If you could choose to remove one pain of yours forever, what would it be?

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1. Fingers. Stiffness & pain, worse at night. Scares me half to death in case it’s early arthritis. I’d be rid of it because of my instruments, right now I just ignore it!

2. Grief

3. I would choose to never get attached in a relationship

4. The pain of always feeling like i’m not enough/worthless.

5. I’ll use the sweeping “back pain” since it covers both my sciatica and arthritis in the lower vertebrae

6. I think I have trigger finger.

   If I make a tight fist with my left hand, there’s kind of a locking and then it’s really painful to open my ring finger and middle finger. Middle has a slight thing when I close it, but the ring finger just kinda hurts. At the base of my left finger, the joint is very tender and sometimes needs to be popped back into place. It’s very easy to dislocate.

   Not totally sure if that’s what trigger finger is. Gotta get it checked out soon.

7. My chronic headaches.

8. My pain in the ass sister

9. Lower back pain

10. Itching.

11. The thing that changing weather does to once fractured bones, and joints, and such.

    At some point, or other in my life, I have broken pretty much everything breakable in myself, except my jaw, and most of my skull. Broken bones, cartilage detachment, dislocated joints, open fractures, all that jazz. If it comes from heavy, swift, sharp, pointy, or some combination of those things, I probably had all kinds of injury you can think of. A stronger wind, a rainy day, or a sudden change in temperature, and I feel like a 120 year old man, with rheumatism. If I put on clothes, that are not from the softest hairs, combed out of a baby alpacca’s innocent soul, with a million thread count, and someone so much as sneezes next to me, the wind of it is like sandpaper, scraping on my bare nerve endings.

12. the one I get from waking up every goddamn morning

13. That is a tough one. Between my spondylosis of the L5 with 2 degenerating disks of the L4 and L3 or the degeneration of my neck with the mild torn rotator cuffs…I think the shoulder/neck pain impacts me more.

    The rest of my ‘Fuck I hurt’ pain being 50 and doing stupid shit when younger I can deal with.

    Hey, guys. If young and on reading this. Don’t do stupid shit that will hurt later, and if your truely love yourself. Go. To. The. Fucking. Doctor.

    Don’t be like me.

14. Wife

15. Like physical pain? I broke my spine when I was 14 and have been in constant pain ever since. I got an MRI last week and apparently I’ve also suffered several more stress fractures than I knew about, one of my discs is being crushed and might lead to paralysis, and I also have arthritis is my spine. I’d get rid of all that if I could.

16. Pain from getting hit in the balls

17. Losing the ones you love

18. Loneliness.

19. My ex wife.

20. My diabetes

21. The pain of inadequacy

22. My mental illness.

23. Anxiety

24. Guilt and fear

25. Grief, crippling anxiety, catastrophising every little thing, inability to stand up to certain people without crumbling. Take your pick

26. Back.

27. Pain is there to indicate a problem. I’d rather not remove it. 😅

28. Back.

29. Nausea. Nothing cripples me like nausea

30. Toe stubs

31. My foot pain.

32. Body Ache! I didn’t have it for two consecutive days (don’t ask why) And I feeel sooo gooood!!!!! I’m much more energetic, productive and much more motivated to just do things!

    ETA: specifically Back Ache ofc! That’s the root cause!

33. My ex fiancée

34. Osteoarthritis in my big toes. Aaa buh bye.

35. Loss

36. All the pain my ex wife put me through.

37. CPTSD, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and the list goes on. I’m just… done.

38. Anxiety.

39. As someone who gets poked with needles twice a day, three times a week for dialysis, I’d love to get rid of needle pain forever.

40. Avascular necrosis in hips from covid

41. PTSD from my childhood. I’m tired of walking around like it doesn’t bother me and being everyone else’s rock when if I open up I’m always one upped by some bullshit story about them.