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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.
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.
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.
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.
Chronic pain isn’t temporary though.
Wow, what a great point.
Too bad we are talking about pain and not an extreme form of pain.
Obviously there are exceptions.
“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.
My tattoo looks great and I’m glad I didn’t research how painful it would be!
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.
If you’re going through hell, don’t stop.
I currently have femoroacetabular impingements, a torn labrum in my left hip, back spasms, and nerve damage throughout my left leg. For my work, I have to pay bills and rent while medical-leave pay only covers 70% of my income. I can barely save enough as it is, so I keep working.
I’ve already had one surgery with two more expected, the final one ideally being a new hip. I’ll use my personal time for recovery and stretch it out with medical leave as needed, but I can’t afford to stop right now. Eventually I want to buy a house and marry my girlfriend.
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.
Which kinds of pain? As a long distance runner, I have increased my threashold for physical pain and all other sorts of discomfor, so pushing through that kind of pain and other misery definitely paid off.
Maybe there will be bacon
Because the baby has got to come out somehow.
And your poop. Eat more fiber.
Two reasons.
- Because you don’t get what you want out of life by running from pain, you just have to embrace the suck.
- Because I’ve had chronic back pain for the past ~20 years and there’s nothing my doctors can do about it, my only alternative to pushing through the pain is to make myself unable to feel pain anymore, and despite the pain I still quite enjoy life.
Glory
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.
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.
Life has its ups and downs. When you have pain, you’re in the down. Look forward to the up at some point after.
