“My pain isn’t who I am, but it controls what I can do, and in this world what you can do is a huge measure of who you are.” -unknown
The purpose of this podcast, First Do No Harm is produced in hopes to promote understanding that in turn will generate kindness and caring. Today’s episode turns the focus to outward care to inward. Today, let’s focus on YOU and the pain that YOU may experience a new way to help yourself find relief from the chronic pain you may suffer.
In this week’s episode we chat about night shift versus day shift and which is the coveted position in the world of healthcare. We also discuss chronic pain. In the midst of an opioid epidemic it is becoming increasingly difficult to get pain medication in seek of relief. At times the medications barely feel like a bandaid. As a sufferer of chronic pain I began looking for a way to decrease my pain in hopes to have the ability to run again- an action I was told would remain in my past. I’ve have successfully been able to run and go from taking almost 4grams of Tylenol a day for pain to rarely taking it! We discuss the pathophysiology of how pain works and the circuit pathway in relation to the brain. We go through proven research on ways to train your brain to communicate differently to rewire your brain into tolerating what those with chronic pain suffer from. Listen to the podcast with an open mind, try it out and share with us the changes you experience to help encourage others.
https://invisibleproject.org/donate/ is our organization of choice this week that helps those who suffer from pain.
Thank You to:
Amy Carlson a Color Street consultant. Zelda_is_the_g1rl on instagram. Go check her out and have beautiful nails for the summer!
Fuzail Haq is our monthly patreon.
Instruction on how to meditate and focus on your pain:
http:// https://www.spine-health.com/blog/how-stop-your-pain-your-mind
For more information on medidation and the brain to pain connection here are additional links:
http://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/injury/2018/painful-consequences-112118
http://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/pain/2016/pain-therapies-102516
http://www.brainfacts.org/for-educators/for-the-classroom/2013/phantom-limbs
https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/phantom-limb-pain#1
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fibromyalgia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354780