Ideas for dealing with chronic pain?

Where is the chronic pain..? Typically just staying on a pain reliever will work for a little while, but your body might build a tolerance. If you’re having chronic pain, the best choice is to see a doctor.

More details, plz. Many in the collective will have ideas (including me.)

Marijuana.

As stated by uberbatman, your best bet is to use marijuana, as it is a relatively safe and effective method of providing pain relief. If you were going to try pain killers or some other form of medication anyway, you should really consider marijuana as an alternative.

Hmmmm. I thought marijuana was illegal.

it depends on which state you live in, in some you can get medical marijuana. although i will say that, despite popular opinion, marijuana is habit forming. and after a certain amount of time it kind of stops working too.

i would also suggest: deep breathing and meditation, concentrating on the flow of your breath, learning how to observe the sensations in your body without judging and reacting to them, tiger balm for aches and pains, valerian/hops tincture to help you sleep, finding stretches and exercises that strengthen other muscles and help you support the parts that hurt (i.e. physical therapy)... acupuncture has helped me a lot. and other types of body work – chiropracter and the occasional massage when i can afford it. i also saw someone for a while who did really gentle movement based bodywork and that was really cool because it helped my body learn how to release things it was tightened around (i.e. old trauma, etc).

honestly, and i know this is hard to hear, but i think the most important thing with chronic pain is to accept it and learn how to adapt your lifestyle so you can take care of yourself. there is a lot to be learned from sitting still and listening to your body, but usually we have too many obligations. after dealing with daily, constant pain for many years, i ended up getting on disability benefits. and now i have time to take care of myself. i still have pain but i don’t fight with it all the time, and i don’t feel frantic about it.

i wish you luck. i know lots of people that take a lot of medication for their pain but that hasn’t been my path so i can’t recommend any…

@everyone above thanks for all this great advice. Oh and I was also shocked when the Doc said try MJ . However , he did not give me any ? Humm. So I take the opiods
and still I have break through pain . Pain is in the foot/ ankle / and leg . Still iam working just under full time . I’m just trying to see what treatment others found helpful, thanks again.

opiates are horrible and highly addictive. I’d really try to stay away from them if possible. Do you live in a state where medical marijuana is legal?

@uberbatman I’m not sure? Is there a list I

Here , hope this helps.