Chronic Pain - All People Who Are Interested In "interstitial cystitis"

ihydenout

Former ER nurse, now a stay at home mom to 3 and happily married

posted 01/29/2009, comment (1)

When nobody can help you with your pain

Chronic pain, we all have it and most of us take medications to try and lead as normal a life as possible but what do you when pain strikes that your medication cannot touch. I have been on medication for a few years now for several painful autoimmune disorders and I have good days and bad days but in the last year I get an... Read more Chevron

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Kiviana

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Reading, Writing, video games, and theatre take my mind off pain.

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posted 01/25/2009, comment (1)

Giving up Chocolate...For good.

I have Interstital Cystitis, so chocolate is really bad for me and has even worse side effects. The problem with chocolate is I have been eating it for 21 years now, many of those years without the problems it now causes. Knowing its bad for me, and feeling the pain from it doesn't just teach me a lesson, likely everyone else would learn their... Read more Chevron

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Marguerite Guzman Bouvard

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author of 16 books, including Healing: A Life with Chronic Illnes

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posted 09/10/2008, comments (0)

The Faith of the Body and Landing. Two poems.

Marguerite Guzman Bouvard is the author of 6 books of poetry and several books in the fields of human rights, grief and illness. She is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. The Faith of the Body if you cannot fly sometimes it is enough to sway like the... Read more Chevron

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posted 03/08/2008, comments (4)

Not Living With Pain, but Dying a Little Every Day!

For many years...probably more than twenty, I have experienced pain on a daily basis. In the beginning, I almost did not realize that it was there. Eventually, I believed it was normal to hurt everyday. As time went on, and years past...I finally realized that it was not normal for a person to experience pain on any level every single day of their... Read more Chevron

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ICsmiles

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posted 09/20/2007, comment (1)

When Pain Comes

My Unexpected TeacherWhen pain comesI can always depend on DexterOur fiercely adoring prince of the terriers, king of the block.Proudly monitoring the back yard,guarding us from squirrels and birds.Ready to love with an eager heartand wagging tail. Instant pain relief. SharonInterstitial Cystitis > 12 years

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