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Cluster Headache Help and Support >> Cluster Headache Specific >> Remember the mental tricks for dealing with pain? http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1338850952 Message started by Katherinecm on Jun 4th, 2012 at 7:02pm |
Title: Remember the mental tricks for dealing with pain? Post by Katherinecm on Jun 4th, 2012 at 7:02pm
Hey guys,
back when I first went chronic I remember there were a series of posts about using mental imagery to deal with pain. Something like imagining moving the pain into your hand or something? I can't remember it very well. Tried it once and it didn't work for me, but it did help some people a lot. Well now I have a friend who is dying of cancer. 32 year old veteran who got stage 4 lung cancer from tending burn pits in Iraq. He's got constant 6-7 pain, with breakthrough spikes up to 10, and is not sleeping for more than an hour. The pain descriptions at least remind me of myself at my worst. He would prefer to not be snowed out on painkillers and wants to find ways to deal with the pain. He's still fighting and hoping for a cure. The cancer is spread everywhere though (liver, thigh muscle, bones all over, and is starting to invade the brain stem), so that will take a miracle. For some reason the imagery thing keeps coming to mind and I'm wondering if anyone here can remind me of enough of it to search, or just fill me in so I can pass it on to him. Thanks! |
Title: Re: Remember the mental tricks for dealing with pain? Post by Brew on Jun 4th, 2012 at 7:08pm
From Charlie:
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Title: Re: Remember the mental tricks for dealing with pain? Post by Katherinecm on Jun 4th, 2012 at 9:16pm
Thank you!
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Title: Re: Remember the mental tricks for dealing with pain? Post by Brew on Jun 4th, 2012 at 9:19pm
No - thank Charlie! ;)
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