Things to do for Chronic Pain
- 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