http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2012/03/comfortably-numb/ Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2012/03/comfortably-numb/#comment-6593 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:12:40 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=17997#comment-6593 I gave birth to two children and both naturally with no pain meds at all. I will say that with ra when I was rushed to the er…I requested for a morphine drip and got it. RA pain can be off the charts. I keep hoping and hoping that you get some relief RA guy. It breaks my heart to know you are having so much pain these past months in particular.

]]> http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2012/03/comfortably-numb/#comment-6592 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:37:35 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=17997#comment-6592 You have entered the space I call “transcendental pain.” It’s like you’re above it or outside it somehow, detached from it. And yet it’s worse than anything.

]]> http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2012/03/comfortably-numb/#comment-6591 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:03:45 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=17997#comment-6591 Well now you’ve just answered my question that I was saving for my next neurologist appointment! That was exactly what I was wondering: if it was possible that my numbness is actually an overwhelmed-by-pain response rather than anything else, as we’ve tested so much and found so little. Thanks for posting about this, RA Guy!

]]> http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2012/03/comfortably-numb/#comment-6590 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:25:07 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=17997#comment-6590 Do you do anything to relieve numbness? I don’t.

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