LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN WITH ANNA AND MAX

Tag: wellness

  • Chronic Pain and the human emotion condition 💔 A vicious cycle..Mental health journey

    Dear readers,

    Most chronic pain sufferers deal with not only the pain but  anxiety  and depression as well. Anyone who endures constant pain is bound  to feel these other emotions. 

    The worse the physical suffering the more severe these other negative emotions can become. It is a vicious cycle, which constantly repeats itself day after day and it makes “living” or just plain “exsiting”even  more difficult.

    If perhaps you are already someone who was diagnosed by a psychatist as having a mental illness which requires medication the situation can be twice as challenging 🤔

    For example, I have suffered with severe anxiety and depression 🫥 most of my life and I do take medication for these issues. Unfortunately, as my chronic pain has grown steadily worse so has the severity of the depression and anxiety.. My medication doesnt provide much relief from my mental health symptoms anymore. 😬

    Over the past few months, I have noticed a negative change in my mental health symptoms. 

    It seems that I have been suffering with more severe and unmanageable panic attacks (almost every day) 😐

    Panic Attacks which can last for hours as my pain level and sleeplessness as well as other issues rise..

    I decided to mention this to my psychiatrist, he spoke with me and felt that I had developed a more serious mental situation.

    I am certain most have heard of bipolar disorder 😕  Apparently, I have developed a form of bipolar disorder called bipolar disorder with mixed episodes 😒

    Here is the definition…. “When a person experiences symptoms of mania/hypomania (highs) and depression (lows) at the same time or in rapid succession,creating intense inner turmoil with energy, agitation and hopelessness.”

    I feel that this more severe issue has been brought about by the chronic pain.

    Here is a short video 4 minutes perhaps you might recognize symptoms in your own mental health journey

    As for me,there has currently been a change in my medications to try and get some type of a handle on this new issue as I now navigate a new mental health journey.

    Think about how chronic pain affects your own personal mental health

    Chronic pain effects every aspect of the human condition 💔

    Thank you for reading 📚 ❤️

    Sincerely Anna and Max the Cat 🐈

  • Health restoration and talking animals

    Describe your life in an alternate universe.

    My answer isn’t very interesting or imaginative, but in my alternate universe, my health would be completely restored,  The entire new universe would be covered with flowers, gardens  butterflies, and trees 🌳 always  beautiful, peaceful and calming  😊 

    Here, there is only one human who is surrounded and all kinds of talking animals 😀 and we would spend our days running, playing, laughing, and cuddling together ❤️

  • Quite Disappointed in effects of newly prescribed B- 12 SHOTS

    CASEY JONES OLD COUNTRY STORE AND MUSEUM IN JACKSON, TENNESSEE

    Perhaps some of my readers have been prescribed B-12 shots for their vitamin deficiency’s If so, I am curious 🤔 if they helped?

    On a personal note, I was prescribed a weeks worth of B-12 injections 💉 to administer here at home by my neurologist two days ago.

    I was very concerned 😟 about side effects, especially ones that might affect my chronic pain 😢  but I decided to try a  shot yesterday.

    Luckily, the side effects weren’t too bad. I was desperate for something, anything that wouldn’t cause me to be so tired all the time. I was definitely happy when I seemed to get about a 15 – to 20-minute burst of energy that allowed me to do a few things 😌 around the house 🏠 except for most of the rest of the day I was still worn out.

    I woke up this morning 🌄 horribly fatigued as I always do, and I am hoping for the same effect (a tiny bit of energy), so I gave myself another injection 💉

    Unfortunately, today’s shot 😕 has had  terrible effects. I feel more fatigued and in pain than I ever have. I have no energy whatsoever. I read online that the shots sometimes have a melatonin effect in which they make people horribly sleepy.

    I had such high hopes for the shots! I really hoped they were going to help me with my extreme fatigue 😩 

    If any of my readers have ever taken B-12 supplements or injections, 🤔 how 🤔 did they make you feel?

  • Second appointment with Dr. El-Said (neurologist today) (birthday today).

    Dear Max,

    In short, the appointment did not go well at all. Exactly what I expected to happen, unfortunately, did.

    I don’t suppose it is not necessary to write a long letter about what happened 😕 at the office, because it was quite simple and something that has happened to me with every doctor I have seen for my facial pain.

    Dr. El-said said that he only treated Trigimina Neueolgia, and since the medication he gave me did not work, once  again I heard the dreaded words, there’s nothing more I can do, I will refer you to a headache specialist and a Tmj surgeon 😪

    Quickly on a side note, I did learn from the bloodwork that I got done at Quest Labs not too long ago, indicated a vitamin B-12 deficiency, so I was  prescribed some B-12 shots to give myself at home. I hope that  I will be able to administer those correctly.

    Unfortunately, when I was weighed, my weight was 84 pounds and not 88 (so I have lost 4 pounds within only two months) 😫 I am not dieting. I am only constantly losing, and this has me very concerned 😟  It is unfortunately an indicator of a very serious illness 🤒 for months and months I have been researching other issues that could cause this symptom, unfortunately most all of them lead to one. (But I just keep telling myself it’s because of the pain that I am barely eating because when I do, the pain is excruciating)  so im not getting many calories 😪)

    But that is neither here nor there. Today is my birthday 🎂 and I was hoping and praying for some good news 🙏 for at least some pain medication when it just becomes too unbearable   but unfortunately, it was not to be.

    I am debating whether to completely give up or not. because I am just so tired 😫 because again I have to start all over and I dont know if i really want to do that.

    For three years, I have been going to doctors, having all kinds of tests, everything with no result.

    I am not quite as depressed this time about this as I was with the other doctors because, like I mentioned, it was expected, but it didn’t particularly make for a very good birthday 😪

    Sincerly Meowmmy 😺