My problems started in the early 1980s with the introduction of computers in most public service departments.In 1986,
It was during a long jump attempt at my school's athletics try-outs when I was nine that I first hurt myself.As usual, I ran and jumped but as I hit the sand I felt pain in what I thought was my ankle.
My first taste of pain and injury was when I was only three years old.We had a car accident and I had my lower lumbar joints damaged as well as whiplash injuries to my neck. No one knew this at the time, though, and by the time I was nine I was having X-rays on my back to find out why I was in so much pain.
My injury happened over two days – August 30-31, 2001 – when I was asked to reorganise the office's new filing system.
I was an advisory teacher when I suffered a spinal injury in 2007 that landed me in a Brisbane hospital emergency department.Thanks to a neurosurgeon, I regained the use of my left leg and the crushing pain eased. 
It happened on 28 August 2008 at 8.28am. Everything after that is a bit of a blur, but the moment the accident happened will be stuck in my memory forever.
I was nine years old when I damaged the ligaments in my left leg in a hurdling accident.After a year of treatment my leg hadn't healed – in fact the pain had worsened and I was diagnosed with chronic regional pain syndrome. 
September 23, 2006 was a beautiful, still, sunny autumn day.I was in the UK to visit my elderly mother and other family members and had taken the train to London to visit a friend.
6 when I was 17. Unrelated to any incident, I began to experience extreme back pain. I later discovered it was a degenerative disease with no cure, but at the time I thought it could just be 'fixed'.
As a chronic migraine sufferer I've lived with pain since I was a small child. With the help of sub-occipital electrodes and an implanted pulse generator (IPG implant) I can now manage my daily pain and rely less on heavy medications.
I had two major cycling accidents in the 1980s which caused a spinal fracture and severe whiplash.I quickly got over the accidents and was fine until the early 1990s when I started to have migraines. This gradually progressed to daily migraines by 1996.
Before my accident, about six years ago, I worked at a prestige car dealership in Brisbane. This work was physically demanding as well as being quite social. We all had to get on well as it could be quite a pressured environment and humour often kept us going.
I first incurred a serious back injury at work in 1985. It was not able to be evidence-based for five years (at the time of surgery).
I injured my neck in 1993 while attending a Scout Jamboree in Canada as a carer for a child with cerebral palsy.My pain symptoms didn't really show up until 1997 when I started getting lots of neck and arm pain. 
That Friday in June 1990 began like any other Friday – two adults, three teenagers, family pets, all heading out. I was totally unaware that this was the day "Super Mum" would die and life as I knew it would be over.
In 1962 at the age of 21, Renée was involved in a serious car accident that kept her in an English hospital - in a 40-bed geriatric ward - for nearly two years.
"Fortunately", the pain from my neck injury was so severe that it was taken seriously from the start.
Harry Perkins, son of Olympic champion swimmer and Painaustralia Director Kieren Perkins OAM, was diagnosed with chronic migraine at the tender age of eleven.
Breast cancer is a diagnosis heard all too often these days at 13,000 diagnoses a year in Australia.
I woke up one morning in 1988 with a sore back.As the pain continued to increase, I consulted my general practitioner who referred me to an orthopedic surgeon. After some tests, I was told that there were no problems and that the pain should go away. It didn't.
I'd survived the traumas of a major motor car accident, the ignominity of a prostatectomy, and the despair and exasperation of three separate cancers and their harsh therapies, but nothing had prepared me for the greatest challenge of my life, dealing with chronic pain
Juliet: Inherited pain condition
My pain symptoms started when my menstrual cycle began, at the age of 12. I had blinding pain in my pelvic region, sweating and nausea associated with menstruation. As I got older I also experienced intense back pain, and I would often blackout.
I was put on the pill from the beginning, my doctor assuming hormones were the cause of my symptoms. It did help, but also made me sick and I gained weight.
The cycle of pain and blackouts continued throughout my teens and into adulthood, but in 2006, at the age of 30, the pill stopped working for me.
When I first experienced the symptoms not connected with my menstrual cycle, I had no idea what they were. I also began experiencing shoulder and arm pain, and severe pain along the left side of my body, including aching teeth, a numb tongue and piercing pain in my left eye.
I continued to work but felt crippled by the pain, and after work I couldn't even do the dishes, let alone any other activity, and found it difficult to sleep.
Later I saw a gynaecologist who was convinced the pelvic pain was caused by endometriosis, so I had surgery, but very little scar tissue was found. I had some relief for six months, but then the symptoms returned.
Then in 2009 – more than 20 years after the pain began – a different gynaecologist finally made an accurate diagnosis. I had pudendal neuralgia.
In pudendal neuralgia the pudendal nerve located in the pelvic region becomes entrapped or compressed, causing chronic nerve pain. In my case, I discovered it was an inherited condition triggered by a fall at the age of 11, which compressed the pudendal nerve and began the cycle of painful episodes.
It was a relief to discover that the different forms of pain I had been experiencing were all related to this one condition, which amplified every twinge of pain I felt in my body.
Initially I considered a nerve block because my symptoms were severe, but I decided to try alternative therapies first. I began seeing an osteopath weekly, I stopped pilates because the core strengthening exercises can compress the pudendal nerve, and I began acupuncture once a month to help relax my muscles.
It's been two years since beginning treatment, and I'm fortunate to now lead a normal life. I see my osteopath and acupuncturist monthly, and I've just begun physiotherapy, swimming and walking.
Today I hardly ever have bad pain, unless I'm under stress. I feel like a different person. Getting the proper diagnosis and treatment has transformed my life.