Common sense and pain relief
by Pain Coach on Friday, August 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Last night I had some friends for dinner, they brought there 7 week old granddaughter with them because the baby’s mum was in real pain. She had mastitis, which is when the ducts block when breastfeeding. It can be excruciatingly painful, and was so for my friends daughter. Anyways we obviously got to talking about pain.
One of the difficulties in this type of situation is getting relief. The young woman concerned was having panadol for relief. Now for any real serious type of pain panadol is just not going to cut it. It won’t work for real pain. The sense I have in this type of situation is this. When we are in pain, we do whatever we can to relieve the pain. We don’t just grit our teeth and bear it. We get help. We get the relief we need. This is often missed when dealing with pain. People often just put up with it and put themselves and often others through unnecessary suffering by not doing what needs to be done.
In this situation what needed to be done was getting some stronger pain relief. That was my advice to my friend, to get her daughter some strong pain relief fast. The facts were the young mum in pain was already on antibiotics and had stopped breast feeding, so there was no risk that the pain relief was going to impact the baby. Common sense would then say, deal with the pain. Get relief.
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Thank you for your posts – I have enjoyed reading through your site and your articles. This one in particular struck a chord with my as I have a mother who refuses to treat even acute pain but sees her suffering as some sort of badge of honor and even after a mastectomy did not take pain medication she was sent home with. I suffer with a number of chronic pain conditions and she is always telling me “I never…” (fill in the blank)implying that it is just ridiculous for ME to be taking or seeking ANY type of pain relief from medication or medical help and at 37 one of the conditions I am being treated for is arthritis in my spine and bulging discs which she told me last week that everyone has a bit of and my father had some at his last doctors visit (and he probably did given that he is 76 years old)and I need to get past. I appreciate your writings and your experience and I have also learned the value of embracing the pain and learning from it rather then trying to escape and for me, rather then fighting it. Thanks for your example, and your inspiration!