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As someone with chronic pain, nope, I don't think one builds up a tolerance to it. Instead, I think I'm lucky in that the severity waxes and wanes. Below some t
by senorprogrammer 12y ago
As someone with chronic pain, nope, I don't think one builds up a tolerance to it. Instead, I think I'm lucky in that the severity waxes and wanes. Below some threshold it recedes from being pervasive, going into the background and I have to go consciously looking for it to see if I'm still feeling it.
Exceed that threshold and it's always there, front and centre, just pain. At that point, as throwaway91214 says, I consciously try to ignore it.
When it exceed the next threshold, life pretty much stops for awhile until it recedes again. Those are the sleepless nights and long, minimal days.
(I use the notion of thresholds for simplicity, it's perhaps closer to an exponential scale).
I've had mine for about eleven years. Such is life.
- throwaway91214 12y agoI am the same. I can ignore it until a certain level, then I just have to stop being productive and ride it out. The trick is to not worry about the effect stopping to ride it out has on your life. Worrying about not working/playing/socializing because it might annoy a boss/client/girlfriend/family/friend or because it will mean less money/friends/etc. Edit, and hang in there friend. I don't know about you but for me its unlikely to ever get better. I am not an optimist, but there is still a lot of cool shit in this world to enjoy. We are lucky to live in the age we do.