Since the earliest days of Patient Talk we have always been interested in how our readers manage their pain.

With many of our readers having multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and diabetes in particular the whole area of pain management is an important part of our mission as a blog.

So when one of our readers asked us “What treatments do your readers take for pain?” we thought that this would be an excellent opportunity to find out.

So that is the purpose of the poll below.

But we would also like to take the discussion a little bit further. While we have looked generally at pain management in the past today we want to do something a bit different.

Once you have taken part in the poll (for which many thanks) it would be very grateful if you could tell us a bit more in the comments section below.  In particular could you rate the treatments in terms of your own pain outcomes.  A bit like this blog on TENS machines and pain.

Many thanks in advance and we are confident your comments will be of great help to others on their pain journey.

 

CindyJones1	We should be able to choose more than one. I do take medication but I also have a spinal cord stimulator, my trusty heating pad. PT exercises and therapeutic exercises given to me by my therapist. I had to get one due to my adhesive arachnoiditis, she has given me a lot of tools.
patienttalk patienttalk.org	MancFlickChick Great tip – many thanks
MancFlickChick	When my fingers felt like they were being stabbed by thousands of tiny knifes (this doesn’t happen with everyone) the only thing that did any good was to put them in cold water which worked instantly, much better than the incredibly strong pain killers the ER staff gave me which did nothing.