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My Fight With Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia
My chronic pain started as a teenager. I’m 53 now. Mostly, I suffer from back pain, rib pain, joint pain, migraines, and facial pain. Ten...
How My Chronic Illness Blog Helped My Chronic Pain
My journey with chronic illness has spanned over half my life. As a young teen, I received diagnoses for multiple mental health issues, including...
What It’s Like to Have Bipolar Disorder: A Personal Journey
Overview
Personal Bipolar Disorder stories can help others better understand the daily struggles. Below is just one of many to be told. Please read on...
What It’s Really Like Living With an Invisible Illness
Many thanks to our guest writer Pamela Jessen for sharing her powerful testimony below on what it's like living with an invisible illness.
When you're...
Finding That ‘One Thing’ Chronic Pain Sufferers Know to be True
Throughout the month of September, chronic pain sufferers can rest easier knowing their stories are being heard. In 2001, the American Chronic Pain Association...
MLB All-Star Darryl Strawberry’s New Book Sheds Light on Addiction and...
MLB All-Star Darryl Strawberry has triumphed once again, not only on the baseball diamond, but also in life, as showcased in his new book,...
My Story: Life with Two Chronic Illnesses
Hello all, my name is Bethany. I am 19 years old, I reside in London and I live with chronic pain. I started Blogging...
Review of Darryl Strawberry’s Book: Don’t Give Up on Me
Darryl Strawberry’s new book, Don’t Give Up on Me, takes the reader on a journey through the MLB All-Star’s life, starting with his childhood...
Four Ways to Be a Better Caregiver
How one husband learned how to be a better caregiver to his wife during her fight against breast cancer.
In her fight against breast cancer,...
Pain Profile: Rob Saffer Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Rob Saffer runs two nonprofit organizations and lives in Woodstock, New York.
Pain Resource: What do you do for a living?
Rob Saffer: I work from...
Profile: From Marathon Runner to Pain Patient to Health Coach
For most of her life, Angela Gaffney, 41, was an athletic person. She played sports in high school and college, ran 5K races, and...
Dogs and Arthritis
How one dog with the disease became an Internet sensation
Swims in Lake Superior were Schoep the dog's daily arthritic therapy. After Schoep and his...
Pain Profile of John Murphy: Post-Concussion Syndrome
From Marathoner to Pain Patient — and Back Again
Neckties and Migraines: What You Should Know
This Father's Day, please send migraine relief for my wife, in lieu of flowers (or neckties)
One woman’s journey to relieve the emotional pain of losing a...
A partner's death leaves a profound void, but it can be healed
By Lisa Davis
When I asked Shannon M. Regan what she experienced right after...
Jeanine’s joints
By Margaret Jaworski
Photo Courtesy of Jeanine Yutani: Jeanine Yutani (far right) with fellow riders Justin Baker and Laurie Miller
Three years running, Jeanine Yutani biked...
The Emotional Pain of First Responders
Our Country's Bravest Face Their Own Emotional Pain in the Aftermath of the Boston Bombings and Texas Explosion
By Lisa Davis
In the wake of this...
Courage by Design
A Daughter's Caring Creates A Gem of an Idea
By Margaret Jaworski
When Stephanie Hansen first learned that her mother, Sue, had breast cancer, she struggled...