#pain sucks

[neonleonsmessymindpalace]

Just a disclaimer, when I said

'Pain is funny'

I didn't mean it

✨️Literally ✨️

[viaravt]

I'm sure there have been studies on this and I would love it if anyone could link me to them, but constant pain, 24 hrs a day, fucks with your head.

I'm on day 6 of being stuck in bed with an arthritis flare and I've been trying to record my pain reach day so that I can talk to my rheumatologist about it when I see him next. And it's been so hard because every single day, I think to myself, 'from 1 to 10, 10 being the worst person ever, how was today?'

And you know what my answer is every single time?

'Welllll, it wasn't that bad.'

And every day I have to ask myself, 'self if it really 'wasn't that bad,' then why did we have to stay in bed all day? Did we choose to do so? Are we truly that lazy?' And I have to push through all the internalized ableism to even let myself look at the pain.

Only then can I start to think about putting a number to it.

And then I realize...I don't know what not being in pain feels like anymore? Like, I can't conceptualize the 1 on the scale, but I know I'm not at a 10 because I assume I'd probably be nonfunctioning if I was.

And the whole time I'm trying to figure all this out, there's a red light flashing and a siren going off that just says "I HURT" over and over again.

[labelleizzy]

Today I need:

A shower

A hug that lasts for an hour

A painkiller that lasts for six hours.

Maybe an upgraded chassis would be nice.

/cranky

[anadorablekiwi]

*Rolls up sleeves*

*Deep inhale*

❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤 🤍 🤎❤️ 🧡 💛 💚

I love you I love you I love youuuuuuu!!! (/plat) Thank you for standing up for your needs and letting us know you're having a hard time!

~ 🌲

It's a good thing I'm a West Coaster and a night owl. I get to see the things that people post late at night.

Thank you dear 💜💙💜💙🫂🫂 I love you too /platypus

Reaching out and asking for emotional reassurance/support/love is really hard for me, but its worse when i don’t and just suffer alone. So ive gotten better about it (on tumblr at least)

[jennyandvastraflint]

Damn the medication on an empty stomach makes everything hurt...

There's a REASON medication should be taken with meals and I'm stupid. (aka I can't think beyond "This'll make pain go away" until my body then starts revolting because I haven't eaten anything yet)

[reasonsilovemywife]

In my feels a little

Years of hard work, neglecting and abusing my body have left me sort of twisted out of true, no longer capable of holding my regular shape or serving my regular purpose.  And yet I spin, round and round in the same familiar groove.  There’s no way to escape, and not sure I would want to, not without breaking myself completely.   So I cling on, doing my best to avoid being in the way too much.  Growing thicker, paler, getting slower until one day, hopefully many years from now, I’ll stop.

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

Doctor: try to eat more greens. They should help with your endometriosis symptoms.

Me: I hate greens.

Doctor: if you put them in a smoothie, you can add fruits to it and it helps with the taste.

Me, after a week of drinking green smoothies: well, whaddya know? I actually feel better.

Also me: I still hate greens.

[joey394]

I just discovered that you’re not supposed to put nair on your armpits the hard way. It’s painful and slightly raw. 😭😭

[themarvelwitch]

i love it when my body just decides it's at war with itself

[bardsexlovers]

Rose, tending to Dave's wounds: How would you rate your pain?

 Dave: Zero stars. Would NOT recommend.

[tumble-tv]

SAY IT WITH ME: MEDICAL GASLIGHTING IS MALPRACTICE

[fantasypreferred]

Tonight has been a rough night. A couple of episodes and painful lingering after-effects have left me exhausted but unable to find rest. Days like this make me want to curl up in my sheets and cease to exist.

But life doesn't work like that. The baby doesn't stop needing her mum. The pets don't stop needing food and love. And so, I persevere.

[labelleizzy]

Hey @kedreeva here's what Artemis 's painting looks like in the dark in my bedroom on a painsomnia night.

Bird feet are weirdly reassuring in this context.

...Pain is sneaky, we hates it

...Thank the kind gods that Flexiril works for me so I'm not subject to the ridiculous gatekeeping people have to deal with if any of the opiates are the pain meds that work for their bodies.

Let's try again to go to sleep, hopefully I'll stop grinding my teeth and can relax my neck and shoulders when the pain lets up.

[iminaworldofpureimagination]

i lived 30 years of being able to eat pizza no problem

then one day after eating too many weiners boom i have gallstones and can only eat pizza once a month.. tho i shouldnt.. it makesmesqueasy but cravings...like i love pizza .. homemade pizza never gives much problems but i never taste as good

[doresworld]

It is so fucked up that disabled people are terrified of going to the doctors

[oppossums]

i hate going to the doctor i hate being talked to like i don't know things about weight i hate being told to lose weight when i am expressing legitimate health concerns i hate paying someone to dismiss my very real pain just to tell me to make myself smaller i hate having to advocate for myself to someone who should automatically want to advocate for my health as their fucking job i hate being in pain all the time and i hate the us medical industry taking medical care of people should NEVER have had the option to become monetized for profit the way it is here it's so dystopian and horrific.