Chronic Injury/Pain Sufferers Unite!

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Teeth are like the one gene that I got the good one of I think haha! I didn't have insurance for a bit so I hadn't been to the dentist in over a year. The hygienist told me my teeth looked fantastic and said she was jealous of how good my saliva was. I've never been complimented on my saliva before! :D

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You're so lucky!

Teeth problems are the worst! You can't eat the things you want to. Nothing too crunchy or your teeth will break(happened to me), nothing with sugar or it'll hurt, you have to be careful chewing gum because if you have a cavity the gum will go into it and HURT, and when I get a cavity it becomes bad fast. On the tooth that broke, it was so bad that I would have to take a dentists hook into it in order to get food out of it because the water flosser couldn't get that far into my tooth. SO GLAD that I now have a cap right there now!
My mom was able to get us some great insurance and it covered every filling. She only had to pay $40 for each root canal, insurance covered the rest.

My saliva is so acidic, that's what causes problems. My boyfriend has the opposite problem, his isn't acidic enough and he gets gingivitis really easily.
Hopefully our future children will end up right in the middle lol.

Lets see all my injuries from football as a kid

6th grade - broke my hand and messed my back up pretty bad.

7th grade - tore my acl. First game of the season ):

8th grade - back problems reocurring, bruised ribs

Freshman year - broken shoulder, bruised hip

Sophomore year - dislocated shoulder (same one too)

Junior year - 2 concussions

Senior year - got my appendix removed so I didn't play that year and missed my opportunities for a college scholarship.

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COPD here.....chest always hurts every day.....

I've got a herniated disk in my lower lumbar region. I've got a bunch of core strengthening exercises that I do regularly to keep it in check. Sometimes it works. :rolleyes:

Years ago I also had a herniated disk in my neck and ended up having my C5-C6 vertebrae fused. I ended up with a metal plate in my neck and I had to wear a horse collar for 6 months. It was really painful and frankly didn't do that much good, my neck still hurts... :mad:

I swore I'd never go through that again which is why I went with all Phys therapy for the lumbar disk issue. Some days it hurts so bad I literally just roll out of bed and hit the floor just to get the pain over with. :O

If I don't keep a strong stretching regiment going, my lower back will go out a whack after about 10 situps.

My knees creek because the cartilage got bruised back in my martial arts days. The sometimes aches with weather changes. Makes me feel like an old man predicting rain with his knees.

My ankles have abnormally long tendons so I tend to sprain them a lot. I could just be standing up and lean one way or another and one of them cave on me. I creep people out a bit when I show them I can literally stand on my ankles because they bend so far.

I have a nasty old neck injury....it is tolerable if I go to the acupuncturist periodically. Otherwise it gets to the point that I can't turn my head. The worst thing is really migraines though (possibly the result of numerous head injuries, it seems). I'm really good at avoiding my triggers, but when I do get a migraine I'm totally incapacitated. I get vision disruption, extreme nausea, and I get so sensitive to light that I can't even open my eyes, no one can touch me, every sound is awful, etc...I kinda laugh when someone posts on Facebook about how they have "the worst migraine." I can't imagine getting anywhere near a computer during one of mine.

This is the strangest post on a reptile site I've ever seen lol

I was born with really high blood pressure which caused some nerves in my ears to be damaged which caused hearing problems(not deaf but a pain in the ass).
I was also born with kidney disease and had a transplant in Aug of 1999.
In 2009 I was diagnosed with both Crohn's and PSC(Primary Sclerosing Colingitis), PSC like Crohn's is a auto immune disease.
About a month ago after getting a cat scan for headaches and dizziness I was told I have a cyst on my brain, not to mention i was also recently told I have some strange bone growth on my hips.

Well that's me in a nutshell lol

Tag your it,

Stephen

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I have 33 degree scoliosis in my lower lumbar and race ATV's... My back and I do not get along :P

For starters I have rheumatoid arthritis in my right knee that I have had for about 11 years, a bum left shoulder that I injured in a car accident at age 19 (can't put arm over head for too long), carpal tunnel in both hands, chronic migraines for about 20 years, and about 5 years ago diagnosed with PCOS (poly cystic ovarian syndrome) which before I got pregnant I had cysts that ruptured every once in a while and that was excruciating.

Random little stuff for me..Collarbone that did not heal right, 2 knees and one shoulder than got redone, carpal tunnel in both wrist (one fix job down one to go), all topped off with the fused disk one in my lower back and one in my neck LOL To be honest though I am lucky most of that stuff never really bothers me.