Comments on: First real bad day in a While http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/ A Today.com weblog designed by a chronic pain sufferer FOR chronic pain sufferers Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:16:53 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: cmaher http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2501 cmaher Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:48:44 +0000 http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2501 Pain is easier to control and home plus you can cry like a baby if you really hurt. No one will see the nastiness but in public it's a whole different story. I hope your feeling better now! Banish the yuckies Pain is easier to control and home plus you can cry like a baby if you really hurt. No one will see the nastiness but in public it’s a whole different story.

I hope your feeling better now! Banish the yuckies

]]> By: kithlyara http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2500 kithlyara Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:27:26 +0000 http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2500 When you feel bad in public, there's more pressure to pretend that you're feeling well. That stress only makes you feel worse. At home, you don't have to pretend that you're feeling well. You can lay down in your bed, curl up with a book, watch a movie, take a bath... whatever gives you comfort. That comfort and freedom to do those things makes you feel better. Emotional state and mental attitude plays a large part in the perception of pain. If you're stressed or upset, you'll feel more pain. If you are relaxed and feel like you're in control, the amount of pain you feel lessens. I hope you're feeling better now! *hugs!* demyelinatednotdestroyed.today.com When you feel bad in public, there’s more pressure to pretend that you’re feeling well. That stress only makes you feel worse.

At home, you don’t have to pretend that you’re feeling well. You can lay down in your bed, curl up with a book, watch a movie, take a bath… whatever gives you comfort. That comfort and freedom to do those things makes you feel better.

Emotional state and mental attitude plays a large part in the perception of pain. If you’re stressed or upset, you’ll feel more pain. If you are relaxed and feel like you’re in control, the amount of pain you feel lessens.

I hope you’re feeling better now! *hugs!*

demyelinatednotdestroyed.today.com

]]> By: skye08 http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2496 skye08 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:47:27 +0000 http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2496 I can relate. I didn't have anything sweet yesterday, not even splenda but I also didn't eat enough protien so by last night I was hypoglygemic and got really sick and a migraine.. I also have fibro and yes it goes hand in hand with hypoglycemia. I try to stay away from sugar as much as possible but I slipped during the holidays. I can relate. I didn’t have anything sweet yesterday, not even splenda but I also didn’t eat enough protien so by last night I was hypoglygemic and got really sick and a migraine.. I also have fibro and yes it goes hand in hand with hypoglycemia. I try to stay away from sugar as much as possible but I slipped during the holidays.

]]> By: cgardener http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2495 cgardener Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:24:49 +0000 http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2495 Men are so insensitive to us when we are sick, but let them get a splinter in their finger, and you'd think surgery was required. I have lupus, and the fibro goes along with that. I have intermittent low blood sugar, and it makes me nauseous when it drops. I too, find it better not to eat sweets at all, because that makes it spike, then drop suddenly. Fruit or bread makes mine stabilize quickly. Men are so insensitive to us when we are sick, but let them get a splinter in their finger, and you’d think surgery was required.

I have lupus, and the fibro goes along with that. I have intermittent low blood sugar, and it makes me nauseous when it drops. I too, find it better not to eat sweets at all, because that makes it spike, then drop suddenly.

Fruit or bread makes mine stabilize quickly.

]]> By: atorturedsoul http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2493 atorturedsoul Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:04:29 +0000 http://chronicpain.today.com/2008/11/30/first-real-bad-day-in-a-while/#comment-2493 I also have hypoglycemia and I have found it is better to avoid sweets as much as I can. In fact, I have found that eating sweets sometimes CAUSES my blood sugar to drop. When my blood sugar dips, I go for carbs. It gets it back to normal and it stays up. I also have hypoglycemia and I have found it is better to avoid sweets as much as I can. In fact, I have found that eating sweets sometimes CAUSES my blood sugar to drop. When my blood sugar dips, I go for carbs. It gets it back to normal and it stays up.

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