Welcome-Please read before posting

[Morning Glory]

Welcome to our new forum.

This forum has the potential for problems so it is up on a trial basis.

This forum is for members in recovery who struggle with pain management. Please keep posts on topic. It is not a forum to debate clean time in relationship to prescription medication. Threads that turn into a debate over clean time will be closed or posts will be removed.

Suggested Topics:

Accountability when using prescribed pain medication.

Alternatives to pain medication such as:

Mind-Body Therapies
Acupuncture
Aromatherapy
Biofeedback
Chiropractic
Homeopathy
Hydrotherapy
Hypnosis
Magnetic field therapy
Massage
Meditation
Naturopathy
Relaxation and breathing techniques
Yoga

Please keep in mind that some members of Soberrecovery are in recovery for addiction to many pain medications and post so that your sharing and experience does not trigger those who may be reading. Keep the focus on recovery and not "detailed experience" with medications being used.

Posts that contain information or experience with illegal substances or street drugs used for pain management will be removed.

No medical advice!

Please discuss all treatment options with your physician.

[serenityqueen]

I am so happy to see this forum on here. I have pain mgt. issues and I think this is going to be a wonderful addition to SR.

God Bless whoever put this into play and I truly hope everyone will respect this forum.

Thank You,
Judy

[nandm]

Thank you for starting this forum. I do hope that all of us respect the guidelines so the forum can be kept open as I believe it can be very useful to all of us.

[Morning Glory]

We can all thank Ksos for suggesting the new forum.

[ksos]

To Everyone:

I am so thrilled to see how quickly this wonderful new forum was set up! My own feeling is that it will be a unique place where those of us can share the myriad of topics that exist, and Morning's suggested topics are some which are brand new to me, and I cannot wait to look into aome of the alternative methods that are listed...

Thanks to all of the Sober Recovery staff for responding so fast in the creation of the forum.

[Rusty Zipper]

MG, thanks for bringing this new forum here...

i live with someone in pain management, and have lost one in pain management too...

this forum will be a huge benefit to me... prob wont be do'n much post'n, just a hell of a lot of read'n!

rz

[scaredykat]

Thanks Morning glory. I have chronic pain too. It will be a good forum to talk about with other people with the same problem in recovery.

[Proserpina]

Thank you so much for this new forum..it arrived just when I really needed it. I think that talking to others in the same situation will help me greatly, and I'd like to try to help those same people whenever I can.

A big thank you to Ksos and Morning Glory for setting this up.

[kentuckyfrogman]

This is one GREAT Idea ..... I'm glad someone is willing to take it on!

[kentuckyfrogman]

I've been sober a long time and delt with Migraien pain even longer .... it is one tough pair deal with every day

[kentuckyfrogman]

One word of caution. New methods of pain management usually mean new types of meds. I've have learned the hard way to do exactly what I was told to do with them and not to add or substract to them. I nearly when over the edge. But IF I follow my Doctors' insturctions correctly things start to work out better. Seems as an adict for so many years I'm used to medicating myself. And If I am to deal with a chronic pain issue in recovery I need to act responsively. There are a lot of new meds and methods of dealing with pain like biofeedback (my favorite) I love the challange of controling the machine! (ok I like control .. could do worse hey). anyway do what your told to do without adding to it. It might work. Good luck out there!