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Anyone with chronic pain discovers they need an arsenal of treatment options, traditional ie medication and PT and nontraditional ie meditation, relaxation, acupuncture, etc. to manage their pain. The more we learn what works for oneself after trial and error the better. I have a massage once a week but if the massage therapist is even a little too aggressive with my butt and/or legs it flares me up and I suffer for a couple of days but if they keep the pressure just right I am feeling better the next day. All our treatment plans need to be very individualized and adding non-medical treatment regimes to the daily mix is certainly key to minimizing pain.

Fantastic post, Sunil. Thank you for sharing what you've learned.

sunil wrote:Having drugs to help me in the long term did not help me, it set me back in many ways.

I can certainly relate to that. I've been med-free for just over a year now. The pain is horrible but I feel so much better in other ways.

nyt wrote:All our treatment plans need to be very individualized and adding non-medical treatment regimes to the daily mix is certainly key to minimizing pain.

I couldn't agree more, NYT.

Excellent post, Sunil. Thankyou for sharing. I really agree with you that conservative methods are extremely important in managing this pain.

I do take tramadol and nortriptyline, and these are a valuable help for me, but I regard other elements of my pain management programme as equally important, if not more so. In particular the relaxation and breathing techniques from CBT and the visualisation techniques from NLP are essential for me. And there are other things as well, too numerous to go into here.

It is like having a toolbox with lots of things that all help a bit, and I can use any of them that I wish. Nothing makes it go away, but it can be managed.