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LiberalLoner

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1. I'm so sorry you are going through all this, sounds like hell on earth.
Mon Apr 28, 2014, 10:52 AM
Apr 2014

You don't sound whiny at all. You sound brave and determined but reaching out to your fellow humans when you are feeling the strain.

Not many people understand chronic pain. They don't know how it makes every moment in life an epic struggle, how it removes all joy. How your only goal is to just keep breathing and put up a good front for everyone else.

I understand your struggle to accept the cold hard facts. I was diagnosed with MS 13 months ago, after suffering with it for 13 years or so.

Acceptance seems like a thing that comes and goes, at least for me. Some days I accept and other days I don't and rage against the dying of the light.

RSD involves the nerves, I think? So it is physical pain greatly amplified by the nerves?

I wonder if your doctors would consider prescribing neurontin, and if so, if it would be as helpful as it is with MS pain.

You can do this, you can get through this.

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