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Okie guys here is my first attempt at a post.....

How do you deal with pain? And I DO NOT mean cutting yourself, or becoming violent, or anything thats anti-productive. What else you ease the pain, or distracts you enough that it doesn't bother you?

Thanks guys!

What kind of pain? Physical or psychical?
Ussually I have to go out, to the nature and be with my love or friends....and talk much about it and then do some activity which distract my mind from the pain.

Yea.......sorry about being a bit vague, I mean in a constant physical pain.

I take out on Super Smash Bros Meele and kick the living crap out of the computer. then i sleep

usually ill write some or go bout back and walk in the woods for awhile to ease it

i write poetry, songs, music, i draw my pain out...

get trashed but once trashed i sit down and write and doodle or run from the cops in need 4 speed high stakes for ps2 or i kill people in true crimes or ill go for a walk to clear my head

i write poems, draw or when i have money get pierced.

I have a very high pain tolerance, so it doesn't bother me at all.

oh yeah and i also go for walks and rearange my room doing that takes my mind of pain.

The problem is that it involves my knee, so walking and moving about alot isn't a possiblity. And I do have a high tolerence for pain, I have been dealing with this for almost 2 years right now, and still manage to be normal, somewhat.

I am just going stir crazy being home all the time, and need things to do to "get away from it all".

And thank you all for the great suggestions so far.....really.

It depends on the pain and the feelings it brings. I knwo thats an awful answer but it really does. Like misfit I soemtimes go out and drink with friends, and then write furiously. I might write a poem or talk to someone close, or put my energies into something else instead.

i write sing or play video games cause if i play a video game no amount of pain can reach me

Get some pain pills and sleep until the pain is gone. I have a bad knee from childhood and I couldn't do much walking on it for 3 years and it sucked. I took asprin and did the hot/cold compresses and wore an ace bandage. The ace bandage was like a crutch. Whenever I wore it, my knee seemed to hurt worse (and no, it was not on too tight.). As soon as the dr. gave me the okay to be on it again, I became very active and played in sports. The more you sit around on it the weaker it gets.

Been on every pain killer they can give me, cortizone shots through the knee, surgery (they want to do another soon, three major surgeries in one procedure), I must always be in a brace........sigh.

Just alot to deal with.

Pop a couple perks and you won't feel a thing....

what do you like to do, like a hobby, something you can emerse(this word is spelled wrong) yourself into and for get about the world, hence for get about the pain, if nothing else get drunk and sleep until the pain is a faint memory

Pain pills make you groggy. Alcohol makes you puke. Have you tried meditation or acupuncture?

Even finding some pressure points will help. I am sure that you can look those up online.

i go stand outside in the warm sun and feel the cool wind flow across my skin, then i just shake it off, shake my head then go inside and watch anime and cartoons. cartoons have always been thier for me i dont care how sad that sounds, during tough times i can turn to cartoons to put a smile on my face and get me to giggle. althought the problem is not gone, by this time my mind and soul is calm enough to deal with the problem.

my mother was in pain since she had cancer the doctor gave her oxycododone or something like that if im right its a narcotic has the doctor tried that yet?

Yea, been on Vicodin, Percocet, Ultracet, Codiene, and assorted tylenols and advils and the like....(the top few are in the same catergory as Oxycodone).

I talk with sweethearted, and open minded people like you phoenix! :)>

Well I hope that your pain ceases have you looked into wicca books or like natural healers that may help not sure though

You can always talk to me.

I lay in the dark of my room, play games, turn in the rideo, or just lay in the dark and think. I draw alot as well or build something. It alway stops me from killing my brother and it makes me ok with how the day went. Or I hurt myself some more.

i way i deal with it, when it really gets to much is a turn the lights off and light candles, i then lay on my bed and listen to some classical or soothing music

If it is pain that isn't that big... I laugh... as odd as it sounds i crack up laughing... it doesn't matter if it is emotional or physical pain i start laughing... If I am just completely stressed out and dealing with a major situation, I laugh... bottle all the stress up and then when everything is over and done, I get sick... really sick... usually something to do with my lungs... But thats how I deal with pain.

I write songs or write random things on paper then burn them.

i sit by myself. i don't talk. i cry ((sometimes)). and then i call one of my friends....im not a very "open" person!

It seems like I remember one of my nursing teachers talking about some exercises the help to relieve knee and ankle pain. I will try to remember to ask her about it, but in the mean time you should ask your doctor or phy.therapist to advise you on some. These are just mostly flexing and extending type exercises, nothing real physical. Just a suggestion...might help!

Thank you all for the great ideas.

NewBlood, I have tried that, I have to see my doctor every month or so......nothing has helped so far, and they are out of ideas except for the surgery.

Thanks though.

For the emotional....I get my friend to take me out and cause some mischief, but the physical.....

Well I have quite a few medical conditions, so I'm in pain alot, sometimes can't even walk. So I just try natural remedies alot, and just try to sleep, sleep and more sleep to help ease the pain.

I really don't know another way to deal.

I've had two full knee reconstructions on the same knee.....I learned then....your body seems to have switches....I've learned to flip mine off......both times I was let out of the hospital 3 days early because I could show full range of motion in the knee......emotions......I tend to be the same way ......somehow my body has learned how to dissappate stress and pain.

ill tell mummy to kiss it & make it better

i had a major sholder injury a year ago or so, it was bad enough that i could not move any part of the arm, and sometimes i would collapse entirly from the pain. all i could do was embrace the pain untill i think something inside me snapped and i just no longer cared about it. i have had to more or less do this on and off because the sholder didn't really heal all of the way. in other words i gave up on it being better and have just been integrating it into my life.
this is just an idea, i don't know what the adverse effcts of this are if there are any.
hell this may be an incredibly stupid idea, i just don't know.

ignore it and get on with life and hopefully it will get lost somewhere along the way...

and chocolate :P

Usually I sit in my room with headphones on listening to disturbed or cradle of filth...

If that doesn't then sticking straight pins into my arm always helps

Well im not a person who's trying to be emotionally constipated here. I think i react like most people do that has a soft heart and cry it out, and after a while of that, we think about things, and move on. I take that moment and think why did this happen and usually there is a lesson learned or sometimes that pain can make one stronger. It's easier to shove down the pain then it is to confront it. It's not good to ignore it and let it well up inside.

As for physical pain...i hardly have physical pain but if i do, i take something for it, or i try to mentally focus on something else.

I practice my Buddhist meditation...if that doesn't do the trick after enough time... Crown Royal don't hurt! Oh yeah...and like my buddy Lenore said too...if I have the money I'll go get a tat. That pain is so awesome and wonderful it makes all my other pain go away.

I've lived with back pain all my life, had two surgeries on it. I don't take anything for the pain besides Aleve at times, because I am afraid of becoming addicted to any kind of pain killers. All I can do is deal with it, some days it's so bad I'm in tears. When it gets really bad I just usually put my head phones on, turn the music up as loud as it will go and just concentrate on every beat, and note and word ... let my mind go to a different direction for a while as I'm laying down.

I know how you feel, I had knee surgery about 2 years ago. If you have access to a hot tub, that should help somewhat at least for a little while. Other than that just relax and take it easy.

most of my pain goes away but theres pain that will never go away. i also try to meditate(sp) when i get a chance that helps alot too. eating also helps but thats how i got really chubby once cuz i ate but pain away since 3rd grade to 9th grade. but yeah so many people turn to food to help with pain its not uncommon today. i still do sometimes.

I have back pain from hitting something head on in my car. I have learn not to turn my body really far and when my back does really start to hurt. I end up laying on the floor. I dont take pain pills unless I am unable to stand up and walk like a person.

I draw, write poems, take a long walk, or take a really hot bath! Hmmm... I should try the go get pierced one... *looks in pocket* I do have extra cash...

Personally I am not quite sure how I deal with the pain. So much has been experienced yet through it all I survive. Be it physical pain of being run over or the emotional of having my daughter ripped from arms and never being allowed to see.
Just survival no more no less.
Some day the pain may come back but while I still feel it every second of every day it just hangs around.

I find that sleep helps alot, I mean for most physical pain it will eventually go away. If I can't sleep I'll take 4 or 5 benedryls. If I have pain and I can't sleep I try to think about something else. That brings us to an old saying. "It hurts when I do this"....."Then don't do it!" also, don't dwell on the pain, accept it and try to move on the best you can without making it worse.

i have to talk about it, it seems ten times worse till you talk to someone then it doesn't seems as bad

i think about something else

i growl then fall to my knees and shake a bit, and the rage consumes me. so i try not to leave my room and i just growl and moan and groan...

well i just had a great deal of pain and hurt thrown my way. what i have been doing to ease the pain is keeping busy. shopping hanging with friends. eating lotsa chocolate cause its a bandage for everything. lets see i also just blasted my music and cried at first but then i realized i needed to keep busy. helps not concentrate on the pain and hurt

wait wait
I deal with pain by coming online and sharing it with everyone
LOL
yeah thats why I am always online un huh yeah

Well as regards pain I try to diffuse it all around my body.. I imagine the point which is painful to emit its pain around and the rest of my body emits back to it good healthy energy.. thus a balance is created and usually the pain is healed in a matter of weeks if it is very painful.. but still during those weeks I learn to feel whether the pain is increasing or not and to balance out the pain everyday so as to feel it less and help it cure