[glasscannon]

Hey algo_lover, OP here.

Just woke up and this post's traction has surpassed my wildest imagination.

Similar to what pedalpete has said, I'm looking to release this in parts to ensure:

1. I am not overwhelming people and losing their interest

2. Quality remains as high as possible (I invested only a few hours into this last week as an experiment). I want this blog to be the most easily accessible, engaging + factual source for chronic pain sufferers. That requires sufficient time to nail (and it seems like I've struck a chord so far).

3. Get signals from readers week by week and tailor to the audience which is forming.

This will help me helpfully reach the most pain sufferers.

RE feel like you're being sold something. This series will cover what is needed to recover from chronic pain and be offered for free. I am looking to build a product eventually (why wouldn't I want help as many people as posssible while building a career which does good - I don't believe they're exclusive), but the information in this blog will remain free.

RE not calling out Pain reprocessing theory/therapy - I'll go through the post today and see if it makes sense to add this into #1 (or if it's better for #4). It's not something I consciously omitted when writting this post last week.

Thanks for the comment!

[necovek]

Thanks for wanting to help, but:

1. You've lost my interest with no "meat", as the GP stated.

2. There is no "quality" in using a couple thousand words of text to say "I'll be writing about what helped with my chronic pain over time".

3. Here's the signal: I am not in for "weekly" sessions. I do have chronic pain, but what you want to be producing is utterly incompatible with what I need.

[Nathanba]

here is what helped reduce my chronic neck pain: red meat (beef) with no side dish, eating healthy in general (and I mean truly healthy, not "oh one small candy bar every two days is proably okay..." no, it actually isn't. It's poison.) and exercise, a foam roller, bench press. Also definitely don't eat leafy greens, if you do that then you should stop in my opinion. I can't emphasize enough how important it is to truly eat perfectly. You can't make a single mistake or it will start the sickness cycle again. Not immediately but even a single piece of chocolate will make it so that the body is susceptible to further damage the next day. Then if I eat another piece the second day I'm really risking it and the damage left a hole in my health. I've had multiple instances where I ate a piece of cake and a donut and I was getting sickly with a hot head within 2h. I think it's hard to emphasize enough how important health is, it should be your top hobby to be healthy and eat healthy. It should be your nr.1 pasttime to research health and draw joy from doing health related things.

[asacrowflies]

What kind of "health" is just red meat and no green leafy veggies???

[projektfu]

TBH I couldn't tell what the condition was or what general kind of treatment it was from the article without making big assumptions. Chronic pain is a symptom, viz. pain that doesn't go away after a short time. What was your disease? Or was it never given a name but the pain was treated?

Then I had to click a link "a landmark study" to get an idea of what the treatment is. Why not put the title of the treatment there?

Finally, that article is about back pain. But you had tendon pain. Obviously a psychological technique can be applied to multiple diseases, but you might say something about that.

[snozolli]

Your reply seems disingenuous, like marketing-speak. You're telling people "I have a solution to your chronic pain" and then they read the article only to find out "tune in next week for the next bread crumb".

Chronic pain drives people to suicide. You're toying with people's emotions.