Chronic Pain and Weight Loss

Eat clean, work hard every day, log it and get a good network of friends to support you. Feel free to add me if you like

I also have sciatic pain :sad: feel free to add me

I suffer from chronic pain now for 7 years. I have Atypical neuralgia plus bursitis in my hip which sometimes leaves me walking with a cane .I take many medications which cause me to gain ,but since joining I have found exercising when possible, logging and the support of friends makes it possible to stay focussed and positive. If nothing else I am eating healthy and becoming a better me . Feel free to add!

I struggle with plantar fasciitis in my left foot (have had it for a YEAR straight!) and Achilles tendonitis now in my right ankle (from compensating for so long probably) for about 8 weeks.
I trudge thru it.
I still workout.
I am hoping that once a certain amount of weight comes off that both injuries will get better.
Good luck to you and everyone else

To everyone: feel free to add me for support.
Let's kick our *kitten* together :happy:

I had joint pain for years, and then found that black cherry or tart cherry juice helped ALOT with the pain. Bad news is that it also has a good amount of calories. It also helps you sleep. A good nights sleep and less pain during the day might make it worth having to figure in the calories. Good luck to you.

I'm in the same situation, trying to lose weight with chronic pain/illness. It definitely adds a whole new layer of difficult to the process.

Hi! I have Fibromyalgia and a couple of compressed discs in my back and neck. The best thing in the world for me has been swimming. No impact, and I can do a lot of things in the water I could never do in "normal gravity". I started out just moving back and forth across the pool, and now I do backstroke, crawl and breast stroke - 24 laps in about 30 minutes, and then two additional "whatever" laps in 5 minutes as a break or a cooldown. As a result of the swimming, I can now do beginning yoga, and I'm looking into DDP yoga which is supposed to be no impact.

I joined LA Fitness to have access to a pool regardless of the weather or what part of town I'm in. I highly HIGHLY recommend trying swimming. Best of luck to you!

Like all the others who replied to your post, I understand where you're coming from. Chronic pain is such a bugaboo (yes, I just used that word) because it affects SO. VERY. MANY. ASPECTS. OF. OUR. LIVES. It's hard for others to understand and truly empathize with, although they can be supportive. I have a degenerative joint disorder and am currently recovering from a very major knee/tibia reconstruction. This means I'm on crutches, which makes exercise that much harder.

Building strength can be your biggest ally. The stronger you can get your muscles (safely, slowly, over time, with physical therapy and moderate exercise) the better you'll feel. It will help with the weight gain, too. It's hard because chronic pain so severely limits our functionality and mobility.

If you feel like you need to lose some weight first before you have less pain to exercise, then dieting smartly might be the way to go. I also do seated chair cardio and arm/upper body workouts almost every day. Look for Coach Nicole's seated exercise videos on SparkPeople!

It can be done, I have chronic pain in my rt knee and chronic headaches r/t sinusitis..it is just more difficult...I always feel better after I work out though!! Always do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsKHQ81Cbdk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1Y4OV3QlA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO3racIlTcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6netzXNlvAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DavfjAoWdvE

Thank you for these...I'm going to check them out next time I do yoga!

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Hello ladies & Gents,

I am 27 and have lived with chronic pain for 3 years, i have had bursitis bad for 4 months and sciatic pain for almost 1 year on top of the other stuff. I have gained 20 lbs in the past 2 years, i have been really struggling and trying to convince myself that the scales are lying to me. I have since lost 7 pounds in 2 months, I have struggled through each pound and am just trying to see if there are any ideas or advice?

I've been told swimming is really good for the sciatic pain/protruding discs. Low impact on the back and legs but you can still do a lot of cardio in the water!

Dx'd with fibro and MS and have some pretty horrid back injuries (I fell and landed on my feet and then my *kitten*, which resulted in heel to hip stress fractures and L1-L5 compression), along with hereditary arthritis and a left knee that hates me due to a bullet grazing.

I have one of those mini stepper/elliptical things with the resistance bands and hell, even if I can manage 5 minutes on that before or after each meal, that's 15 minutes a day of doing SOMETHING. She's occasionally perky to the point of nausea-inducing, but Leslie Sansone's Walk Away The Pounds videos are awesome when it's rainy/crappy (I'm in New England myself).

I have had Undiagnosed gluteal pain for two years. My best tip is to eat well you never know when you can't exercise

I exercise nearly every day because it helps me with pain. I've had to change to lower impact exercise most of the time, however i don't see myself ever voluntarily stopping, even if the only thing I can do at some point is to swim.

Edit: swimming is great. Even if I'm having too much neck and shoulder pain to use my arms, I can do laps with a kick board.