Pain

I'm so sorry your hurting and we have all been there done that and it's no fun! However, it does subside over time. Keep on your meds and the right diet regamine for you. I began my first flare last May, still in it, but the pain is better.

Ah, wishing you to feel better real soon and welcome to our forum you will learn alot!

Gigi1227

Dont let your doctors not prescribe you pain medicine. They go through sensitivity training. Tell them you hurt if you hurt. Pain sucks, and only inhibits the healing process. You have no reason to feel bad in any way for asking for pain medicine.

My pain comes and goes. I'm somewhat reluctant to take anything stronger than Tylenol due to substance abuse issues in my past. It if gets unbearable, I'll have my doc do a couple of pills, but I never keep things around the house. What I've noticed helps keep the pain at bay is eating low residue foods, and using fiber additives to help keep things moving along. The better I feel, the less pain I have.

is this something that hycocimine can help with? I think thats the generic for something like nulev??

quincy said...
interesting...there was an article in one of the CCFC newsletters where a doctor stated that there's not much pain associated with UC.....bwahahahhaaaaaa...yeah right!

Are you serious???  I've almost blacked out on the toilet!  I love when people who don't have UC write articles about how it feels. 

Pain is an interesting phenomenon. It really exists only in the brain. Your muscles or organs have inflammation, stretching, pulling, etc., but it doesn't become pain until the sensation reaches the brain and is interpreted. Because of this, it's a very individual thing. Two people could have exactly the same physiological situation, yet one would say their pain is a 1 and the other an 8.

Pain is also easier to prevent than to relieve. That may be partly due to the mental/emotional component. If I'm anticipating pain, my brain and body release stress hormones that actually increase my feelings of pain and discomfort. That's why so many hospitals have gone to patient-controlled analgesia (the beloved PCA pump), because it gives us a feeling of control over when we get pain relief. I find that extremely comforting when I'm having surgery, to know I won't have to lie and wait for relief.

And yes, I love it when they say there's not much pain. I once had a new doctor who said right before my gyn exam "Just relax, this won't hurt." He caught me in just the wrong mood, and I sat up on the table and said "And how would you know? When was your last exam?" He sort of stuttered, and I said "Then don't tell me whether or not it will hurt. As it happens, it won't hurt me, but you have no way of knowing that!" He never made that mistake with me again - maybe never with any patient.

supersaw said...

Judilyn said...
Pain is an interesting phenomenon. It really exists only in the brain. Your muscles or organs have inflammation, stretching, pulling, etc., but it doesn't become pain until the sensation reaches the brain and is interpreted. Because of this, it's a very individual thing. Two people could have exactly the same physiological situation, yet one would say their pain is a 1 and the other an 8.

Yea!  This is how I dealt with a lot of pain, before it became too much.  You could actually convince yourself that pain is just a feeling, and its not that big of a deal and can kind of avoid it.

Until you got like a broken bone of course, then it doesn't work anymore.

Um, yes, well...... I actually walked on a left leg with both tibia and fibula fractured for almost three months. It hurt, but since it was just above the ankle, I thought it was just my joint pain that I get with the UC (it actually is that bad sometimes.) By the time I got to the orthopedist with it, she had to re-break the leg and put a metal plate in it to hold the bone in the proper alignment. Good times......not!