of an average day to see the impact her condition has on her everyday life. i impact her condition has on her everyday life- everyday life. i have ust woken from i everyday life. i have ust woken from a i everyday life. i have ust woken from a really i everyday life. i havejust woken from a really bad | everyday life. i have just i woken from a really bad night of pain. it was like a combined nerve pain and muscle contractions. i m used to it so i go about my day. looking from place to place is taking a lot of pain especially in myjoints but it s kind of flaring up the nerve pain from last night. i got 30 because i m a child. i am still in a lot of pain but at least i habitat in our. really good day but unfortunately my good days come with quite a lot of bad days afterwards. it is like i am being pulled so tight it is like i am being pulled so tight that it is burning. trying tight that it is burning. trying to get to sleep for hours. trying to get to sleep for hours. i tryin
sense of danger and there isn t, so, therefore, that pain signal continues. for isn t, so, therefore, that pain signal continues. signal continues. forjan, the -rocess signal continues. forjan, the process has signal continues. forjan, the process has transformed - signal continues. forjan, the process has transformed her| process has transformed her life. i process has transformed her life. . , . process has transformed her life. ., , , process has transformed her life. ., , i, life. i was and properly still am, to some life. i was and properly still am, to some degree, - life. i was and properly still. am, to some degree, grieving the person that i was. because i am a shell of the person that i am a shell of the person that i used to be. my life revolves around the pain and the medical appointments and ordering prescriptions and it doesn t matter how hard i try. or how much i wish sure pray, it isn t all most likely isn t going to change. i wish i could turn the clock back. but
trying to keep an open mind. i think the understanding we have i think the understanding we have of i think the understanding we have of pain will take a long time have of pain will take a long time to have of pain will take a long time to filter through, and attitudes will change as well. if attitudes will change as well. if you attitudes will change as well. if you understand that pain is something that is modifiable and we something that is modifiable and we can make changes to it, and we can make changes to it, and we and we can make changes to it, and we can and we can make changes to it, and we can be empowered to do those and we can be empowered to do those kind and we can be empowered to do those kind of things. it may not completely get rid of pain but when we understand how to deal with but when we understand how to deal with this in a different way deal with this in a different way we deal with this in a different way we will be much better place way w
normal things that we should be providing, whether the of us who go to our gp with a problem, connect with chronic pain that actually we aren t surprised when somebody wants to talk to us about something other than medicines.- other than medicines. people tell me i look other than medicines. people tell me i look well other than medicines. people tell me i look well and i other than medicines. people tell me i look well and they i tell me i look well and they see me tell me i look well and they see me. when i m wearing make up. see me. when i m wearing make uu and see me. when i m wearing make up. and my see me. when i m wearing make up. and my pain level is a level up. and my pain level is a level four. up. and my pain level is a levelfour. but up. and my pain level is a level four. but they don t see me when level four. but they don t see me when i m flaring, when i m inagony. me when i m flaring, when i m in agony, crying because eigenvalue move and my medication isn t h
chronic pain. it s not something chronic pain. it s not something that - chronic pain. it s not something that is i chronic pain. it s not - something that is commonly talked about. people get on with it and it gets to a point that people become incredibly disabled and distressed and i don t think we are equipped over as a society or as a healthcare over as a society or as a healthca re system to over as a society or as a healthcare system to deal with that pain, you probally know the prevalence of pain is anything between 20% at 50% in the uk and we know that it s massive. the uk and we know that it s massive- massive. well as an issue affecting massive. well as an issue affecting millions - massive. well as an issue affecting millions of- massive. well as an issue i affecting millions of people, chris says the mechanism of how persistent pain works is not well understood. for example, if we have well understood. for example, if we have pain well understood. for example, if w