Exactly.
When I am seen living they seem to think that I am not in pain, they do not realize that i am just ignoring it.
I want to frame this and give it to my rheumatologist. Thank you, Lene.
Where illness makes me arrogant is in my impatience with people with relatively healthy bodies kvetching over what is, to them, a big or scary deal, and to me is like hey, I got past that years ago, why are you wasting your time getting hung up on that? Go LIVE your life!
My sister is the head of rehab services at a hospital.
I am going to send her this.
(hugs)
I have fibro. I get it.
I have fibro, too and you are describing my lifestyle. I worry sometimes that I'll have a new pain that I should pay attention to and will just put a "filter" on it.
It's amazing what we can do with those filters.
But we must be wary. I've filtered my way into the ER without realizing I was in pain!
It's good to know we can filter pain, but it's also good to know WHEN to listen to it. Every now and then, we should listen.
But for one, I'm glad your filters work so that you can come out to LIVE!
I am by no means in the same league as you as far as pain, just the relatively normal aches & pains of living. They are easily handled with ibuprofen.
The thing that really bugs me is the slight asthma/sensitivity/allergies that my long-term (and not really missed) employer gave me as a lovely parting gift. I cannot prove that they were the cause (actually the mold-infested building that I worked in); which annoys me to no end, but is yet another thing to deal with on a regular basis.
Like you, I try to ignore/filter out the pain, or the wheezing, and get on with whatever I was doing. Most days this works pretty well.
For many years I have had what I refer to euphemistically as a plumbing problem that doesn't actually disable me or impair my health in any way except for hurting a lot (Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln...). I am finally getting treatment for it (that's what the infernal diet is for), and it's working. When the doc asked me before treatment on the infamous 1-10 scale, how bad is it, I think I said about 3. Now that I don't have to work so hard to ignore it I realize that it was at least 5. These days it hovers around 1, occasionally receding so I hardly know it's there.
Anyhow, I have some inkling what you're talking about, and, no, I wouldn't sit still either.
Have you seen Intervention?
These words perfectly describe my life right now. I definitely want a more active life, and feel that the pain I experience is definitely impacting me. I will work harder to ignore the pain, as much as possible, and strive to maintain a more active lifestyle. Your writing skills are so eloquent1
I can relate.
Not so much about pain. I'm not great at filtering it out. Though when I used to get migraines regularly, I was good at it.
But my experience with schizophrenia is kind of like that. I still have lots of delusions and hallucinations, but medication, and perhaps insight, have helped put up a great filter that quickly rejects the things that aren't real so that I generally only have to deal with the things that actually exist.
Of course, I wish my anti-depressants were even just a fraction as effective.
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