If you believe that to cope with chronic pain is impossible, then you are wrong. Even if the pain does not pass at all, you are able to return to normal life. Drug therapy and surgery may not be enough. Sometimes chronic pain can last for months or even years, becoming an integral part of your life. It is not surptising that in such conditions we can develop depression and anxiety, because a person always returns to his thoughts and to the fact that he lost – the mobility, freedom and power over his own body.

First of all you have to find a good doctor. You have to trust to his professional knowledge and skills, and feel to it free and comfortable to ask any questions.Gather a team of specialists because this is your life and your body. Only you can appreciate how strong your symptoms of chronic pain is and how it affects your life. Your team, for example, let be of a medical specialist and a therapist, which will work together with you and communicate with each other.

Try to look at your life from the outside. How much time do you spend on thinking and talking about your illness. How do you spend your free time before you start to feel pain, what were your hobbies,what would you like to do and how do you spend your time now.

If you feel pain and you do not want to move once again, then try to look at it in another way – by refusing to train, you damage your health and chronic pain can become only stronger. Exercises strengthen the immune system, cardiovascular system, lungs and makes you stronger. Sport also improves self-esteem and you can distract from the experience. Your doctor will advise you to choose exercise which will suit you the best.

Try to relax mentally and physically. Try yoga or deep breathing to relieve stress, because stress causes muscles squeeze and actually this happens quite unconsciously and worsen your body state.Fight with depression, because signs of chronic pain can have a significant impact on your life – destroy the relationship with family and friends, lead to loss of jobs, quality of life, money, and, finally, himself. Feelings connected with the impotence of pain, gradually accumulate at each other and, ultimately, can lead to clinical depression, with its typical symptoms – sleep disturbances and anxiety. This, in its turn, can change your physical and emotional state. So pay attention to your feelings and survivings.

Change your behavior. Your habits may temporarily distract you from pain, but they are actually harmful to your health: fat or calorien diet, lack of sleep, smoking, alcohol or drug use, lack of physical activity. This is not a treatment of your disease. Think about your habits when you pick up a piece of candy instead of apple, when you smoke after meals. Moving away from these habits, may take a long time before the changes will firmly come into your life, so you have to be patient. Chronic pain – this is no ordinary experience. Talking with other people who found themselves in the same situation, help you relieve stress and support you in the fight against pain.

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