Gaga: "having a frustrating day"

[Omar Vela 2,744]

42 minutes ago, 13VictorC said:

Maybe she already does, but she should seek a hollistic way to reduce her pain.

hell no, she needs real medicine not just placebo 

[Katie14 4,828]

11 minutes ago, Gagas love said:

as a professional massage therapist, i can assure you that a welll given massage handles all that.

Apparently thats not working for Gaga. 

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Just now, Katie14 said:

Apparently thats not working for Gaga. 

aw no i meant for headaches and depression and migraines. not for lupus... i mean it can make her feel better but not completely

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10 minutes ago, Omar Vela said:

hell no, she needs real medicine not just placebo 

the mind is a very very powerful thing. dont underestimate the power of the brain and soul. without the mind, we wouldnt have medicine to begin with.

[Katie14 4,828]

16 minutes ago, Zilla said:

Honestly, what struck out to me is how much of a fighter she really is. The first time we went backstage was a week before she cancelled the rest of the BTWB and needed to get the surgery, and she didn't make us worry about her being in pain while talking to her. Like, even though she was really hurting, she said her hip was hurting, she didn't have it show because I guess she didn't want to let her guard down and let us down by being concerned.

That being said, I'm disheartened to hear this but I trust that she has the best doctors and can mediate her pain the best she can, but I'm afraid she will push too far again. 

If she didn't try to hide being in pain for so long, her injury wouldn't have gotten as bad as it was and she wouldn't still be suffering from hip pain. So, that makes me sad to think about She would still have the other chronic pain that she had before but it wouldn't be as bad. 

[Katie14 4,828]

5 minutes ago, Gagas love said:

aw no i meant for headaches and depression and migraines. not for lupus... i mean it can make her feel better but not completely

We shouldn't assume she has lupus. Check my post on the previous page. Testing borderline positive means you don't have the disease. I feel like if she did have it, she would have said she did during her last Howard Stern interview when they talked pretty extensively about the disease. Unless she just doesn't want people to think she is a victim. 

[13VictorC 1,102]

15 minutes ago, Omar Vela said:

hell no, she needs real medicine not just placebo 

Holistic health is not placebo. It is an approach to health as a whole, involving diet, exercise, sleep quality, stress management, toxicity levels, intestinal flora, water intake, and emotional/psychological resilience.

5 minutes ago, Gagas love said:

the mind is a very very powerful thing. dont underestimate the power of the brain and soul. without the mind, we wouldnt have medicine to begin with.

Absolutely. The importance of our beliefs is underestimated.

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3 hours ago, Katie14 said:

What does chronic pain mean exactly? Where is the pain?

Chronic pain is different for everyone. For example, I have fibromaylgia (possible lupus, i'll find out in January after years and years of pushing!) and I have an increased sensitivity to pain itself (even bumping into something hurts like hell for wayyy longer than normal) and mostly my shoulder/neck/back is affected. More recently I've been dealing with wrist, elbow, and knee pain (+swollen joints). One day you can feel pretty decent, but on others you just want to sleep and not do a damn thing. Even getting out of bed takes enough energy out of you and you can't do anything else. 

Gaga has only tested borderline positive for lupus (so, no, she doesn't have it!) but that could have changed since the interview in 2011. We're not her doctors and I can't speak for Gaga and her chronic pain. Hers could be totally different. I'd highly recommend checking out this spoon theory article to get a better understanding.

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38 minutes ago, 13VictorC said:

Holistic health is not placebo. It is an approach to health as a whole, involving diet, exercise, sleep quality, stress management, toxicity levels, intestinal flora, water intake, and emotional/psychological resilience.

Absolutely. The importance of our beliefs is underestimated.

thanks for that holistic definition. well done

and yeah, people forget that we are energy capsules made up of energy capsules inside energy capsules inside energy capsules and so on and so forth. and thoughts and words are energy capsules radiating through and out of us. and we must pay attention to the energy we decide to create and toss or hold on to.

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7 hours ago, A Gaga Lad said:

What happened to her that bruise is huge

 

7 hours ago, Justinn said:

Is that a bruise on her shoulder? omg? 

it's her cellphone's shadow 

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8 minutes ago, Lana Winters said:

Chronic pain is different for everyone. For example, I have fibromaylgia (possible lupus, i'll find out in January after years and years of pushing!) and I have an increased sensitivity to pain itself (even bumping into something hurts like hell for wayyy longer than normal) and mostly my shoulder/neck/back is affected. More recently I've been dealing with wrist, elbow, and knee pain (+swollen joints). One day you can feel pretty decent, but on others you just want to sleep and not do a damn thing. Even getting out of bed takes enough energy out of you and you can't do anything else. 

Gaga has only tested borderline positive for lupus (so, no, she doesn't have it!) but that could have changed since the interview in 2011. We're not her doctors and I can't speak for Gaga and her chronic pain. Hers could be totally different. I'd highly recommend checking out this spoon theory article to get a better understanding.

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i dont wanna seem like a doctor but no lie, massage therapy would help that fibromyalgia.... all the symptoms you gave me are symptoms of hypertoned contracted muscles. a fancy way of saying youre tight. lol. joint pain and swelling, (when you say wrist, elbow, knee youre speaking of the connection of the bones, which is a joint) are signs of contracted muscles which pulls the tendons and ligaments and creates inflammation and pain. a deep tissue and stretching session helps them relax. having difficulty getting ut of bed is also tension. since you whole body is super tight, your mobility is limited and therefore it takes alot more energy to move. Im sure you also feel tingling in your body when you lie down before bed and when you wake up. and im sure you have a restless need to move you rlegs when youre sitting or lying down. yoga, massage, and meditation would remove your fibromyalgia. you probably think too hard an dlong without breaks which is why meditation would help. it would give you rmind time to relax. when we think alot and hard, we clench all our muscles and start breathing fast and irregular. this makes your whole body tighten up as if it was ready to fight or run away. hence the stress mode of the nervous system being called "fight or flight"

also, you may be drinking too little water. loook it up, dehydration makes you tight as **** and makes you feel uneasy.

this was way long but i hope it helps.

p.s. I am a professional massage therapist. been massaging for 6 years. have seen all kinds of aches and pains and feelings. also, been where you were...

[Lana Winters 757]

1 minute ago, Gagas love said:

i dont wanna seem like a doctor but no lie, massage therapy would help that fibromyalgia.... all the symptoms you gave me are symptoms of hypertoned contracted muscles. a fancy way of saying youre tight. lol. joint pain and swelling, (when you say wrist, elbow, knee youre speaking of the connection of the bones, which is a joint) are signs of contracted muscles which pulls the tendons and ligaments and creates inflammation and pain. a deep tissue and stretching session helps them relax. having difficulty getting ut of bed is also tension. since you whole body is super tight, your mobility is limited and therefore it takes alot more energy to move. Im sure you also feel tingling in your body when you lie down before bed and when you wake up. and im sure you have a restless need to move you rlegs when youre sitting or lying down. yoga, massage, and meditation would remove your fibromyalgia. you probably think too hard an dlong without breaks which is why meditation would help. it would give you rmind time to relax. when we think alot and hard, we clench all our muscles and start breathing fast and irregular. this makes your whole body tighten up as if it was ready to fight or run away. hence the stress mode of the nervous system being called "fight or flight"

 

this was way long but i hope it helps.

There is NO WAY to "remove fibromaylgia". Please do not speak of such a thing when you are, in fact, not a doctor. This has been going on for 10+ years now with countless different treatments including massage therapy, pain medicine, meditation, yoga, physical therapy, etc. Anyone who says otherwise is misinformed and needs to do research. Fibromaylgia is not just being tense, there have been studies done showing that fibro patients have an increased thickening in the brain and their perception to pain is different than those who do not suffer from the condition.

It is NOT just feeling tense and simple as that. There is so, so so so so so, much more that goes into having this condition rather than just chronic pain and muscle aches. I cannot stress that enough. Massage therapy is not going to magically cure my swollen knee joint that I can't even bear weight on for the past month. It's not going to stop my joints from popping/cracking/dislocating (thanks, hypermobility syndrome!). Telling someone they can "fix" it magically with such a cure can be seen as undermining their story and their struggle. Just wanted to let you know that.

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19 minutes ago, Lana Winters said:

Chronic pain is different for everyone. For example, I have fibromaylgia (possible lupus, i'll find out in January after years and years of pushing!) and I have an increased sensitivity to pain itself (even bumping into something hurts like hell for wayyy longer than normal) and mostly my shoulder/neck/back is affected. More recently I've been dealing with wrist, elbow, and knee pain (+swollen joints). One day you can feel pretty decent, but on others you just want to sleep and not do a damn thing. Even getting out of bed takes enough energy out of you and you can't do anything else. 

Gaga has only tested borderline positive for lupus (so, no, she doesn't have it!) but that could have changed since the interview in 2011. We're not her doctors and I can't speak for Gaga and her chronic pain. Hers could be totally different. I'd highly recommend checking out this spoon theory article to get a better understanding.

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I just read the spoon theory from your link. Everybody should seriously read this. Its a really great insight into what its like to have a chronic illness. Its so easy to take our health for granted and this type of explanation really forced me to appreciate the fact that I can go through my day without feeling pain or exhaustion. Many people do not have this luxury. It really is a luxury and a blessing to be healthy because it isn't guaranteed. Reading this puts things in perspective and made me realize how silly I am when I worry about superficial things. Its really so unfair that so many people have to struggle. Hopefully there will eventually be a cure for Fibromyalgia, Lupus, MS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and other debilitating autoimmune and pain disorders. I feel like these types of disorders are the most unfair because they are chronic and people don't understand how bad it is because the suffers usually look normal. 

It also makes me so angry that women are way more likely to get an autoimmune disorder than men are. I tested positive for ANA and rheumatoid factor. I don't have any symptoms but I worry that I will develop something in the future. If I wasn't a woman, I wouldn't really have to think about this possibility at all. 

Thank you so much for sharing and I hope you feel better 

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3 hours ago, adammonroe said:

Hopefully not, but I'm sure this is not normal. Gaga's usually covered on bruises, and they dont appear so easily just because of rehearsing, I mean, just look at Beyoncé, she dances her ass off but still you can barely see any bruises. I'm sure this, sadly, is Lupus related. 

Might have to do with Gaga taking anti-inflammatory meds. Even over the counter meds in this category cause easy bruising. That's my theory.  

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And this is what u get when you make a "GGD type of comment" on Gaga's Insta.... I'm stupid