75 Quotes About Chronic-pain

Surrender is an incredibly difficult topic in light of chronic illness, because loss is often continued and sustained.

I'm in pain all the time,' I said, 'and if I gave into it then I'd do nothing.

Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing.

Access to pain management is a universal human right

The proper management of pain remains, after all, the most important obligation, the main objective and the crowning achievement of every physician.

If I only could explainhow much I missthat precious moment when I was freefrom the shackles of chronic pain.

That pain moves when you move; it mutters between every breath; it spikes your ears; it rips. You think pain can’t be any more horrible than that.Until you discover that the well is bottomless. There’s always more.

It's so hard to watch the person you love be in pain. It's a natural impulse to want to fix it, and not being able to is uncomfortable. Remaining in that state of discomfort over time is even harder. Being in a relationship with someone in chronic pain is like a chronic pain condition in and of itself.

He spoke three simple sentences and I understood why my injuries are permanent. Every hard moment, all the pain, had prepared me to walk beside my son. In a heartbeat, it was worth it. A decade later, it still is.