Chronic pain

The Mighty community shares the "hacks" they use to make life with chronic pain easier.

The “normal” pain scale does not work for those with a chronic illness or chronic pain, since most of us, at baseline, have some sort of pain or discomfort. When asked “on a scale of 1-10, what is your pain”, we often get weird looks when we say anything above 5, and when we try to explain what we mean, they are skeptical. I made this pain scale to help better explain our levels of pain at different numbers ⤵️ 1️⃣ pain not super noticeable 2️⃣ a little more noticeable 3️⃣ can mostly push...

With chronic pain, we get stuck in 2 different cycles: a chronic pain cycle and a pain-fear cycle. It is possible to heal from chronic pain by retraining our brains. A large part of this is reducing fear. Easier said than done, right?! As a chronic pain recovery coach who has experienced this first-hand I have many tools and techniques to help you reduce the fear and learn how to recover.

"People don't know that's the reason why I do these things..."

There are severe side effects from untreated chronic pain. Thanks to the opioid crisis, pain patients are suffering without treatment

Vital differences between coping and adapting to life with a chronic illness you need to know to live better today and tomorrow.

There are an estimated 100 million Americans who live with chronic pain. Let’s say that for every person who lives with it there is one who loves that person – whether it’s a spouse, a parent, a child, or a friend. That’s another 100 million. Now, you can’t know what it’s like living with it unless you do, and understanding what it’s like living with chronic pain dramatically affects how you treat someone who lives with it.