Personal Stories
18 Creative and Crafty Activities
December 18 , 2024
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It’s always good to look back at previous editions of Pain Matters and it’s from issue 38 that I take great delight in sharing some words for wisdom from Dennis Turk and Frits Winter, “Pain needs competition”— social contact, creativity and fun all help us to put ...
Christmas anecdotes
December 18 , 2024
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Andy is a writer. Negotiating life with pain and fatigue has meant discovering new ways to celebrate Christmas. In this series of anecdotes, Andy shares how difficult yet joyous that journey can be.
1. “The Christmas Light Dilemma”
Every year, the twinkle of Christmas lights feels like a promise ...
Introducing Andy
December 11 , 2024
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Over the next few weeks you’ll hear from Andy Jeffrey, one of our volunteers. Andy’s almost 40 and lives in Edinburgh. Through his writing, he hopes to help others by sharing how he has rebuilt his life following a diagnosis of a chronic pain condition. By way ...
“You’re never alone”
December 10 , 2024
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Beth Evans in conversation with Jason Wilsher-Mills
Jason Wilsher-Mills is an artist from Wakefield. His exhibition ‘Jason and the adventure of 254’ is being shown at the Wellcome Collection until 12 January 2025. At the age of eleven, Jason was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition that paralysed him ...
7 observations from a novice marathon runner
October 03 , 2023
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On October 15 Cameron Mckechnie completed the Amsterdam Marathon in aid of Pain Concern - we caught up with him to find out about his endeavour before the run.
1. What inspired you to participate in this fundraising marathon (and have you done anything like this before?)?
I ...
From persistent pain to passion project
August 22 , 2023
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Read about Lindsay McLean's experience of a pain management programme from the perspective of a patient, and how it affected her life.
Triathlon challenge
May 25 , 2023
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Dr Mick Serpell, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine for Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS
Let me explain, I work with patients who have chronic pain. My journey as a novice in the triathlon world required me to make changes in my beliefs and behaviours.
Changes very similar ...
Pain – A poem by Dinah Milsom
April 25 , 2018
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Dinah Milsom, poet and supporter of Pain Concern, has written a poem expressing her experiences with pain.
She asked us to post this on our website so other people in pain may read it.
Pain
The light glows
The heart knows
This pain endures
And so I make ...
Ruth Tickner
January 10 , 2014
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Ruth Tickner describes how pain ‘crept up on her’ over the course of several years and the blind alleys and frustrations she had to face before beginning to rebuild confidence in her body and faith in her future
Pain crept up on me. I have a significant mobility ...
The Ellis Family
May 14 , 2013
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Tom Ellis developed chronic pain after falling on ice. His father Richard describes how the family pulled together to get through their ‘year from hell’
At the start of 2012 the nation was full of optimism, anticipation and great expectation for the forthcoming year: a year that would ...
Kiera Jones
February 04 , 2013
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At the age of 24, Kiera Jones’ career as a scientist was abruptly disrupted by the onset of chronic wrist pain. She tells us about the frustrations of the condition and how she is gradually finding ways to work around it to get her career back on ...
