Here is a great article that helps people understand we who have chronic pain much better. Great to send to family members and friends who care enough to want to know what you go through. When you get to this page, there is more than just the bit in the top box. Scroll down below the box with the first picture.
Wonderful article.
The point regarding the immediate need to sit, lay, rest, or take a pill rings so true for me. (as did most of the article)
People don't realize that when I say I need to sit it is because I feel like I could pass out from the pain, I get a flash of hot and then nauseous in a way that makes me feel as if I might explode on the spot. Literally jump right out of my skin.
I am sitting here alone today. Having a terrible flare after my trip to Seattle to model at the Comic Con convention. The first day i was there I was in so much pain after 3 hrs of my shift that I could do nothing but flee back to my hotel room and eat percocet and stand in the hot shower. When pain get so bad you cannot get comfort from laying or resting it is beyond a frustration. I was not even able to get food that night.
but my insurance carrier has stated that I can work a simple job like what I was doing there full time. Yeah, and look over there...pigs are flying