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 It is so important to find appropriate treatment when you have chronic pain. I will speak from the perspective of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), but it may be applicable to other chronic pain syndromes. You need to find the right person to help you through it. Physical therapy (PT) is a standard treatment for EDS, in order to strengthen muscles to better support loose, hypermobile, painful joints. However, it is not as easy as it sounds, in my experience, I would do something to try to get stronger, which would result in additional pain/injury, which resulted in less movement, and less strength. I went through these cycles so many time, I was unable to walk without a walking boot on for months at a time. There seem to be only select PTs who really understand and know how to treat chronic pain. A standard PT, or even doctor who doesn’t understand EDS or other disease processes with chronic pain can do more harm than good, as I have experienced. As a physician, I know how poorly unde...

  Hi I'm Winnie, an academic radiologist for 13 years who retired early due to my health.  Before that, I was working a job that was hurting me. I felt I had to keep going despite the decline in my health. I was worried I didn’t have enough money and that I had to keep doing this to myself. In fact, I had a choice, I didn’t have to keep doing something that was hurting me. I realized I did have enough (using the 4% rule). I stopped working for my job and started working on my health. 1 year later, I can report that I am in a much better place, physically (able to walk and do much more functionally than before) and mentally (in contentedness). I created this site to share my experiences to potentially help others.  I run a financial book club for women physicians and have posted the synopses of some of the books reviewed here