Anyone get chronic pain or have a disability?

[c-sharp minor]

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Happened about 4-5 months ago.

The only time it doesn't cause me great pain is while standing.

I can't sit for more than a minute or two without the pain starting up again.

Lying down is difficult as well. Some nights I can make it through the night with out being roused by the pain, and then proceed to walk it off for a couple of hours. Other nights, such as last night, I get 2-4 hours sleep and spend the rest of the night in pain.

 

[cornfish]

We're a bunch of broken down fella's here LOL

All in all i don't mind being a little banged up, but this chronic pain crap get's so old in a hurry. At least we don't have that constant ear ringing disease. I'd run over myself with a garbage truck if i got that

 

[hrt39]

Let's see...squatting since 1980. That wore out L-5 / S-1 in my spine/lumbar by 1992, or so. Termed "degenerative disk". Disks herniated and pinching sciatic nerves are 24/7 low dull pain with bits of "lock ups" thrown in every now and then to keep you guessing. Current battle is bad right shoulder, which interferes with almost all upper body movements in the gym. Laid off it for a month, but still wasn't enough. It felt worse after the layoff. The HRT pretty much cured the back/spine problem by putting more water in/around spine disks and joints. I just don't squat more than 1 time/month, don't do any standing calves (that put downward pressure on the spine), Don't go heavier then 315 on barbell shrugs or 100's each hand on dumbell shrugs for same reason. I feel better working through and around these injuries than not working out anymore. That, I couldn't do.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

2 herniated discs, T11 and T9. the T11 is out towards my back and to the left, the T9 is in towards my chest and to the right.

been like this for almost 4 years. got MRIs done just over 2 years ago to find out what the problem was. no one wants to do surgery because i'm young still (will be 28 this year).

it was feeling better when i started lifting. added strength took away stress on the area. since my shoulder injury 6 months ago it has gotten worse, as i havn't been able to lift. back in the gym again though, trying to work through the shoulder injury to relieve some pain on my back.

 

[saint808]

Just waking up in the morning to face another day is chronic pain to me. I do have an anxiety disorder that is controlled by medication. You don't want to know what it feels like without medication.

no kidding... it sucks. feels kind of like a heart attack.

 

[Zebo]

I'm married.....yes.

 

[Vasudeva]

I served in the Army. I received a head injury during an ABN OP. Spent a year in and out Walter Reed, and was given a medical discharge. Also incurred permanent nerve damage in my lower right leg and left arm.

 

[rsnoble-im-back]

Well good luck getting on disability if you try that route. As you probably already read numerous times I got burnt badly and I still have severe nerve damgae in my fingers and thumbs and yet while I can grasp larger things doing stuff like putting on my jeans is a bitch--I have to have them already buttoned and the the belt on and fly up at the knees and pull them up from there, have to use the stall to take a piss cause I cant undo the fly. They've got much better, but im still an estimated 1 year from recovery. In fact, i've been trying to get on disability for 8 fucking months now, and have an appoitment at KU Med tommorow for a hand function test before getting on a flight for AZ tommorow afternoon. My brother goes----man I know you are fuked up I can see that--but you should really put on an act for them so you dont have to worry about getting denied and going thru an appeal. But my lawyer said to actually try my best cause the doc will know if im not trying and knock me for it. I told my brother--truthfully dude---you just watched me trying to open the window in the screen door and couldnt do it, and had to get 2 sets of pliers to help me with it and took nearly 10 minutes. I dont have to act, I am fuked up.

You know how your feet feel when they fall asleep SEVERELY--and you can't walk???That's how BOTH of my hands feel 24/7, no exageration. I am extrememly fuking irratible, and pain pills only help my right underarm where I have really bad scar tissue that locks up all the time, even after 3 surgeries. The last surgery they split the scar in half(release) but its reforming--even with stretching. I have to lie down about 3-4x daily with my arm over my head for stretching. I honestly dont think I can handle another surgery, they have to shave skin off your leg for a skin graft and then not only is your armpit killing you, you have a huge plastic patch on your leg that fills with blood and continually leaks all over.

Oh, and how would you like a case of poison ivy all over your front on a permanet basis. Because that's what it's like. I use HUGE amounts of goldbond lotion, Elta, and Emu oil.

I am in a constant level 6-8 pain 24/7....................so you'll just have to fuking excuse me sometimes. No fuking joke--if I get pissed off at like a restaurant or something-it's a wonder I haven't had 911 called on me yet. I feel I could easily kill someone if provoked, and try avoiding all such situations. Fortunetely my hometown bar is full of freinds so if I were provoked, etc. it would be take n care of for me-even though I only visit 1x every 2 weeks or so. I may not be my former bad ass self(lol-if I ever was), but I can shoot a gun just fine.

Not going to lie to you, or disability. I have made HUGE progress..........fuk I was supposed to be in the burn ward for 6 months and got out in 6 weeks. I am working on things---like I just boxed in one of my porches. I did all the boards, put in the windows and door by myself. However--see everything takes me 3-4x as long as it should. I'm probably as good or better at it than a normal person with no knowledge in the area because I know what needs to be done and improvise--like I put screws in bottom of the frame to hold up the panelling so I can screw it, etc. Plus there are tricks to moving large items on your own, using balance points, etc that enable you to move items that would take 3 normal people. Use your brain, not your back.

So yeah--------someone would look at the porch and say "oh that guy dont need disability". Well--if you look at the whole pic yes I do. Because a regular healthy carpenter can do it 3-4x as fast and I can't compete with that. Disability is also based on transferable skills-which I don't have any. Look--I am not going to be a permanet welfare bum---I only want disability for like a year or so until I can get back into the swing of things.

Even non-physical jobs like sales would present a challenge right now---how am I going to go lie down 3-4x during a shift so I can stretch and how am I going to run off and hide behind the corner every 5 minutes so I can scratch furiously??

Every minute of every fuking day is a painful challenge.

Sometimes I wish I would've just died. If my face had got burnt up, or my cock--I wouldn't be here right now. Most of my shit I can hide. For a million bucks so far--I think I got ripped off looking in the mirror.

So..........I am hoping after reading this some of you might realize your not so bad off. I am trully fuked up right now. And yeah---I know all about your back problems and anxiety. Had all of that too. Checked in for a heart attack a few years ago-turned out just being anxiety. Injured my lower back so bad one time I couldnt get in and out of a car without help.

LOL--sorry crack im just not in the mood for cliffnotes today.

 

[rsnoble-im-back]

BTW---I went rounds with my ins. co to provide a drug for my nerve damage cause it was $350.00 a month. And then after I got it I had ZERO results. So my doctor told me "Well, if that did not work there is nothing that can be done for you except ried out the healing process which could be another 2 years." Christ. Most of the time though im pretty upbeat and do a lot of shit although I will admit there are times I just start crying because I can't handle it. For the most part I have my head together, well as much as ever anyhow, and don't need prozac. I mean wtf, with these probelms who in their right mind wouldn't be upset????

Fortunetely like I said though most of my problems are my front and right side torso that can be concealed-I was never the shirtless type anyhow. And lukily most of teh scars are fading white and will continue to do so. I do however have to wear burn compression garments on both hands and my right forearm to keep the swelling down, and my hands are finally starting to look good and eventually I will shed these gloves. My hands are also hypersensitive to the touch--meaning that it hurts to touch, handle things.

Burns suck dick. I had 80% of my body burnt, but see a lot like my face were only 1st degree so they healed. Torso mostly 3rd, right hand and forearm 4th degree(not good). Calves both 3rd, but are looking great.

When I was first sent home I had to have my bandages changed 2x daily and we had to set up an extra bed just for me because all my wounds oozed and every morning my bed looked like an iraqi bomb victim had been lying there. Blood, puss and scabs everywhere. In mass quantitities. And nothing you can do about it. Had to maintain a 365 gram a day protein diet--so at least I had one thing going for me cause I love to eat.

I still have lots of issues..........like I can distinctly remember 2 tall buildings from my hospital room and the last time I visited I went into my old room and viewed out the window and they are gone.

Fuk I dont know, I act normal and shit--but I am def. a changed person. Theres a lot of shit in my head right now.

 

[rsnoble-im-back]

BTW--anyone here contimplating trying to get diability--I have this to say:

Getting on disability pretty much requirs that you are face down in a mud puddle in front of your house during a thunderstorm, drowning, unable to move, being repeatedly struck by lightening--and being able to maintain this for a year. And hope that you don't have a fuking pixi straw nearby that you could use as a snorkel so you can breath even though you can't reach it.

So stop crying and get a job. The system is failed becuase for people like me, who are truly unable, we will end up drowning in that puddle. And that's what their hoping for. Lukily for me I have other resources, otherwise id be in bankruptcy court. But that wouldn't really do any good either as the republicans are about to pass a new bill that would even require someone in this position unable to opt out.

Heh you know motherfukers---I paid for this fucking disability insurance for 20+ fuking years and I have a goddamn motherfuking right to it so pay the fuk up. They owe me $1300.00 a month since December. My lawyer says well im not usually optimistic the 1st time around but I really think ur going to win. And if not surely the 2nd time. The 2nd time!!! It's already been 9 fuking months of trying the first time!!! Then he goes well think about all that backpay. Big deal asshole, like I said if I weren't doing ok by other means Id be eating fuking tree bark and grass.

All I have to sat is that it's a goo fuking thing for a few people that I have a life and people around me--or I would be getting rid of a few of them. No doubt.