The Burden of Pain and Practicing Patience with the Body: The Phenomenology of Lived Experience of Chronic Pains in MS Patients

Living with a chronic disease is a long-lasting process of experiencing symptoms and pain, recognizing and understanding this situation, and the re-conceptualizing and reconstructing the future of the person suffering from it. Chronic pains are among the complicated symptoms experienced by patients both perceptibly and imperceptibly in their everyday life. The theoretical idea of the article is that chronic pains resulting from chronic require endless patience with the body. They require a kind coexistence with an unpredictable body and the perceptible and imperceptible pains that erupt at times least expected. This article tries to show how and in what ways chronic pain is a kind of suffering. In this article neurophysiological theories that reduce pain to a bodily feeling caused by the reaction of the brain are pushed aside and the lived experience of chronic pains in MS patients is phenomenologically studied. Through this investigation into disrupted memories, divine metaphors and sensational personal writings including fear of disability and constant practice of patience with the body, bodily dissatisfaction, and complaints of the body.
sability, practicing tolerance toward the body, and discontentment with and complaining about the body.