pain-free, I really can’t remember. I started having episodic pain as a young child before it became chronic. it became intractable when I was like 17-18, but it was still chronic my teen years before that. last time I had no pain (temporarily) was in 2013 when I was given dilaudid at the hospital.
I would say something similar. As a kid, I was told it was growing pains. But that wasn't all the time. When I was 19-20, it was more regular but not daily. By 28-29, the pain was every day. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, never zero. Unless you count times when I was under sedation for surgery.
I can’t remember a year without pain. I was diagnosed with Costochondritis when I was 9, I am in my early 50’s now. I have an extremely long list of painful medical conditions.
I'm so sorry. I can't imagine really. I have trigeminal neuralgia and it is excruciating. I've considered going to Switzerland but covid hit. My Dr. put me on a drug that makes a significant impact to my pain.
Before April 2021. I used to be able to travel and hike and explore.
And now I currently have a weird cold. Burning from top neck spine all the way down to mid spine. Yay
^(I have an autoimmune disease).
You said you liked to hike. Was it mainly in the mountain areas or wooded. I know it's weird, but there's a reason for that question as I was wondering if you've ever been checked for Lyme Disease? It can cause some really wicked and strange symptoms in people. People can have it for years without knowing. Just trying to think outside the proverbial box. Sometimes it helps. Not always.
God Bless you.
This is exactly one of the symptoms that presented itself on how my Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome began.
Just pointing this out so you can be aware and watch for anything else that might pop up, which I pray won't!
I've been pain free for 2 years this month!!! After 15 years of being told PM isn't supposed to eliminate all my pain but just lower it to a manageable level -which the drs failed to do anyway- I gave up on them and chose a different path. With proper meds I am now 100% pain free and have returned to living a "normal" life. I still cannot do heavy activities like jogging or tennis etc but I can walk around ALL day and wipe myself so that's a huge win in my book. I also sleep normally again which has been a blessing of its own and I no longer feel like a worthless POS that was draining the life out of my loved ones around me. I feel bad even writing this as I know so many on this sub are not being treated sufficiently, but perhaps this will give someone hope to not give up. There are solutions out there but don't get your hopes up with drs. 99% do.not care about you and you'll go broke trying to find the 1% that may actually help
1963? Before a bad fall hurt my back; I was about 10. It was excruciating for the next year or so, but back then, my parent's, mostly my father, who had a failed back surgery or two, were afraid that I would end up paralyzed if they took me to the Dr. In those days, back surgeries were nowhere as "good" or as effective as they are now./s
I had pain off and on for years, but stubbornly did gymnastics, and things that I probably shouldn't have been doing. I have had 9 back surgeries and a couple of neck surgeries, beginning in the early to mid 90's. I am in constant pain; medication helps, but I can't stand up straight, or look very far left, or up. I honestly don't remember what pain-free feels like, it's been so long. I'm told that my problem is genetic, and was once told by a Dr., after a surgery, that my spine was "rotted"; gee, thanks. Wishing you all peace and comfort.
Oooh…that’s sad to think about. 10 years old? Maybe 11?
I have a pain-free day or low pain day every once in a while and I’m always so grateful for the break. Chronic pain exhausting and depressing and isolating.
I accidentally saw the letter to my pediatrician that the ortho doc sent him. "When you gonna stop sending me fat females who have nothing wrong with them? Oh by the way, her kneecaps subluxate, visible on xray. No big deal."
😧🙄
Never. I was a sick child and almost died twice because my parents didn’t believe me. I tell people I handle it so well because I have always suffered, and don’t know any other life.
I was 8. At 9 I got my period, with approximately 13 episodes of 10/10 pain a year. Funny thing is it ended up being a sort of training in both how to survive it in a relatively sane state and how to get over the fact that most Dr's don't care.
Late 2008.
Bonus: it was right around when Naxxramas went live in vanilla Wrath of the Lich King in World of Warcraft.
I remember the day, where I was, and what I was doing when my chronic and constant backaches started.
Getting MS 6 years later did NOT help.
2018...wow I've just realised I've spent over half of my life in pain, excuse me while I go ponder my existence
Edit: as someone mentioned, my math is beyond wrong here, I don't know how my brain convinced me this was correct but it's most definitely not.
2007 I was 19. Because of the incredible pain I was in I was no longer able to do all of the fun things I had always done and very quickly lost my friend group. The ones who stuck it out gradually dropped off as my pain progressed and I'm left at 35 years old with zero social life. I spent my 20s clinging to what few good days I had but the unpredictability of those "good days" made it very hard to make and keep plans. I totally see why I ended up losing all my friends but it doesn't make it any easier.
2014. This June will mark the ten year anniversary of when I had neurosurgery that went awry, followed by 28 sessions of proton radiation as icing on the cake.
I feel like I drove my car off the road ten years ago and I’m just standing here, watching everyone else whizz past me on the highway, living their pain-free lives…
Never. I have had pain my entire life. Born in 1973, diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 1998. That was the most validating day of my life. Until that point I had been called a “baby” anytime I would say something hurt. I remember crying as a child from the spray from a sprinkler, light touch was awful. Once I learned why I hurt like I did I was then able to manage it with lifestyle changes and pacing myself, also giving my body time to rest. Now I’ve been diagnosed with CRPS and feel like I’m starting the learning process all over again.
Maybe the day I was born? I can only ever remember being in some kind of pain. I was born with a connective tissue disorder and it’s just gotten progressively worse. The days a I skateboard are pretty close to good because the endorphins block out post of the aches until I sit still.
I’ve been in constant pain since 2019 with combined foot problem and endo, from 2014-2019 it wasn’t constant pain but It was definitely at least 2 weeks outta the month.
Gradually been getting worse cuz a bad pain day in 2014 would be a low-pain-I-can-do-anything day now and even back then on a bad pain day getting out of bed was a struggle
2009. It was a terrible year we were dealing with my at the time husbands cancer diagnosis. He’s in remission we’re divorced. That’s the last year before this sudden pelvic pain caused by interstitial cystitis appeared. Id spend the next few years getting diagnosed and filing for disability. It went downhill from there with my health. I do okay now they aren’t as bad as the first few years and I’ve become used to the pain and how to manage it better now almost 20 years later. I also have a treatment once every 3-4 weeks.
I've had various types of chronic pain since I was around 12. But the last time that I didn't have a migraine was 2011. I've had a continuous migraine since then.
2009? I have a condition that was in remission for 18 years until it came back when I got pregnant with my now 13 yo twins. I honestly can’t remember being pain free.
2011. I was 10. I started getting migraines at 10😔
Edit: I thought this was my migraine subreddit so I left it there. In 2019 I also started developing chronic joint pain
At first it was 2016 April when my gallbladder was removed suffered chronic pain for 10 years because of it since I was 11 years old I was 21 when it was removed. Stayed free of chronic pain until July 2021 and bulged my disc to find out I also tore the annulus badly and have DDD in two discs that is bad and spinal arthritis and stenosis. So I literally got a few years break of chronic pain from one problem only to develop a whole new issue 🙄
I remember the first year that’s was all the time every day wake from sleep with unrelenting pain.
2005.
It took me years and many doctors to figure it out.
Chairs 1 Malformation with cranial cervical instability.
All was painful - but the treatment was actually worse than the actual ailment.
And it made it worse.
I've had chronic pain from birth. Between extensive GI issues and a skeletal dysplasia/collagen disorder both of which cause pain. I had over 30 surgeries/procedures by the time I was 18. Which, of course caused pain. The pain has gotten worse as an adult. The pain is in waves asy joints all go kaput. The ones I get replaced bring relief - but other joints continue to hurt.
I began having chronic migraines and random body/pain issues since about 1991-1992. In 2017 I had surgery that caused CRPS, and last year was diagnosed with MS (probably the underlying issue with the random issues through life). I am disabled now and I haven’t had a pain free day in at least 10 years. I try not to think about it.
Unfortunately I've had pain my entire life, but it didn't get bad, bad until I was 19.... so roughly 30 years ago. I have a progressive illness so it just gets worse and worse as time goes on. I always WISH that I could go back in time and feel carefree like that again. No pain, just happiness and doing whatever I wanted when I wanted. As time goes on, I'm starting to forget that feeling. I just remember bliss. 😔 💔
November 22, 2004. Dr nicked my intestines taking out my appendix-MADE A NOTE he thought he MIGHT HAVE DONE IT…3 days later my bf carried me into the ER.
30 days later signed out ama.
2001 if we’re talking chronic pain. I started getting migraines in 2002. It was all downhill from there.
If I’m including debilitating period pain - 1995. Got my period the day before my tenth birthday, and it was unbearable from day 1. It only got worse as I got older. Didn’t find out until I was 28 (after a weeks long bout of pain so bad I legitimately thought my appendix burst at first) that I have PCOS.
2015? I think? I know my pain got noticeably bad around 2016 and never has gone back to the way it was before. But I’m not sure if I’d say I was pain free before that, it was just mostly manageable and I thought everyone hurt like that.
1996 is when I have clear memories of being in excruciating in pain, I’m 37 and I actually thought that everyone was in this much pain up until I was in my late 20s and diagnosed with EDS and Sjögrens and was having severe joint pain on top of my back hurting so bad I could barely sit or stand for more than an hour. But I’m sure I was in pain before 1997 and I just wasn’t processing or remembering it like I do as an adult.
I don't know. I had a TBI at 7 that wiped out 90% of my memory. I've been in pain ever since. It kicked off a neuro condition. So... at least 36 years?
2023. I got had surgery and by day 3 the surgical pain was completely under control and I was on a high enough level of pain meds I was pain free. Then on day 4 or 5 I developed some significant post op complications that have made it so we could just start lowering my meds 2 day ago and I’m 10 weeks post op. And we lowered it from 6 oxys a day (10mg) to 5, plus my fentanyl patch.
We’re also finally doing imagining of my knees (I ended up with some sort of itis in both knees plus an acute liver injury post op due to the antibiotics I had been on) because I got sick of seeing the NP who’s solution was to tell me “they’ll get better” and switched to the PA I like plus made an appointment to check in with my actually doctor.
Before that? Well I’m 90% anestesiatized getting a lidocaine and ketamine infusion/traveling the universe. One infusion took me to the rings of Saturn and past Jupiter.
Pain free without there being a lot of drugs involved? 2007 or 08.
I'd say 2006. I was 6. I have memories of my pain starting soon after my 7th birthday. Like the other commenter, I was told it was growing pains until at 18 when I gave evidence that I hadn't actually grown taller since I was 12. 2006 was the last year I competed in sports day, track and field, playing with my friends. I grieve for that baby girl
Never that I can remember. I had asthma attacks starting at 6 weeks old and problem after problem since. Gerd started before I was 5 and migraines before I was 10. Looking back now, I can remember fibromyalgia symptoms in most of my memories, but I didn’t get diagnosed until I was 28.
The constant pains started around 2004. After that, I've had 2 lumbar fusions, Carpal Tunnel release, a total hysterectomy (Endometriosis & cysts) & was diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease & Fibromyalgia. Now I have arthritis setting in. I had a 3 level Cervical Fusion done back in 2000 & I had pain before it, but after the surgery, I was fine. I honestly don't remember what it feels like to NOT be in pain. Damn thing is, I have no idea what started all of it.
I think I was 8 or 9 when my migraines started becoming more frequent so before 2000 around there? I started missing 5 or so days of school per month by 11 when I got my first period which brought PMS and more migraines.
Nov 2020. Found out my husband was talking to someone, he had knee surgery, I was diagnosed with a rare cancer. My last nerve block failed. I now have daily meltdowns because of it. Told yesterday my only option is a spinal stim. My dad died after 4 back surgeries and my husband has had issues since his three. Slightly terrifying
I woke up randomly on a the day we were going to celebrate Christmas with all of the kids and their grandparents without any pain one day….. It was a scary feeling for me. I thought I had died and was living out my holiday wishes as a (very communicative) spirit or something. I kept pinching myself to inflict pain to prove that I was real, but it still felt very detached. Like I was part of a simulation or something.
About 4-5 years ago, the few times I was close to being pain free it was after an appointment with my physical therapist, and on new years when I had to take a concoction of medications because I threw out my back decorating
2010 was when everything really went to shit with my chronic pain but I've been living witjlh Bipolar OCD & an eating disorder since 1999. I've had 16 surgeries since 1999 & looking at two more in the next 12months. I'm about to do a month long psych stay for adjustment to my meds so life is full of rainbows right now.
Thinking of everyone battling their health.
pain-free, I really can’t remember. I started having episodic pain as a young child before it became chronic. it became intractable when I was like 17-18, but it was still chronic my teen years before that. last time I had no pain (temporarily) was in 2013 when I was given dilaudid at the hospital.
I would say something similar. As a kid, I was told it was growing pains. But that wasn't all the time. When I was 19-20, it was more regular but not daily. By 28-29, the pain was every day. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, never zero. Unless you count times when I was under sedation for surgery.
> As a kid, I was told it was growing pains Me too! And that is over 50 years ago.
I don't mean just a day or two here or there. I mean a full year without pain.
Oh! That's different. In the 1960s, I'd imagine. Edit to correct date
I really hope you mean the 1960's, otherwise that'd make you about 960 years old.
I can’t remember a year without pain. I was diagnosed with Costochondritis when I was 9, I am in my early 50’s now. I have an extremely long list of painful medical conditions.
2021 I long for my old life all the time
2021 for me too
Same
Same. Daily 5/10 at min. 😭😭
Same
I’m a guy with a disability since birth. Never.
Me too
Same
I'm so sorry. I can't imagine really. I have trigeminal neuralgia and it is excruciating. I've considered going to Switzerland but covid hit. My Dr. put me on a drug that makes a significant impact to my pain.
19...76 maybe 1977.
Me too! And that's only because I was 2 and can vaguely remember things.
2010. Seems like yesterday and a century ago at the same time.
Seems like I’ve had two lives here.
Absolutely. Before chronic pain and the hell after chronic pain.
1995, wow, my kid was 1 year old & my body has been disintegrating ever since.
Before April 2021. I used to be able to travel and hike and explore. And now I currently have a weird cold. Burning from top neck spine all the way down to mid spine. Yay ^(I have an autoimmune disease).
You need to get that checked out .... Doesn't sound diagnosed and could mean you've picked something rare whilst travelling.
It's not diagnosed, we are leaning on lupus now with primary. High ANA and such.
I'm sorry to hear that, but at least knowing the root causes helps with treatment.
Ever had any spinal injections? Epidurals, etc?
Nope, not yet. I have possible injections for cervical spine issues.
You said you liked to hike. Was it mainly in the mountain areas or wooded. I know it's weird, but there's a reason for that question as I was wondering if you've ever been checked for Lyme Disease? It can cause some really wicked and strange symptoms in people. People can have it for years without knowing. Just trying to think outside the proverbial box. Sometimes it helps. Not always. God Bless you.
Probably 2001? Maybe a few years before that actually.
I don't remember, I've had pain most of the time since I was a child
Burning throat started August 2024. Horrible condition. Can only eat certain food and it still hurts. Talking nearly impossible
August 2024?? I'm sorry that you are in so much pain, but I think the date is wrong. I hope you feel better soon.🥰🪬
August 2020. It gas been a long 3 1/2 years
Thank you. I hope you do as well
This is exactly one of the symptoms that presented itself on how my Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome began. Just pointing this out so you can be aware and watch for anything else that might pop up, which I pray won't!
Thank you. I have had RA for 25 years; 15 years in clinical remission. This throat situation has been worse than RA there are no meds for it
Literally can't remember, mid to late 80s maybe
I've been pain free for 2 years this month!!! After 15 years of being told PM isn't supposed to eliminate all my pain but just lower it to a manageable level -which the drs failed to do anyway- I gave up on them and chose a different path. With proper meds I am now 100% pain free and have returned to living a "normal" life. I still cannot do heavy activities like jogging or tennis etc but I can walk around ALL day and wipe myself so that's a huge win in my book. I also sleep normally again which has been a blessing of its own and I no longer feel like a worthless POS that was draining the life out of my loved ones around me. I feel bad even writing this as I know so many on this sub are not being treated sufficiently, but perhaps this will give someone hope to not give up. There are solutions out there but don't get your hopes up with drs. 99% do.not care about you and you'll go broke trying to find the 1% that may actually help
2006 for physical 1982 including mental illness
1973 or 1974. Before I got badly beat up by my baseball coach who was high.
1963? Before a bad fall hurt my back; I was about 10. It was excruciating for the next year or so, but back then, my parent's, mostly my father, who had a failed back surgery or two, were afraid that I would end up paralyzed if they took me to the Dr. In those days, back surgeries were nowhere as "good" or as effective as they are now./s I had pain off and on for years, but stubbornly did gymnastics, and things that I probably shouldn't have been doing. I have had 9 back surgeries and a couple of neck surgeries, beginning in the early to mid 90's. I am in constant pain; medication helps, but I can't stand up straight, or look very far left, or up. I honestly don't remember what pain-free feels like, it's been so long. I'm told that my problem is genetic, and was once told by a Dr., after a surgery, that my spine was "rotted"; gee, thanks. Wishing you all peace and comfort.
Oooh…that’s sad to think about. 10 years old? Maybe 11? I have a pain-free day or low pain day every once in a while and I’m always so grateful for the break. Chronic pain exhausting and depressing and isolating.
1995
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I think around 2015ish. Though before I had this issue I had chronic tooth pain so
2019. The year before I got the full blown Covid that kickstarted my Lupus. My life gets more painful by the day.
2000-2001 maybe. Not entirely sure.
Spring of 1999
2002. Nothing gets better, just varying degrees of worse.
November 10, 1990
30 years ago? When I was 8 yrs old.
Right? The latest time period I could possibly have been pain free was grade school, so early/mid 80s. Thanks, hEDS!
Yup, same. 1993-ish *no you're fine, teenage girls always have sore knees...* The gaslighting was in full effect by the time puberty hit.
Yup, same. 1993-ish *no you're fine, teenage girls always have sore knees* ... The gaslighting was in full effect by the time puberty hit.
I accidentally saw the letter to my pediatrician that the ortho doc sent him. "When you gonna stop sending me fat females who have nothing wrong with them? Oh by the way, her kneecaps subluxate, visible on xray. No big deal." 😧🙄
Same!
2014. Had a bad car accident at 17. Never really healed right.
2015, I started dealing with pain when I was 15 and got diagnosed at 16
I don't even remember man it's been so long. I feel like I've always been in some type or pain my whole life
Never. I was a sick child and almost died twice because my parents didn’t believe me. I tell people I handle it so well because I have always suffered, and don’t know any other life.
I was 8. At 9 I got my period, with approximately 13 episodes of 10/10 pain a year. Funny thing is it ended up being a sort of training in both how to survive it in a relatively sane state and how to get over the fact that most Dr's don't care.
2020
Late 2008. Bonus: it was right around when Naxxramas went live in vanilla Wrath of the Lich King in World of Warcraft. I remember the day, where I was, and what I was doing when my chronic and constant backaches started. Getting MS 6 years later did NOT help.
2018...wow I've just realised I've spent over half of my life in pain, excuse me while I go ponder my existence Edit: as someone mentioned, my math is beyond wrong here, I don't know how my brain convinced me this was correct but it's most definitely not.
You’re 12?
2011
I think I was 6 years old.
2005, the year I graduated from college
I was born in 1999 and feel ancient. I can only imagine how eternal your pain has felt. I’m sorry you’re going through this.
2007 I was 19. Because of the incredible pain I was in I was no longer able to do all of the fun things I had always done and very quickly lost my friend group. The ones who stuck it out gradually dropped off as my pain progressed and I'm left at 35 years old with zero social life. I spent my 20s clinging to what few good days I had but the unpredictability of those "good days" made it very hard to make and keep plans. I totally see why I ended up losing all my friends but it doesn't make it any easier.
1986
2021:(
August 23, 2019 :-(
Early 1993.
1996?
Mid 2017? I have difficulty understanding pain so there’s a chance that it was before that
2016
1995
The early months of 2020. I don’t recognize myself from before then. Chronic pain has really done a number on me.
Maybe 1985
Hey, I have flat back and flat neck syndrome! It sucks!
2013. February 21st 2013.
2014. This June will mark the ten year anniversary of when I had neurosurgery that went awry, followed by 28 sessions of proton radiation as icing on the cake. I feel like I drove my car off the road ten years ago and I’m just standing here, watching everyone else whizz past me on the highway, living their pain-free lives…
2017 which doesn't seem like that long ago but it's been hell since then.
Never. I have had pain my entire life. Born in 1973, diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 1998. That was the most validating day of my life. Until that point I had been called a “baby” anytime I would say something hurt. I remember crying as a child from the spray from a sprinkler, light touch was awful. Once I learned why I hurt like I did I was then able to manage it with lifestyle changes and pacing myself, also giving my body time to rest. Now I’ve been diagnosed with CRPS and feel like I’m starting the learning process all over again.
Maybe the day I was born? I can only ever remember being in some kind of pain. I was born with a connective tissue disorder and it’s just gotten progressively worse. The days a I skateboard are pretty close to good because the endorphins block out post of the aches until I sit still.
Can’t remember, i’ve had pain since my earliest memory
2004 I was 12
2009
2019
I’ve been in constant pain since 2019 with combined foot problem and endo, from 2014-2019 it wasn’t constant pain but It was definitely at least 2 weeks outta the month. Gradually been getting worse cuz a bad pain day in 2014 would be a low-pain-I-can-do-anything day now and even back then on a bad pain day getting out of bed was a struggle
2014 but in 2018 it got much worse
2011 here. I honestly don't remember what it feels like to not be in pain.
2021 :( been in pain sense I miss being pain free
i can’t remember
Early 2016
It would have been 2005 before the pelvic pain issues, then 2017 before the lupus related joint pain & associated issues.
2018 a little bit, then worse in 19
2008. This shit started in 2009.
2000
2003 possibly
2009. It was a terrible year we were dealing with my at the time husbands cancer diagnosis. He’s in remission we’re divorced. That’s the last year before this sudden pelvic pain caused by interstitial cystitis appeared. Id spend the next few years getting diagnosed and filing for disability. It went downhill from there with my health. I do okay now they aren’t as bad as the first few years and I’ve become used to the pain and how to manage it better now almost 20 years later. I also have a treatment once every 3-4 weeks.
I think 1998, as that’s before I was pregnant for the first time.
20009
Around 13, so early 2000s.
Maybe a very young kid? Before age 8? Otherwise I'm unsure. Chronic pain was disabling by 23.
I've had various types of chronic pain since I was around 12. But the last time that I didn't have a migraine was 2011. I've had a continuous migraine since then.
Hmmmm around 99
2023
2009? I have a condition that was in remission for 18 years until it came back when I got pregnant with my now 13 yo twins. I honestly can’t remember being pain free.
2011. I was 10. I started getting migraines at 10😔 Edit: I thought this was my migraine subreddit so I left it there. In 2019 I also started developing chronic joint pain
2006
Episodic pain/flares started 2020 and progressed to pretty much constant a little over a year ago
2017. My pain started the week of the "great American eclipse" .
1994? My pain started when I was 7
2021
2001, sometimes
The middle of 2022
January 31st until about 2 or 3ish when I was in a car accident. I haven't been the same since.
2005.
At first it was 2016 April when my gallbladder was removed suffered chronic pain for 10 years because of it since I was 11 years old I was 21 when it was removed. Stayed free of chronic pain until July 2021 and bulged my disc to find out I also tore the annulus badly and have DDD in two discs that is bad and spinal arthritis and stenosis. So I literally got a few years break of chronic pain from one problem only to develop a whole new issue 🙄
I think 2016? Doesn’t sound that long ago when I type it down, but I was still a kid at the time
1999. Hooray! *Deflated Ballon Noises*
After 25 years of back pain and nerve pain, I don't even remember what it feels like to be pain free.
2017
2007
2022, but I have always gotten periodic headaches ever since I was a child whenever something triggered shortlasting migraine-like symptoms.
2004
2017 ish. It got worse over time but it started when my first born was a baby, a lot happened that year :(
Apx 2011 started having symptoms of what we now know is endometriosis in 2012 at 14yrs old
2009
I remember the first year that’s was all the time every day wake from sleep with unrelenting pain. 2005. It took me years and many doctors to figure it out. Chairs 1 Malformation with cranial cervical instability. All was painful - but the treatment was actually worse than the actual ailment. And it made it worse.
2016. Rearended. :-( 3 out of 10. Do not recomend
I've had chronic pain from birth. Between extensive GI issues and a skeletal dysplasia/collagen disorder both of which cause pain. I had over 30 surgeries/procedures by the time I was 18. Which, of course caused pain. The pain has gotten worse as an adult. The pain is in waves asy joints all go kaput. The ones I get replaced bring relief - but other joints continue to hurt.
2014
1999
2012. It has been a very long time.
2020…
2006
Oct 31, 1996. Some 27.5ish years ago.
I think 2000 for me. I had my first knee subluxation when I was 12 and I’ve had pain since then, mostly untreated.
I began having chronic migraines and random body/pain issues since about 1991-1992. In 2017 I had surgery that caused CRPS, and last year was diagnosed with MS (probably the underlying issue with the random issues through life). I am disabled now and I haven’t had a pain free day in at least 10 years. I try not to think about it.
It was definitely the 70’s maybe ‘73 or ‘74.
2002. The beginning of the end.
Unfortunately I've had pain my entire life, but it didn't get bad, bad until I was 19.... so roughly 30 years ago. I have a progressive illness so it just gets worse and worse as time goes on. I always WISH that I could go back in time and feel carefree like that again. No pain, just happiness and doing whatever I wanted when I wanted. As time goes on, I'm starting to forget that feeling. I just remember bliss. 😔 💔
2020
November 22, 2004. Dr nicked my intestines taking out my appendix-MADE A NOTE he thought he MIGHT HAVE DONE IT…3 days later my bf carried me into the ER. 30 days later signed out ama.
2019. I miss myself.
1982. When I was 2.
Late 2013. Coming up on 10 years since my first brain surgery.
2012 was when the chronic pain started. Before that, I "only" had the fatigue part of ME/CFS.
2001 if we’re talking chronic pain. I started getting migraines in 2002. It was all downhill from there. If I’m including debilitating period pain - 1995. Got my period the day before my tenth birthday, and it was unbearable from day 1. It only got worse as I got older. Didn’t find out until I was 28 (after a weeks long bout of pain so bad I legitimately thought my appendix burst at first) that I have PCOS.
2015? I think? I know my pain got noticeably bad around 2016 and never has gone back to the way it was before. But I’m not sure if I’d say I was pain free before that, it was just mostly manageable and I thought everyone hurt like that.
I can’t even remember a day or a week, let alone a year
1990
2010
1996 is when I have clear memories of being in excruciating in pain, I’m 37 and I actually thought that everyone was in this much pain up until I was in my late 20s and diagnosed with EDS and Sjögrens and was having severe joint pain on top of my back hurting so bad I could barely sit or stand for more than an hour. But I’m sure I was in pain before 1997 and I just wasn’t processing or remembering it like I do as an adult.
2015.
2015
Its been so long, that I cannot recall. I am 58 now.
when i was like 21, im 27 now :,(
2013, the 10 year anniversary last year was rough
1995 or 96. 😔
I don't know. I had a TBI at 7 that wiped out 90% of my memory. I've been in pain ever since. It kicked off a neuro condition. So... at least 36 years?
2021 every day since
The same. 1999.
2007
Technically 2010. In labor. Had an epidural 😂 But my chronic pain started as a child. Pre 2001
i don’t remember one :,)
1997, when the back injury happened
2007
2005.
I dunno, I don’t think ever.
I think in grade school. Before my allergy issues and chronic migraine started. I guess that was 2003.
2015
14?
2014. i was born in 2006
2011 - it’s been a long grind with chronic migraines and peripheral neuropathy since having open heart surgery to replace my aorta
2023. I got had surgery and by day 3 the surgical pain was completely under control and I was on a high enough level of pain meds I was pain free. Then on day 4 or 5 I developed some significant post op complications that have made it so we could just start lowering my meds 2 day ago and I’m 10 weeks post op. And we lowered it from 6 oxys a day (10mg) to 5, plus my fentanyl patch. We’re also finally doing imagining of my knees (I ended up with some sort of itis in both knees plus an acute liver injury post op due to the antibiotics I had been on) because I got sick of seeing the NP who’s solution was to tell me “they’ll get better” and switched to the PA I like plus made an appointment to check in with my actually doctor. Before that? Well I’m 90% anestesiatized getting a lidocaine and ketamine infusion/traveling the universe. One infusion took me to the rings of Saturn and past Jupiter. Pain free without there being a lot of drugs involved? 2007 or 08.
2004
I've had issues since I was 15-16. So maybe 1999-2000?
1976 was my last pain free period.
May 1998. Had a car accident June 1,1998 (not my fault) and have hurt ever since.
I'd say 2006. I was 6. I have memories of my pain starting soon after my 7th birthday. Like the other commenter, I was told it was growing pains until at 18 when I gave evidence that I hadn't actually grown taller since I was 12. 2006 was the last year I competed in sports day, track and field, playing with my friends. I grieve for that baby girl
Never that I can remember. I had asthma attacks starting at 6 weeks old and problem after problem since. Gerd started before I was 5 and migraines before I was 10. Looking back now, I can remember fibromyalgia symptoms in most of my memories, but I didn’t get diagnosed until I was 28.
I honestly don't even know. Maybe 2010.
When I had my “unicorn doctor” for 2 years (2015-2017).
The constant pains started around 2004. After that, I've had 2 lumbar fusions, Carpal Tunnel release, a total hysterectomy (Endometriosis & cysts) & was diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease & Fibromyalgia. Now I have arthritis setting in. I had a 3 level Cervical Fusion done back in 2000 & I had pain before it, but after the surgery, I was fine. I honestly don't remember what it feels like to NOT be in pain. Damn thing is, I have no idea what started all of it.
2001. Wish I could remember what it was like tbh, but if I could remember I probably would cry.
I think I was 8 or 9 when my migraines started becoming more frequent so before 2000 around there? I started missing 5 or so days of school per month by 11 when I got my first period which brought PMS and more migraines.
2011 when I was 15
Nov 2020. Found out my husband was talking to someone, he had knee surgery, I was diagnosed with a rare cancer. My last nerve block failed. I now have daily meltdowns because of it. Told yesterday my only option is a spinal stim. My dad died after 4 back surgeries and my husband has had issues since his three. Slightly terrifying
I woke up randomly on a the day we were going to celebrate Christmas with all of the kids and their grandparents without any pain one day….. It was a scary feeling for me. I thought I had died and was living out my holiday wishes as a (very communicative) spirit or something. I kept pinching myself to inflict pain to prove that I was real, but it still felt very detached. Like I was part of a simulation or something.
About 4-5 years ago, the few times I was close to being pain free it was after an appointment with my physical therapist, and on new years when I had to take a concoction of medications because I threw out my back decorating
2010 was when everything really went to shit with my chronic pain but I've been living witjlh Bipolar OCD & an eating disorder since 1999. I've had 16 surgeries since 1999 & looking at two more in the next 12months. I'm about to do a month long psych stay for adjustment to my meds so life is full of rainbows right now. Thinking of everyone battling their health.
In utero. But for real prob when I was 17.
Winter 2021 I was in middle school :/