November 23rd, 2011 7:18 am

Art and distraction

By |2022-09-05T11:26:11+10:00November 23rd, 2011|Categories: Creativity, Learn, Living, Manage, My treatment, Personal resources|Tags: , , , |

My creativity has been one of my main coping mechanisms through my chronic pain life. It's the place I go to feel free, release the steam, express my pain, and to get distracted to the point of pain! But it's worth it every time. There isn't a lot I can achieve with my capacity so one drawing, one painting over months, one post on my blog... anything, it's all worth it.

November 21st, 2011 9:23 am

Pain loops, syndromes and an over protective brain

By |2022-09-05T11:26:11+10:00November 21st, 2011|Categories: About, Creativity, Funnies, Manage, The pain|Tags: , |

How many definitions for pain signals are out there? It doesn't stop and I have to be really honest here, it all sounds like hogwash for a person who was unstoppable and prior to her injury had the stamina of a bull (as a friend once described me).

November 19th, 2011 10:41 am

Diagnosis: Physiotherapy at the Women’s

By |2023-02-17T10:32:01+11:00November 19th, 2011|Categories: Help, My treatment, Professional|Tags: , , , , |

It felt like a miracle and took all of about 15 minutes for the phsyiotherapist (at the chronic pelvic pain clinic at the Women's here in Melbourne Australia) to give me her French infused explanation that my pain was most probably coming from my Pudendal Nerve (yes, a name, I had a name!). It took another 15mins for her to put me in on my back (I never lay on my back as it was too painful) and apply a pressure/postural technique that switched my pain off! (Yes, OFF... calm, silence, stillness, roar gone, no spasm, quiet, peace)... unbelievable but this is true.

May 22nd, 2011 8:36 am

The way relief continued…

By |2022-09-05T11:26:11+10:00May 22nd, 2011|Categories: About, My treatment|Tags: , , , , |

A few months into my implant and I felt like I was human again... my senses were back and it was incredible!! That thick pain fog was lifted and I could taste, smell, see, concentrate, focus, remember, listen, think, plan, dream, enjoy, laugh, read, oh what bliss!!!!

February 20th, 2011 7:06 am

The way relief started

By |2023-02-17T10:32:01+11:00February 20th, 2011|Categories: About, My treatment|Tags: , , , , |

In my case, the procedure was much less complicated as I didn't need the leads to go through the spinal canal but rather along my sacrum and coccyx. There is a trial period in which the unit sits outside and is 'plugged in' via the leads that, yes, are sticking half out/half in your body. Look I know that might sound gruesome to some but please... we're talking about chronic pain here... it was NOTHING. A cinch... it worked, it's in now and giving me great pain relief.

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