by TPC Admin | May 31, 2022 | Caregivers, Communication, Coping Techniques, Daily Living, Relationships, Self-Advocacy, Uncategorized |
By Sherry Thorne Our spouses/significant others do not live with the actual, physical pain we do, but they do live with the pain. Our pain affects them in ways we don’t fully understand, just as they do not fully understand the actual pain we feel. They get...
by Teresa Shaffer | Mar 18, 2022 | Communication, Daily Living, Self-Advocacy |
Before being diagnosed with multiple autoimmune disorders and conditions, explaining my pain levels to a healthcare provider was easy. If I had a sprained wrist or a broken bone, they could see the injury. Using the 0 (no pain) to 10 ( the worst imagined) pain scale...
by TPC Admin | May 7, 2018 | Self-Advocacy |
The Ehlers-Danlos Society (EDS) and The Pain Community (TPC) are collaborating on a fun Ehlers-Danlos Awareness Month challenge. We invite you to a coloring challenge using our Zebra image (download below). Print off the picture of our Zentangled Zebra below and color...
by Teresa Shaffer | Sep 9, 2014 | Advocacy, Self-Advocacy |
This is the final entry of a three part series (part one | part two) that I have written regarding the stigma that we as people living pain face daily. I have lived with pain for nearly half of my lifetime. I would love to be able to say that things have changed for...
by Teresa Shaffer | Aug 19, 2014 | Advocacy, Self-Advocacy |
I recently wrote a blog titled, Enough is Enough! Stop the Stigma Against People Living with Pain. This is the second entry sharing the frustration that I, along with other people living with pain, face every day. I am angry, fed up and I am not afraid to talk about...
by Teresa Shaffer | Aug 5, 2014 | Advocacy, Medications, Self-Advocacy, Treatment Options |
It seems like just about every media article talking about pain medications has become a feeding frenzy which reports one side of the story. They take advantage of the uninformed and promote fear with biased and unsubstantiated claims that everyone who is prescribed...
