I live with chronic pain every day. I have muscular skeletal pain in my chest, back pain from a fall at work that damaged my spine and upper back. I have bulging discs in my spinal column, narrowing of the cervical discs with bulging and disc hibernation's of the lumbar region and neck area. Taken therapy to no avail went for nerve blocks of the neck and spine. still am taking a number of drugs for relief of the pain, muscle relaxers antidepressants, pain killers and the list goes on. i also developed fibromyalgia and have degenerative disc disease all through my back. I've been doctoring for this since 1999. this week I discovered now he suspects I have a hemidiaphragm on the right side and possibly beginnings of some kind of breathing problems, such as asthma, etc.. I've survived cancer of the breast, major depression, surgeries on my knee, reconstruction of my breast in 2006, raising two kids alone which are now grown and on there own. I just don't know if I can deal with any more health problems, or pain in my life. So I understand chronic pain all too well. this last problem I'm dealing with though is more than I know how to deal with. I'm 57 years old and shouldn't be having all these problems at my age. what scares me most is that my mother died when she was 57 and so that's on my mind too. I just want to feel better and have a normal life again.
Welcome to the board. I'm sorry that you've been so much and are still suffering so much.
I'm Rebecca and have "Chronic Pain Syndrome" and I'm 18....almost 19. I also have TMJ dysfunction.
