• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    6 days ago

    I had surgery where, afterwards, it hurt if I did certain activities including walking.

    The doctors said it was better to walk sooner than later as walking and other activities would help me heal and get back to normal.

    Yeah, I was in pain, but it meant that I would recover faster.

  • jumbonipples@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    My coworker took leave to get back surgery because her back was messed up and she was always in pain.

    Now she can hardly walk after massive complications and multiple surgeries.

    Anyone I’ve ever met who had a back surgery say that they wish they never did it. It could be confirmation bias on my end.

    BUT she told me that she wishes so badly that she would have just pushed through the pain. She was fully functional and working a pretty active job. Now she sits at a desk somewhere part-time.

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      7 days ago

      The only person I’ve seen actually benefit from back surgery is my sister getting rods put along her spine for her scoliosis. It helped her tremendously. She has some recurring nerve pain from it, but her organs aren’t being fucked up anymore and her back doesn’t hurt constantly. She also got so much taller.

  • PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Pain is temporary, therefore pain is fine if it leads to long term gain. It is not fine when it leads to long term loss.

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        7 days ago

        Wow, what a great point.

        Too bad we are talking about pain and not an extreme form of pain.

        Obviously there are exceptions.

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          7 days ago

          “Extreme form”.

          I don’t think you realise how age-privileged your comment is. Chronic pain isn’t extreme or even something only a minority of people encounter, oh no. Most people will know what chronic pain is after some four decades on this Earth, be it mild or severe.

          So even if it is just mild pain, you can’t “push through” it.

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Depends on the pain.

    If it’s joints or ligaments, stop immediately. Coddle the shit out of them.

    Muscles, treat them like dirt, get shit done.

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      7 days ago

      Quipy, and dead on about the joints and ligments, but bad advice on the muscles.

      Go ahead and tear a muscle and then enjoy either surgery or spending months/years waiting for it to heal, same as a joint or ligament tear.

      We are resilient in general, but any sudden “treat them like dirt” action can fuck up either. If you want to “get shit done” you need to build to it, grease the groove until your body adapts to the motion.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    A reason to push through pain? Because you want to get home.

    My eight year old complained that his hands were so cold they hurt, so he decided to take his gloves off and lay down in the snow…

    I mean, I can’t even… Kids are just fucking stupid.

    Anyway, I tried to tell him that the only way to really make his hands warm again, was to get back in the car so we could head home. (Obviously my plea had no effect, he just broke down into tears and accusations, seemingly accepting his imminent demise)

    The point is, sometimes the only way out is through. Sometimes you just have to keep moving even if the process hurts.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    If you can’t do anything about it, and pushing through isn’t going to make matters worse.

    Or if you know it won’t last forever and you can manage it.

    Sometimes the only way out is through - like with grief, or childbirth, you cannot get past it without just feeling it.