{"id":1203,"date":"2019-03-23T22:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T22:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosecanyonhealthnwellness.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2019-03-23T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T22:06:49","slug":"living-with-chronic-pain-and-dying-inside-there-is-a-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosecanyonhealthnwellness.com\/living-with-chronic-pain-and-dying-inside-there-is-a-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with Chronic Pain and Dying Inside? There is a Way Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you in pain? Have you been suffering for years without adequate relief? Then maybe you can relate with Linda, who had been in and out of pain center clinics for her chronic low back pain.<\/p>\n

Don’t Suffer<\/h2>\n

Every day for the past six years, she wakes up with stiffness and muscle spasm and could barely lift even a grocery bag. She used to mow her lawn, but the pain had restricted most of her daily activities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes when the pain was so bad, lying down on the bed makes the pain worse. Her mind is fogged from taking opioid medications, and nausea and constipation served to increase her suffering.<\/p>\n

Her desire to socialize with her friends had dipped to an all-time low. She wished the doctor could do something more, other than refilling her prescription and referring her to physical therapy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I was like Linda. I had suffered from chronic pain and from the hands of many traditional health care providers. I could not accept there were no other options or treatment plans to relieve my pain<\/strong>. So, I did my research. Surely, there must be an alternative way.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I found better ways to deal with chronic pain. I have spent the last years helping others manage their chronic pain using the integrative approach<\/strong>, so they don\u2019t suffer like Linda, and I did.<\/p>\n

I know the likes of us are not rare birds out there. Many suffer from some form of chronic condition, especially chronic pain.<\/p>\n

Chronic Conditions on the Rise<\/h2>\n

According to a recent report<\/a>, as of 2014, 60 percent of American adults had at least one chronic condition, and 42 percent had more than one chronic disease, which occurs more on adult women.<\/p>\n

These chronic conditions account for a big pie of health care spending in the country. Chronic pain alone is a growing problem with more people taking opioids to relieve their pain<\/strong>. It came to the point that it had become a serious national healthcare concern.<\/p>\n

CDC revealed that about 50 million US adults had chronic pain<\/a> based on the 2016 National Health Interview Survey. Can you imagine how many pain prescriptions doctors write every day?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re suffering from pain on most days or every day for the last 3-6 months, then you have chronic pain. That\u2019s according to the International Association for the Study of Pain.<\/p>\n

And if that pain has limited your life and work activities<\/strong>, then that is a high-impact chronic pain. In 2016, 19.6 million Americans suffered from this type of pain.<\/p>\n

In a separate survey<\/a>, the most common chronic pain identified were:<\/p>\n