Chronic Pain Peer Advice

As a health care professional, I understand that it can be hard to take advice from someone who "just doesn’t understand." I also understand the value of peer advice. Even health care workers with the best knowledge base can overlook tips and tricks from people who have been there.

Here at about.com we encourage sharing, whether it is at the forums or whether it is through our series of user answers. Each site has them: interactive articles in which reader can answer questions, and share their own advice and stories with others.

Here is a collection of the chronic pain site user answers, complete with your responses. Feel free to read through, and of course to add something of your own.

General Chronic Pain Advice:

• Has anyone ever mocked your pain?
• What do you write in your pain journal?
• Pain scales: do they work for you?
• What's your favorite pain scale?

Coping With Specific Chronic Pain Conditions:

• Tips for coping with arthritis.
• Living with fibromyalgia: what's your advice?
• How do you cope with chronic back pain?
• Chronic nerve pain: share your coping strategies.
• Tips for coping with chronic pelvic pain (CPP).
• How do you cope with pudendal neuralgia?
• Pregnancy and pelvic pain: would you do it again?

Experiences With Painkillers:

• Have you ever experienced withdrawal symptoms?
• Have painkillers ever made you fail a drug test?

Don't see what you are looking for? Please contact me at pain@aboutguide.com.