I am realizing i dissociate from pain in the day to day. Best i can figure is that my body ?ignores? certain messages. I know i feel pain, but i also know i have a high pain tolerance.
Cuts sting
Blunt force feels dull. Ignorable. Just bodies being bodies
Nerve pain is hellfire. It is hijacking the system to blast the message of pain with no corresponding trauma. There is no lesson or healing— just screaming over the body’s alert system (fuck you zoster virus)
Right now my neck hurts
I am so used to dissociating from this that i go between not being entirely sure i feel anything and tearing up as spasms go up my back and spine
Fuck this is a distracting level pain
My problem is that i tune out anything below a six so once i notice it it’s bad. And i’ve already taken my daily allotment of pain meds :/
Meds hack for those interested—
If you have some Every Day pain meds and some When Needed pains, dose them both out in your pill planner and just skip the ‘when needed’ ones when you don’t need them
I take Tylenol as needed and have trouble distinguishing Thinking to Take Tylenol with Actually Taking Tylenol, so sometimes end up skipping instead of risking double dosing
Now i just put my max allotment of pain pills with my other meds. Bonus! At the end of week/refill time it is a journal of the week’s pain (what optional pain meds are left)
Med plan has shifted so much
No longer taking pain meds daily after basically 6 months of 3000mg of tylenol a day— turns out pain pills and muscle relaxants don’t work as well as meds that tell my nervous system to shut the fuck up
And it’s another fucking vet med











