Pain - xoJane http://www.xojane.com/list/pain en Thu, 02 May 2013 17:00:00 -0400 <![CDATA[It Happened to Me: Endometriosis Is The Most Painful Thing I've Ever Experienced, And Just 8 Months After Surgery It's Already Come Back]]>

Most days I laid in bed and suffered, convinced that either I had some kind of cancer eating me from the inside out that no doctor could find, or that they were right and there was nothing wrong with me and the pain was an invention of my twisted mind.

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]]> http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/it-happened-to-me-i-had-surgery-for-endometriosis-8-months-ago-and-now-its-back http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/it-happened-to-me-i-had-surgery-for-endometriosis-8-months-ago-and-now-its-back It Happened To Me Thu, 02 May 2013 17:00:00 -0400 Roxanna Bennett <![CDATA[My New Addiction is Completely Hating Myself All the Time]]>

Oh, by the way, this is THE WORST POST I'VE EVER WRITTEN.

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]]> http://www.xojane.com/healthy/i-think-i-found-a-new-addiction-self-hatred http://www.xojane.com/healthy/i-think-i-found-a-new-addiction-self-hatred Healthy Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:00:00 -0400 Emily <![CDATA[It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Husband Is Addicted To Opiates]]>

He is high on methadone. And Norco, and muscle relaxers with a little medical marijuana sprinkled in and some beer to wash it all down.

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]]> http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/it-happened-to-me-contest-entry-my-husband-is-addicted-to-opiates http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/it-happened-to-me-contest-entry-my-husband-is-addicted-to-opiates It Happened To Me Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:00:00 -0500 IHTM CONTESTANT <![CDATA[It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Get Cluster Headaches ]]>

Cluster headaches are very rare -- less than .1% of the population will ever experience one -- and many doctors agree that it is the worst type of pain a human will ever experience.

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]]> http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/cluster-headaches http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/cluster-headaches It Happened To Me Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:30:00 -0500 IHTM CONTESTANT <![CDATA[I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up: 5 Things I Obsessed About While Frozen In Pain On My Bathroom Floor ]]>

There I lay -- naked, alone in my apartment, as the Guy I Married was out doing something asinine like getting a PhD, and every attempt to stand up or even move was thwarted by shooting pain emanating from the right side of my back.

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]]> http://www.xojane.com/healthy/ive-fallen-and-i-cant-get-up-5-things-i-obsessed-about-while-frozen-in-pain-on-my-bathroom-floor http://www.xojane.com/healthy/ive-fallen-and-i-cant-get-up-5-things-i-obsessed-about-while-frozen-in-pain-on-my-bathroom-floor Healthy Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:00:00 -0500 Louise Hung <![CDATA[It Happened to Me: I Have Fibromyalgia]]>

Some days, it feels like demons made of fire are gnawing on my muscles, or like knives are stabbing me in every major muscle and joint.

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]]> http://www.xojane.com/healthy/it-happened-to-me-i-have-fibromyalgia http://www.xojane.com/healthy/it-happened-to-me-i-have-fibromyalgia Healthy Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:30:00 -0400 Anna Hamilton <![CDATA[It Happened to Me: I Have Vulvodynia, Chronic Painful Intercourse]]>

I am happily married. I am not asexual. But I haven’t had sex in almost two years.

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]]> http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/i-have-vulvodynia http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/i-have-vulvodynia It Happened To Me Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:00:13 -0500 Anonymous <![CDATA[A Little Bit of Pain Isn't Always a Bad Thing]]>

Whenever I get a tattoo or piercing (I have cartilage piercings in both ears), one of the first things people ask is, "Did that hurt?"

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]]> http://www.xojane.com/healthy/i-did-not-hurt-myself-see-if-i-still-feel http://www.xojane.com/healthy/i-did-not-hurt-myself-see-if-i-still-feel Healthy Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:00:11 -0500 Marianne