What Chronic Pain Taught Me About Motherhood
Editor's Note: Darisse Smith is a columnist for the National Pain Report who writes on her experiences as a chronic pain sufferer. I used to…
My Story
Pills for Breakfast: Reflecting on My Two Year ‘Pain-niversary’
It took me two years to figure out that I could paint the top of my prescription bottles with nail polish so that in the…
Featured Pain Art: “Jon’s Bad Day”
On November 7th of 2000 my son was driving to work in Prescott, Arizona in his old VW van. A pickup truck smashed into the…
A Pained Life: It’s a Puzzle
I love doing crossword puzzles. But sometimes the clues are just so darn obvious. Like the other day. The clue was “red and black” for…
Living with Pain: Psychological Trauma and Pain
My friend Bobby and I decided it was too hot on a June afternoon in Kentucky to continue playing basketball on the court outside our…
Pills for Breakfast: We Need More Chronic Pain Awareness
Man, my medications make me so freaking tired. Like seriously, I’ve been off work for nearly two weeks because of the holidays, and I basically…
My Story: Pain and Friendship
I have degenerative disc disease, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and Facet joint degeneration. I created and am the administrator of a Facebook support group for people suffering…
My Story: Finding a Way through the Fog
I do not have any medical training, but I do have fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. At the beginning of this journey, I was also a…