150 sats \ 6 replies \ @Cje95 16 Apr \ parent \ on: CJ Wilson / @Str8edgeracer AMA AMA
This was a question I had as well! Especially dealing with the arm injuries he had in his career!
in regards to the arm injuries..
I used to watch all those cheesy marital arts Jean Claude Van Damme movies when I was a kid.
I would go in the backyard and kick the tree, punch stuff, rub a baseball bat on my shins and workout like kickboxer in order to try and 'be tough'
my pain tolerance became super high from that as a 10-14 year old and I never really had an issue with 'pain pills' as a result. I knew that it was a matter of life and death to not get hooked on drugs and I saw oxy or vicadin type stuff as a huge problem.
So, when I got surgery, got my wisdom teeth out, etc I didn't take anything. It became a challenge (like breaking a wood board, but mentally) so I would just get super duper angry and determined, grit my teeth and get through the pain.
When I got older, I started learning how to meditate to calm myself but also to accept that pain is real, it's a process, and it is not in itself an injury- just a somatic response.
an example of this is the chemical burn thing from fight club. I think that movie was from around 2000 so that concept helped me a lot when I was recovering from Tommy John surgery in 2003.
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Thank you for the insight! I have a few medical conditions that are rather... crappy to say the least. Naturally, they don't have a cure and one in particular has resulted in me needing three neurosurgeries. I have watched some of the people I was close with who have these conditions get stuck on the oxy, gabba, and even patch fentanyl and pass so I love your insight into this topic! I tried to get off oxy with the last one before my craniocervical fusion was set and that kinda screwed up my recovery for a bit.
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I think Gabapentin for example is a great theraputic for nerve conditions. It's especially valuable when combined with anti inflammatory stuff in the bony joints like the knee and elbow...for instance with Diclofenac- it soothes arthritic pain and allows for more normal motion.
I don't know how it would work as a non-topical pill, that could be wild as it then goes into your whole body.
I don't think you're dealing with anything easy if these are your choices and medications.
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Yeah lol life through me a Kershaw 12-6 curveball big time! I am learning to adjust even though it's been 8 years since the first neurosurgery. When they went into my head through the base they roughly cut all the nerves across the entire back of my head which really did help with all of the initial healing.
When I tried gabba for the nerve pain it is safe to say I did not have a great reaction so I had to cut it out. Even though what I am saying sounds awful compared to how messed up I was for a couple of years (the condition is rare and not a lot of dr.s know how to look for it or how to treat it) the surgery gave me my life back. It's not perfect but it is so much better than it was before.
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I will actually go to the hospital back home and have them give me a pain bolo before I take opioids... I am jealous of the people who didn't have the emotional crazy reaction I had because otherwise, it would have been great for the nerve damage I have from what I hear!
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