Information and opinions on health from grzes024 at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/131257/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/131257/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/131257/index http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/131257/94124/calling Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:35:57 -0500 grzes024 25 with osteoarthritis isn't very normal. And well, very often I get treated like a 25 year old who doesn't have the analgous hip of a 65 year old. Nor am I often give the patience needed for someone who's constantly having hip spasms, muscle aches and sharp pains. This was proven to me 3 days after my 25th birthday. I was fired from my first job.   Everything started about 6 months in when I was told that i'd passed the probitionary... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/131257/94124/calling http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/131257/91008/distracting Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:04:32 -0400 grzes024 I probably have six or seven spasms a day. They range from just a little annoying to moderately painful - nothing ever too horribly excruciating but they can be incredibly distracting. My job requires, on top of all this project managing stuff, that I be both creative (designing) and analytical (programming). When I'm programming I can sort of work through the pain of it all... it's not so much a problem. But when i'm designing it's so hard to... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/131257/91008/distracting http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/131257/88662/business Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:20:26 -0400 grzes024 I've grown up with chronic pain. The constant ache in my lower body was something so familiar to me that I thought it was normal. I remember being shocked in first grade to learn that most kids hadn't spent their early childhoods in traction and having surgeries on a 3 month schedule. It's a pain i've had forever, i don't know life without it. It's an issue, it holds me back but it's also inspired me to work hard, work over it and achieve my... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/131257/88662/business