Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anyone else here suffer from long term chronic pain?

Man I havent heard the word calisthenics since Alice’s cousin Sgt Emma filled in for Alice in The Brady Bunch


Alice's cousin Emma, a former master sergeant, takes Alice's place while she is away, and she subjects the Bradys to a demanding military-like routine that makes them feel like they've been drafted into the Army


.....deep thoughts

What Hammerdown said about a low carb/low sugar diet helping with pain is all true. I am full of Osteoarthritis,so I have chronic pain and lots of it. Had full knee replacements on both knees at 48. Trying get where I can swing being off for 2 months to have ankles cut on. I started on keto earlier this year and noticed pretty quick that cutting back the carbs and sugars really helped with joint inflammation. It's not a cure all,but it made enough difference to be worth sticking with it.

Liberals have been a pain in the ass since the early ‘60s AFAIC.

Well , in a way I chose it. Picked every tough job and liked them, horseshoeing, pipe fitting, riding colts.... Ain't no office boy.
I have trouble at night and getting going early due to many fractures and repairs. The worst was an shoulder anchor that absessed and damn that hurt.
I move better as the day progresses and I work at staying limber and toughened. This isn't dress rehersal- give it everything you got. Cheers

Have you tried the epidural injections.You can get three injections two weeks apart once a year. Pain doctor, yes there are doctors that deal with nothing but pain.

I feel for all of you. Chronic lower back pain here now for about six years. I ran for exercise and stress relief until 60 when I had a bad leg injury. In retrospect, it was probably a good cardiovascular thing but no doubt cost the muscular-skeletal system a bunch.

I was an anesthetist and did pain management (all the fluoroscopic spinal injections) until ‘15 when I retired and then did only pain injections until 2019. In ‘15 hurt my back in the Wind Rivers on an elk hunt and had all the injections and RFA’s since without relief. Radiographs, MRI’s also showed some scoliosis and degenerative disk disease (DDD), which is fairly common at age 50 and over.

Really can’t take NSAIDS (aspirin Ibuprofen, naproxen etc) because last fall developed paroxysmal a-fib (means it occurs every once and awhile) which requires an anticoagulant and all the OTC pain relievers can add to that “blood-thinning” effect seriously.

So, I wear a brace, use ice, stretch, lie down, and take occasional tramadol. Interestingly, I found a dropping barometer greatly affects my discomfort

Some perspective: not much good happens to the body after thirty or so (for some earlier) and it’s the rare 80 y/o who doesn’t have some of these serious medical issues. I doubt I experience what some of you do by your explanations but some times, it’s quite bad.

But then I’m a pilgrim and just traveling through; heavens my home and it “looks“ better every day.

You guys have me knocking on every piece of wood within reach.

Ice baths seemed to help with the pain, especially when my back is “locked up” and I can’t move. Yes, the shrinkage is real.

Another to try is epson salt bath.
I took one a couple of weeks ago, it seamed to help.
I’m not one for bathtubs. First one I had.
It’s hard for me to get in and out of the bathtub. Bathtubs aren’t made for people six feet and taller.
And a fused back.

You described my issue to a T only it's the right foot and 17 years. Amature surgeon at Walter Reed.

kwg

I feel so bad I ever thought,"Um, yeah right..." when I heard an older person say, "Good Lord I can feel it in my bones... the weather is going to change...".

It was not their imagination.... It never occurred to me I'd become that older person.... I'm still immature I'd been counting on that to keep the slings and arrows of aging at bay....

I have been a serious swimmer much of my life and especially so the past 10 years for pain management.... I had been thinking that low impact regular exercise would subtract about 10 years worth of aging pain and mobility problems.... I have not been in a pool for 5 Months now.... pretty sure this is what feeling 10 years older is like.....

Been paying for my federally funded demise at an early age.. but I figure I owe somebody Ive never met something.

The pain isnt as chronic as the guilt.....

Glad it helped you.I’m fused from L2-S1.If I had it to do over again,I would have never had the first one.Y’all exhaust all the other options before the knife.Prayer,distraction,stretching and low-impact exercise,NSAID’s and pain meds only go so far.Lot of truth in not giving-up,but I can’t say I’m not ready to see heaven’s gate.Keep your mind strong and full of good thoughts,and never forget that it could always be worse