1 pasttime to research health and draw joy from doing health related things.
Hi algo_lover, I also noticed that about the post. The approach being discussed is "pain reprocessing therapy". It was described in a book called The Way Out, by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv. Here's my short summary of the book: - Chronic pain is often generated by the brain, not any actual injury. Not always, but often. Especially if it gets worse during stress or high alert, and especially if the feeling of pain become…
This sounds LLMlish
I found that a lot of advice for working with LLMs is based on asking good questions. This is also good advice for working with people, and for working with yourself.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9550520/ This exercise fixed it for me. I was diagnosed with GERD last year, I already had it for 2-3 years before that, but it got worse last year. I got ppis for a couple of months and when I finished all of them it came back worse. Fortunately I found this article, and I started doing the exercise daily morning after I woke up(and still do it). I can now eat tomatoes, food…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42528399 Since reading the above HN comments, I have lost ten pounds and (mostly) stopped drinking carbonated beverages. My GERD is vastly reduced. ¢¢
I don't see anything about carbonated beverages in those comments? I've had good results with some of the exercises mentioned there, but since then have been in a rut unable to make it stop (my only symptom of GERD is a small persistent cough, which sucks more than it sounds like). I drink a lot of sparkling water though. Do I need to give that up too?
experienced something very similar. thought I would leave my field permanently out of frustration and despair. I like my work now, but faced with that burnout again do not think I could power through it a second time. Apropos, I had chronic pain throughout this experience. I thought it was just aging, irreversible, and something that compounded my hopelessness. It's very surprising to be 10 years older now but feel 2…
I had sciatica for years and inflation in my hips so bad I could barely walk 500 meters while in college. Basically only kept going by iboprufen, naproxen and paracetamol. I tried everything. Acupuncture/LSD/ultra sound/kiro/physio/yoga had mri’s/xrays/you name it I had dr. Sarno’s healing back pain for 2 years on my shelf before I took a holiday and read the whole thing in one go. Fell asleep for 4 hours and woke up…
what exactly was in the book that relieved it for you? I’m curious
I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of ev…
I ended up in a similar situation last year. Amazing job, but typical startup stresses combined with some situational stuff in my personal life (moving, new jobs for partner, kids, day-care changes, etc, etc, etc) left me completely broken. I ended up leaving my job to take care of my family (thought I was done with my career, but it ended up being a sabbatical - back at the old job and doing great now) It took about…