Being understood as a way of coping illustrates my point. That is the way in which you have made it work. You have found commerades in arms and that is how you spin it to to work and not kill you.

Where you are getting the wonder woman notion I have no idea. I spent 9 yrs being flown across country working with an intensive therapist and pain team on learning to live with this due to the severity of my condition. I do not need to pit my pain experience against anyone elses because it doesn't matter "who hurts the worst" You have done to me exactly what you claim to hate whe doctors do to you. You have be littled my experience as not as "bad" as the rest of you. I am only trying to expose another side of the coin that helped me find a little emotional peace. I have to imagine some else could benefit.