I Use Will Power to Suppress My Pain

Mitch86

Mitch86

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I'm 86 and two doctors maimed my feet 7 years ago. Plus, a recent x-ray of my spine showed severe arthritis resulting in osteoporosis of my neck and twisting of my spine in the pelvic area. Pain was so bad that I came close to going to Switzerland to get Voluntary Assisted Death. Now my geriatrician offered to get me Tylenol+3 (Codeine) for my pain. He sent me a 4 page form to sign before he could send me the pills.

However, as the years went by I have learned to just use WILL POWER, ice packs and massages by my wife to suppress the pain. I rarely complain about the pain anymore and am just holding that form in abeyance. If I go terminal and get referred to hospice, then they will have me sign the proper form and they will give me morphine until I die. In the meantime I live every day to the fullest and just ignore the pain no matter how severe. During the day I keep mega busy on my PC with games and financial activities. In the night I just accept severe pain when I wake up to go to the bathroom. I also wear orthopedic shoes from Amazon everywhere to minimize pain especially when standing in the bathroom.

Maybe other old folks here have the same problem and may want to try my technique: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL!!
 

Mitch86 said:
I'm 86 and two doctors maimed my feet 7 years ago. Plus, a recent x-ray of my spine showed severe arthritis resulting in osteoporosis of my neck and twisting of my spine in the pelvic area. Pain was so bad that I came close to going to Switzerland to get Voluntary Assisted Death. Now my geriatrician offered to get me Tylenol+3 (Codeine) for my pain. He sent me a 4 page form to sign before he could send me the pills.

However, as the years went by I have learned to just use WILL POWER, ice packs and massages by my wife to suppress the pain. I rarely complain about the pain anymore and am just holding that form in abeyance. If I go terminal and get referred to hospice, then they will have me sign the proper form and they will give me morphine until I die. In the meantime I live every day to the fullest and just ignore the pain no matter how severe. During the day I keep mega busy on my PC with games and financial activities. In the night I just accept severe pain when I wake up to go to the bathroom. I also wear orthopedic shoes from Amazon everywhere to minimize pain especially when standing in the bathroom.

Maybe other old folks here have the same problem and may want to try my technique: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL!!
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Sorry to hear about your condition. My dad was in a lot of pain too from cancer.
Check out mindfulness meditation. It won't eliminate the pain but it will change your sensory experience of it. I do it myself but thankfully not for pain.
 

Mitch86 said:
Maybe other old folks here have the same problem and may want to try my technique: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL!!
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Well, I'm just a kid at 72, but, like most here, I've got pains.

When I had shingles, I could only sleep standing up.
CBD oil was a help.

I ruined my back early on
When living at the cabin, I would hang on a stout tree limb to loosen things
Now, I just grit thru it
I guess that's will power

Other pains are just minor
Reminds me I'm still topside

Immediate pain, like clipping my little toe a week or so ago, just pisses me off

But

Mitch, I so admire your tenacity
Yessir

Hope to be that way myself when and if I get to 86
 
Mitch86 said:
I'm 86 and two doctors maimed my feet 7 years ago. Plus, a recent x-ray of my spine showed severe arthritis resulting in osteoporosis of my neck and twisting of my spine in the pelvic area. Pain was so bad that I came close to going to Switzerland to get Voluntary Assisted Death. Now my geriatrician offered to get me Tylenol+3 (Codeine) for my pain. He sent me a 4 page form to sign before he could send me the pills.

However, as the years went by I have learned to just use WILL POWER, ice packs and massages by my wife to suppress the pain. I rarely complain about the pain anymore and am just holding that form in abeyance. If I go terminal and get referred to hospice, then they will have me sign the proper form and they will give me morphine until I die. In the meantime I live every day to the fullest and just ignore the pain no matter how severe. During the day I keep mega busy on my PC with games and financial activities. In the night I just accept severe pain when I wake up to go to the bathroom. I also wear orthopedic shoes from Amazon everywhere to minimize pain especially when standing in the bathroom.

Maybe other old folks here have the same problem and may want to try my technique: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL!!
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I do the same thing with my sciatica pain. I deal with it...however, I have more good days than painful days. However, my sinus pressure give me a fit. I feel it in my jaw, top of my head, sinus area..arrgghh. I have a tension knot on the side of my right neck which I am sure makes it worst. I try to massage it daily. Mornings are a bit rough..muscles are a bit stiff. A hot shower helps - if its too bad, I take a 1/2 muscle relaxer...which helps. I recently got into meditation which helps a LOT... still a work in progress.
 
Tish said:
Unfortunately, I suffer from cluster Migraines and the only thing that works for them is Sumatriptan
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Y'know, Tish, I suffered from migaines most my life.
I remember pressing my head against the pillow at around age 4
It helped
Until I took the pressure off....then WHOA....worse than before

I'd get 'em about twice a month
crippling
Never complained, but my wife could tell by my eyes and wrinkled brow

Anyway, I was told nitrates could be a cause
I was a hotdog whore
Quit the ones with nitrates
Haven't had a headache since

Might look see if yer consuming nitrates
 
There were two major characters in recent world history who also had to deal with terrible pain. Franklin Roosevelt had to deal with pain AND paralysis in both legs from polio for twenty years. He set up Warm Springs, Georgia, to help himself and even paid for other victims of polio to come there and use the hot water from volcanic sources to help them. He was elected to four terms as US President, the most of any President in history and took the USA out of economic depression and out of WW II with victory.

Another nasty character in world history was Adolph Hitler. There is no question he was the most evil national leader in history causing the deaths of 55 million. However, he also overcame blindness for 6 months in WW I caused by mustard gas and then suffered terribly from Parkinson's Disease for 10 years before he died by suicide. Yet he continued to lead Germany from 1933 to 1945 using his will power since there was and is no cure for Parkinson's Disease either then or now. His motto, coincidently, was "Triumph of the Will." His motion picture expert, Leni Riefenstahl, made a motion picture about one of his Nuremburg rallies and called it "Triumph of the Will."

Thus, if two national leaders could use "Triumph of the Will" to overcome extreme pain and go on with our lives, so can I and everyone here including me.

In the end all pain and suffering is cured by natural death which happens to ALL of us. Thus, none of us have to suffer for eternity. We must just have patience and it will all end naturally very soon. I am 86 and male. Thus, I have a 75% chance of dying in the next four years per this CDC Survivor Table for white males:

https://imgur.com/3e84CUe
 
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Mitch86 said:
Another nasty character in world history was Adolph Hitler. There is no question he was the most evil national leader in history causing the deaths of 55 million. However, he also overcame blindness for 6 months in WW I caused by mustard gas and then suffered terribly from Parkinson's Disease for 10 years before he died by suicide. Yet he continued to lead Germany from 1933 to 1945 using his will power since there was and is no cure for Parkinson's Disease either then or now. His motto, coincidently, was "Triumph of the Will." His motion picture expert, Leni Riefenstahl, made a motion picture about one of his Nuremburg rallies and called it "Triumph of the Will."
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Hitler was only 56 when he died. So sad. He never even reached retirement age.

That reminds me of an article I read the other day of a 62y/o man who stormed the Capital in the January 6th insurrection. He's still going strong in his senior years — still out there assaulting cops and trying to overthrow our government.

I'm about the same age and I'm not sure I'd have the energy to do that. I'd probably just sit down and say, "Naa, you kids go on. I'll wait out here. Bring me a souvenir or something from the rotunda."

Note: this post is satire. Do not take it seriously.
 
Gary O' said:
Y'know, Tish, I suffered from migaines most my life.
I remember pressing my head against the pillow at around age 4
It helped
Until I took the pressure off....then WHOA....worse than before

I'd get 'em about twice a month
crippling
Never complained, but my wife could tell by my eyes and wrinkled brow

Anyway, I was told nitrates could be a cause
I was a hotdog whore
Quit the ones with nitrates
Haven't had a headache since

Might look see if yer consuming nitrates
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Thank you so much for that advice, I will take it on board.
I do love my cured meats, will be cutting them out for sure.
 
Mitch, thank you so much,
especially for what you shared in the first post, in this thread.
And some of the others too.
 
Tish said:
Thank you so much for that advice, I will take it on board.
I do love my cured meats, will be cutting them out for sure.
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Well, there's plenty of cured meats now, without nitrates

Please feel free to PM me on how things go
I've been preaching this gospel to all my Migraine pained friends for about 10 years
Which reminds me, I've gotta throw out that unopened bottle of Migraine pills
It's gotta be out of date
 
Regarding his medical history, we do know that Hitler had an uneventful childhood, despite the fact that he was one of 2 surviving children out of 6. He fell victim to an attack of mustard gas on October 14, 1918, while serving as a runner for Germany during World War I.22 He was briefly treated at the reserve hospital in Pasewalk, where he received care in the department of neurology and psychiatry.19 Here, he claimed to have experienced a period of blindness,10 though this is likely an exaggeration. His early life is otherwise without medical significance.

During his time as Führer, Hitler experienced frequent constipation and intestinal spasms that suggest the modern diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome. He had coronary artery disease and/or hypertensive heart disease and may have suffered a small myocardial infarction in July 1941.19 He was afflicted by photosensitivity, tinnitus, headaches, and insomnia.21 Regarding the latter, he tended to have some degree of sleep inversion as well, falling asleep well after midnight and sleeping until mid- to late morning. In late September 1944 he became quite ill with cholestasis; very little workup was performed (Hitler was adamantly opposed to diagnostic procedures, around the abdomen in particular), and he recovered after several weeks.21
Although Morell only acknowledged the diagnosis several weeks before Hitler’s death,21 there is a good deal of evidence that Hitler had been suffering for years from parkinsonism. The most thorough analysis was that of Ellen Gibbels. She extensively reviewed newsreels from the time and determined that Hitler first showed hypomotility in his left arm in 1941, progressing later to his left leg and right arm; a gait disturbance was apparent in 1943 and a tremor in 1944.

https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/39/1/article-pE8.xml
 
A new analysis of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's symptoms suggests he might not have been stricken by polio but by Guillain-Barré syndrome.


In 1921, at the beginning of his political career, Roosevelt became feverish and developed paralysis, which started in his legs and moved up to his neck. Although he recovered partially, he remained permanently wheelchair-bound.


Immunological pediatrician Armond Goldman of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston now says FDR's symptoms are more concordant with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a bacterially induced autoimmune disease. For example, polio paralyzes limbs unevenly and doesn't move up the body as happened with Roosevelt. The intense pain he felt when people touched his paralyzed legs isn't commonly seen in poliomyelitis. What's more, it would be highly unusual for polio to strike someone well into adulthood.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/10/did-fdr-have-guillain-barr
 
Roosevelt eventually did succumb to physical deterioration, though it wasn’t the result of his longtime battle with polio. In March 1944, he underwent a physical that revealed an alarming array of ailments, including arteriosclerosis, cardiac failure and acute bronchitis. Ignoring recommendations to retire, the 62-year-old was elected to an unprecedented fourth presidential term in November. Five months later, after returning from the Yalta Conference in the final months of World War II, he died from a cerebral haemorrhage.

Roosevelt’s legacy has never shaken the spectre of his disability. The creation of a presidential memorial late in the 20th century sparked a debate about whether to depict him in his wheelchair. And new theories continue to surface about the causes of his paralysis and death.
Still, FDR’s permanent association to a failing body serves as a reminder that in addition to steering America through the Great Depression and World War II, FDR managed to convince a public that his physical disability was no hindrance.


https://www.biography.com/news/franklin-roosevelt-health
 
Mitch86 said:
I'm 86 and two doctors maimed my feet 7 years ago. Plus, a recent x-ray of my spine showed severe arthritis resulting in osteoporosis of my neck and twisting of my spine in the pelvic area. Pain was so bad that I came close to going to Switzerland to get Voluntary Assisted Death. Now my geriatrician offered to get me Tylenol+3 (Codeine) for my pain. He sent me a 4 page form to sign before he could send me the pills.

However, as the years went by I have learned to just use WILL POWER, ice packs and massages by my wife to suppress the pain. I rarely complain about the pain anymore and am just holding that form in abeyance. If I go terminal and get referred to hospice, then they will have me sign the proper form and they will give me morphine until I die. In the meantime I live every day to the fullest and just ignore the pain no matter how severe. During the day I keep mega busy on my PC with games and financial activities. In the night I just accept severe pain when I wake up to go to the bathroom. I also wear orthopedic shoes from Amazon everywhere to minimize pain especially when standing in the bathroom.

Maybe other old folks here have the same problem and may want to try my technique: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL!!
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Oh wow Mitch , just incredible that you've managed to control your pain in this way, but I'm so sorry that you're still suffering so badly during the night... I wish you everything you wish for yourself.
 
Gary O' said:
Well, there's plenty of cured meats now, without nitrates

Please feel free to PM me on how things go
I've been preaching this gospel to all my Migraine pained friends for about 10 years
Which reminds me, I've gotta throw out that unopened bottle of Migraine pills
It's gotta be out of date
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Thank you so much. :love:
 
Mitch if you can continue to use your will to suppress the pain...that's fantastic. If not, I hope you'll do what else is necessary not to have to live steeped in pain! Have you ever tried acupuncture? If so, did it help at all? I'm so sorry that you are going through this! But my goodness... you sure are brave!
 

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