It’s Amazing

2016-10-10 Miss Poison Honesty, Life, Musings, Pieces Of Me, Poison In Lethal Doses, Writing Botox, Chronic Pain, Doctors, Fibromyalgia, Health, Honesty, Life, Lupus, Lyme Disease, Massachusetts, Medical Treatment, Migraines, Multiple Sclerosis, Musings, Pain Patients, Pieces Of Me, Poison In Lethal Doses, Spine Pain, The Medical Community, Writing

It's amazing how quickly life shifts. You think you know your place in this world, and the direction in which you are going. Then, often suddenly and unexpectedly, a letter, phone call, e-mail, or some form of communique shatters the floor beneath your feet. You're left standing and asking yourself "Why?", or in my case … Continue reading It’s Amazing

Why Women Have Trouble Getting Care for Chronic Pain

Link 2016-09-28 Miss Poison Chronic Pain, Honesty Chronic Pain, Women

http://www.chronicdiseases.info/why-women-have-trouble-getting-care-for-chronic-pain/

Letter To People Without Chronic Pain

Link 2016-09-26 Miss Poison Chronic Pain Chronic Pain, Understanding

http://personalhealthrecords.press/letter-to-people-without-chronic-pain/

What Colder Weather Does To My Chronic Illness And Pain

Link 2016-09-242016-09-22 Miss Poison Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain Articles, Caitlyn Kalustian, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Cold Weather

https://themighty.com/2016/09/how-cold-weather-makes-my-pain-and-illness-worse/

The Trouble With Chronic Pain

Quote 2016-09-23 Miss Poison Quotes Chronic Pain, Quotes, Robert J. Wiersema

“The trouble with chronic pain is that it is so easy to become accustomed to it, both mentally and physically. At first it's absolutely agonizing; it's the only thing you think about, like a rock in your shoe that rubs your foot raw with every step. Then the constant rubbing, the pain and the limp … Continue reading The Trouble With Chronic Pain

People Assume…

Quote 2016-09-22 Miss Poison Quotes Chronic Pain, Emm Roy, Emotional Pain, Invisible Illness, Pain, Quotes, Stigma

"People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin, like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. My heart is a prison of 'Have you tried's? Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better? Have you tried not being sad, not being sick? Have you tried being … Continue reading People Assume…

The Problem With Being Called ‘Strong’ For Not Expressing Your Pain

Link 2016-09-222016-09-22 Miss Poison Honesty, Pain, Writing Articles, Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Morgan McCardell, Pain, Writing

https://themighty.com/2016/09/why-its-ok-to-talk-about-your-pain-and-sadness/ Memo From Lisa: This is for every stupid, ignorant person who looks at me and thinks I am perfectly healthy and can do the things they want me to do with ease. It angers the hell out of me that you cannot see what I contain on the inside; that you don't even bother … Continue reading The Problem With Being Called ‘Strong’ For Not Expressing Your Pain

DEA Feels Backlash From Plans To Ban Kratom Plant

Link 2016-09-16 Miss Poison Kratom Articles, Chronic Pain, Invisible Illnesses, Kratom, Portland Press Herald

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/09/15/dea-feels-backlash-from-plans-to-ban-plant/ I don't think the DEA thought this through. Their statistics keep changing and quite frankly, are low by most people's standards. There are people DYING from various forms of chronic pain because pain management clinics are taking away their medicine and doctors are afraid to prescribe the medicine they've responsibly taken from day one. … Continue reading DEA Feels Backlash From Plans To Ban Kratom Plant