• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Chronic Pain

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
The best treatment for nerve pain is preventing the nerve from chronically firing.
The only way to do that is to relieve the pressure on the nerve.
As I mentioned, yoga did it for me, but I should add that building core strength, and particularly strength in the erector spinae and related muscles which support the spine, is essential for holding the spine in an optimal position.

I could give you a list of helpful asanas if you would like.

Yes, if you can please list the ones that were helpful for you, it would be much appreciated.

Like I said, I'm currently doing cobra/upward dog, like you mentioned earlier, I'm hesitant to do any forward bends at this point, as I have an issue with what might be a disc slipping. Occasionally when I bend forward, I'll feel something move and at about 3/4 vertical, I hit a spot of extreme pain that I can force through to get vertical to get whatever moved back in place.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
The best treatment for nerve pain is preventing the nerve from chronically firing.
The only way to do that is to relieve the pressure on the nerve.
As I mentioned, yoga did it for me, but I should add that building core strength, and particularly strength in the erector spinae and related muscles which support the spine, is essential for holding the spine in an optimal position.

I could give you a list of helpful asanas if you would like.

I friend had this done. It's not a permanent fix but it supposedly will last for a while. He says it has helped a lot with his back pain.

IDET: A New Procedure for Discogenic Back Pain Management
 

Howard Is

Lucky Mud
Yes, if you can please list the ones that were helpful for you, it would be much appreciated.

Like I said, I'm currently doing cobra/upward dog, like you mentioned earlier, I'm hesitant to do any forward bends at this point, as I have an issue with what might be a disc slipping. Occasionally when I bend forward, I'll feel something move and at about 3/4 vertical, I hit a spot of extreme pain that I can force through to get vertical to get whatever moved back in place.

Any forward bends you do, including carrying out mundane daily tasks, should be like a hinge at the groin, with the spine remaining straight. i.e neutral spine.

It is not doing that which leads most people to precisely the physical predicament you and I are in.

Learning that motion of the hinge at the hip will necessarily involve noticing that your hamstrings have shortened, and need to stretch if you are to bend forward with a neutral spine. So hamstring stretches in correct form are definitely on the list.

The easiest way to get the safe way to do forward bends is to do a kind of two handed karate chop motion into the groins, which moves your buttocks rearward, and let that tell you how to move your torso without bending your spine. Tricky to explain in text, but that change to how you bend will be useful a hundred times a day.
 

The Hammer

[REDACTED]
Premium Member
I won't say it's not always a cure. Most people insist it will help me with my IBS and I have to insist if it does it's a result of it helping with other things, such as my anxiety. It doesn't really help my knee pains, but it helps to make it more tolerable on the mind. And post surgery I won't touch it because it seems to make my body very acutely aware of the surgical site and the pain becomes sharp, stabbing, maybe even intense but it's been awhile (once was enough). That's from smoking. Edibles do seem to give me the best overall medical benefits, as I seem to be unable to get high on them but relief is overall much better, including pain relief, and it's absolutely great for my insomnia and easily disturbed sleep. Either method basically makes it easier for me to "take the reigns" of my mind and hit some breaks, but not as well as actual medication for that.
BUT, if I have a bit of anxiety built up that I haven't addressed and worked towards resolving I will have a very nasty anxiety attack as it all comes out in one moment.

Anxiety is one of the main culprits for my chronic pain (Migraines, Bone Spur, and Osteoporosis) , which is why I use this plant. It is not a perfect cure all for the multitude of ailments that people think it is; but the ability to take back the reigns as you call it is important. But the anti-inflamattory properties of CBD is where the true medicine lies. And then of course you have to take in to account the entourage effect between THC/CBD/Terpenes (there is more then just stuff that gets you high, thc, in cannabis). Terpenes like Linalool, Pinene, Myrcene, and Limonene all add/ detract from the medicinal effects.
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
Anxiety is one of the main culprits for my chronic pain (Migraines, Bone Spur, and Osteoporosis) , which is why I use this plant. It is not a perfect cure all for the multitude of ailments that people think it is; but the ability to take back the reigns as you call it is important. But the anti-inflamattory properties of CBD is where the true medicine lies. And then of course you have to take in to account the entourage effect between THC/CBD/Terpenes (there is more then just stuff that gets you high, thc, in cannabis). Terpenes like Linalool, Pinene, Myrcene, and Limonene all add/ detract from the medicinal effects.
my healthcare providers are very concerned about my anxiety level.

However, because of my severely shortened short-term memory and attention span, and my generally positive outlook overall, my anxiety level is low.

My body is stressed by things like allergies and skeletal and muscle aches and pains, including arthritis, and some other cognitive issues, plus diabetes...

But no, anxiety is not a problem...I'm pretty cheerful and happy, and if I do get upset about something...wait about five minutes and I'll have forgotten completely about it...
 

nPeace

Veteran Member
Salix has a new friend. Sciatic nerve pain.

While I can separate myself from the pain on occasion, I struggle with it in regular temporal daily activities such as sitting, driving, and sleeping. While musculo-skeletal pain is an old friend that I've learned to deal with, nerve pain is a new experience.

If you live with chronic nerve pain, how do you do so?
I know people who seek therapy, and that helps ease the pain.
I think that the best choice is to find therapeutic method that work.
I suppose you tried some of those methods.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Anxiety is one of the main culprits for my chronic pain (Migraines, Bone Spur, and Osteoporosis) , which is why I use this plant. It is not a perfect cure all for the multitude of ailments that people think it is; but the ability to take back the reigns as you call it is important. But the anti-inflamattory properties of CBD is where the true medicine lies. And then of course you have to take in to account the entourage effect between THC/CBD/Terpenes (there is more then just stuff that gets you high, thc, in cannabis). Terpenes like Linalool, Pinene, Myrcene, and Limonene all add/ detract from the medicinal effects.
That last part is basically why I'm anti-Marinol. It doesn't have the full medical benefits of whole cannabis. And why I'm not sure about all these high potency strains and concentrates, because very typically they're all THC, with 0% CBD on the label, even though that too adds to the medical uses.
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
Off topic but what style? I ask because in JKA I earned my NIdan and in Sh1toryu (sorry for the cute spelling but the autocensor does not like it spelled properly) I earned a shodan.
well done....

the instructor taught self defense rooted in Aiki Ju Jutsu
he was graded in Kung Fu
so I took the belt in kata form
(it took years)

the kata forms when done right use about everything your body can do
it's a dance
do it right at least once everyday
and you do it for life

the instructor preferred the Aiki…..so
I became the uke
very hands on....rougher than most will do (think John Wick)
only six people made first black in 20yrs the instructor held a school

and I should have kept my kata
 
Last edited:

Bird123

Well-Known Member
Salix has a new friend. Sciatic nerve pain.

While I can separate myself from the pain on occasion, I struggle with it in regular temporal daily activities such as sitting, driving, and sleeping. While musculo-skeletal pain is an old friend that I've learned to deal with, nerve pain is a new experience.

If you live with chronic nerve pain, how do you do so?


Sciatic nerve pain radiates in the leg but it's source is the back. A physical therapist can give you exercises that loosen the spinal cord and strengthen the back. It will take some time to whip you into shape but it will make things much better.

Sitting, driving, sleeping and inactivity are the worst enemies. Stay active and keep moving or things will just get worse. The older one gets;the more important moving around becomes.

You have my best!!
 

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
Has that ever actually worked for you
Has that ever actually worked for you? In my experience it's just gotten me ignored, even went from my primary care who said it sounds like I might have bipolar 2 straight to my mental health care providers, told them what my doctor said, and nothing happened. Nothing has ever been done for my insomnia either, nor my mind running a million miles an hour and jumping thoughts here-and-there, and just trying to get someone to talk to me about Asperger's like trying to pull the teeth of someone who is deathly afraid of the dentist.
Can't give this a decent answer until I can get some desktop time (on a tablet atm).

Stay tuned. :p
 

WalterTrull

Godfella
Salix has a new friend. Sciatic nerve pain.

While I can separate myself from the pain on occasion, I struggle with it in regular temporal daily activities such as sitting, driving, and sleeping. While musculo-skeletal pain is an old friend that I've learned to deal with, nerve pain is a new experience.

If you live with chronic nerve pain, how do you do so?

I am really, really sorry to welcome you to the club.
I ended up having the operation: scrapings & screws and rods, ya know?
FYI: I don't think the operation fixed much, although I can walk now. Slowly and uncomfortably and with a walker, but walking.
What they don't tell you about rehab is that when you're in, they give you opioids. You feel fine. You get out and NO ONE will write a prescription. About a month of lots of pain. There ought to be a way.
 

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
If you live with chronic nerve pain, how do you do so?

Opioids. Percocet 2-3 x/day (short acting), Xtampza XR every 12 hours. Both are oxycodone. Mine’s a combination of nerve and musculoskeletal pains from a not-entirely-successful lumbar fusion almost 4 years ago. I take meloxicam (Mobic), an anti-inflammatory at night.
 
Top