Moving Beyond Chronic Pain with Sarah Shockley

Moving Beyond Chronic Pain

www.thepaincompanion.com

According to data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, 11.2 percent of American adults ( 25.3 million people) experience some sort of pain – often at severe levels- every day and have for the previous three months.

Living with pain is one of the most challenging things one has to undergo in their lives.

We talk about

• Why over the counter pain pills are not the answer
• Why opiates are dangerous
• How to manage pain without opiates
• The emotional life of chronic pain
• When pain is the teacher
• Why traditional doctors cannot help you with your pain
• How to get your physician to listen and really hear you regarding your pain
• When pain is actually a good thing
• Why pain is often misunderstood by those who are not in pain
• To medicate or not

Anything we are fighting has the power.  You have the opportunity to not give your power away through the pain. It is time to understand it and manage it using various options.  Pain is not a cookie cutter experience.  What works for one person may not work for another.  Your pain is REAL!  Do not deny what you feel.