Offering it up & pain meds

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This is something I’ve been wondering about for a while. I have a chronic back problem. I take OTC pain meds, & when the pain is really bad, I take a prescription pain med. I offer up my pain for others, but is my offering lessened by taking pain meds? Should I try to hold out longer before I take them?
 
Hi Bonnie! I wrestle with this issue also. When my chronic pain disables me to the point where I can’t function, I will take something to ease the discomfort. I don’t believe that God wants me to be laid up in bed, day after day, accomplishing nothing (even if I am offering it up). Chronic pain, while giving us an opportunity to sacrifice, can also drain a person spiritually. C.S. Lewis wrote extensively on the topic of suffering in “The Problem of Pain”. I found this book most helpful, along with Peter Kreeft, “Making Sense Out of Suffering”.
I find that if I have pain many days in a row, I become very depressed. It becomes much more difficult for me to do all the things I believe God want from me. Hope that helps!
 
I agree about the depression - before my doctor gave me the prescription I would spend a lot of time in bed crying - as much becuase of being depressed as because of the pain. Not much help to my family! I guess it evens out - when I can be active I take care of my family, which is what I’m supposed to do.

I just started reading Kreeft’s book last nite & somewhere around here we must have Lewis’s book. We have most of his.
 
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