Chronic Pain and Creating a New Life

Chronic Pain and Creating a New Life

Unfortunately many people in this life must deal with something called “chronic pain”.  These people often experience an abrupt and sometimes permanent change in their life.  They are unable to play with their kids, recreate with their spouse, enjoy any recreation.

In some cases the chronic pain patient loses the chance to continue their work--- permanently.   This latter change sometimes causes the biggest effect on a sense of self-worth.   Losing the ability to provide for self and/or family has an lasting negative effect on some people.   In a sense it’s a little like a person losing their job from downsizing and having no prospect of getting re-hired.   This person often has to choose between staying put and being chronically unemployed or moving across the country to get a new job.  This “starting over” can be very intimidating and very often people will not make the move.  A person with chronic pain often feels the same.   They really don’t want to leave their old job and learn something new--- yet it becomes their only real option.

It feels a little like creating a new life--- this can be exciting -- or it can be intimidating, but it really is the only way for them to have a new life.   Even so, they are still dealing with the chronic pain and there is still a need to try to treat and control it as this person tries to build a new life.  Finding ways to control the pain that allows even the increased activity of re-training is crucial to the success of “creating a new life”.    But before we go on to that subject we need to ask what is Chronic Pain anyway?

Well, we all know what pain is.   But what is chronic pain?    Well the purpose of pain is to help us avoid bad things happening to our body.  When an injury happens, things hurt.  That’s the way it’s supposed to be.  That is called “acute pain”. 

Chronic pain, however, is pain that lasts well after the 6 week time that it should normally take for an injury to get better.   Some would say that you can’t call it chronic pain until it has lasted for 3 months.   Either way the pain is lasting well after the injury.

There are many medical strategies to try to help deal with chronic pain and it is absolutely crucial that anybody who has chronic pain seek medical attention to figure out why they have it and what can be done about it.   Nobody--- and I repeat nobody--- should ever deal with their chronic pain using alternative strategies until they have had a thorough evaluation. 

Unfortunately for many people, after the evaluation there is the reality that their chronic pain is still with them.   It just stays and stays and stays.   In that case it becomes very reasonable to pursue alternative strategies as long as they are safe. 

I have discovered that a very powerful nutrient grown right in the Sonoran Desert called “betalains” may help to decrease chronic pain.   At least that’s been the experience of some people who have been fortunate enough to get a hold of this nutrient.

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Stanley Lang

Wellness Mentor, Health Coach

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