chillgamesh-the-swing:

youngchronicpain:

• take a hot bath with scented epsom salt (or just plain)
  
• use the ice pack you’ve been neglecting in your freezer
• heating pad (of course)
• take your meds
• heating blanket for all over aches..warm
• lie on the cold tile floor (okay maybe this one is just me) don’t forget your cane to help you get back up
• listen to music with over ear headphones and close your eyes, try to block out how loud the pain is with the music you love
• ice bath (honestly really worth it in the strangest way. a good kind of numb)
• biofreeze or a prescription topical cream for pain
• lidocaine patches
• cbd oil  
• a tens unit, they have portable ones nowadays and everything (if you get your PT to recommend it your insurance can pay for a good amount of the cost)
• eat something you really like to give yourself a tiny mental boost to Deal with it all

laying on the floor is good especially if you have joint/back issues like mine, just stretch allllll of that shit out, take a break from fighting gravity all the time