Chronic Pain and Diabetes

Chronic Pain and Diabetes

One of the groups of people who are particularly challenged with chronic pain is diabetics.  Diabetics of course are dealing with elevated blood sugars and sometimes with a lot of complications from those elevated blood sugars.

One of the key components to a diabetic being in good control is developing a good exercise program.   Good exercise generally means regular daily exercise.   This is crucial because it improves the ability of insulin to work in the body (reverses insulin resistance) and also burns extra calories.  

Now if you have a lot of pain as people with chronic pain do, it can be a real challenge to exercise regularly.  Paradoxically, regular exercise can help reduce the pain in chronic pain! 

I have long promoted a strategy that uses a water based exercise program for this dilemma.  In essence it kills 2 birds with one stone.   It helps to control the diabetes and it helps to decrease the chronic pain.

Before we go much farther though I should define things:  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.

More recently I have been promoting nutritional strategies to complement the control of chronic pain and there have been some exciting new discoveries surfacing.

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 ahold of this nutrient.

Fortunately this nutrient can now be obtained through a whole food in drink form that actually tastes good.  You can read the story about this very powerful nutrient and how it might help chronic pain at this site.   Be sure to go there now to learn new chronic pain strategies.

 

Stanley Lang

Whole health wellness coach

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