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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Punteha van Terheyden

I’m in chronic pain and have used heating pads for 15 years to cope at home in cold weather – the best I've ever used is on sale for Amazon Prime's last day of deals

Linda Ring Fruttato wool yellow blanket draped on ahigh back arm chair with enclosed bookshelves behind.

I have severe chronic pain from multiple conditions and despite the strong medications I take daily, there is one item in my house that does some serious heavy lifting for my pain control, especially during cold weather: my electric heating pad.

I have one in the living room, another in my study and a third plugged in next to my bed. I use it on my abdomen for my severe endometriosis, and to ease pain from the dislocations I live with daily because of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, a connective tissue disorder.

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