Pain - How Do You Manage Yours?

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Our 'brother' site FibroMen is conducting a survey on pain treatment and management and they'd love to hear your views:

​What works for you, what doesn't work and what made you worse?

I've had years and years of different medications and treatments, a lot of them absolutely useless, a lot of them with side effects far worse than the pain they're meant to treat. Have you had a similar journey?

​To go to the survey follow this link FibroMen Pain Survey - and then come back and comment here.
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52 yr old father of one. Fighting to raise awareness of fibromyalgia in men. Chronic pain warrior and crohn's disease codger. I don't win every battle - but I will win the war!

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