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I’m David Bainbridge. After 54 years of unrelenting pain, medical neglect, and opiate dependency, I did the unthinkable— I rebuilt. Born Into Pain is a raw, no-BS podcast for those who live with chronic illness, medical trauma, and invisible battles. This isn’t about healing. It’s about fighting back. Through real stories, survival strategies, and radical mindset shifts, we expose the systems that failed us—and amplify the voices that won't be silenced. New episodes every week. Pain doesn’t ...
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I’m David Bainbridge, The Tenacious Cyclist Living proof that pain, disability, and adversity don’t define limits. Once wheelchair-bound, now tackling ultra-endurance rides, I push beyond the impossible. This podcast is about grit, resilience, and defying expectations. From chronic pain to 100+ mile rides, I’ll share raw truths, mental strategies, and the brutal highs and lows of endurance cycling. No excuses. No shortcuts. Just relentless determination. Ready to ride above pain? Let’s go. 🎧 ...
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Operation Tenacity: One Man’s 21-Day Rebellion from Hospital Bed to RideLondon
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Three weeks before RideLondon, David Bainbridge lay in a hospital bed—malnourished, muscle-wasted, unable to walk. He had no strength. No training. No chance. But on race day, he didn’t just show up—he went to war. In this episode, we tell the story of a man with a body in collapse who rode 63 miles at elite intensity. No pacing. No coasting. No me…
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Ever felt your bones grinding together? Now imagine it never stops. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is real. It’s brutal. And it’s invisible. More painful than childbirth, cancer, even amputation—and most people have never heard of it. Through visceral metaphors and raw testimony, we expose the truth behind this silent tormentor: a dysfunctio…
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Before They Believed Me: Surviving Childhood Pain, Misdiagnosis, and Medical Gaslighting
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“I’ve been in constant severe pain for every second of every day for so long that I can’t remember what it feels like to not be in pain.” - David Bainbridge In Episode 1 of Born into Pain, David Bainbridge’s story begins before age three—before doctors believed him, before the diagnoses, and before the world took his pain seriously. This episode ex…
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From Opioids to Ultra-Endurance: How I Reclaimed My Life from Chronic Pain
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This isn’t a story about suffering. This is a story about fighting back. For over five decades, chronic pain has been my reality—Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, and more dislocations than most doctors will see in a lifetime. 343,000 full dislocations. 2.92 million subluxations. Every step, every movement, a gamble. Doctors h…
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From Wheelchair to Ultra-Endurance: How I Reclaimed My Life from Chronic Pain
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This isn’t a story about suffering. This is a story about fighting back. For over five decades, chronic pain has been my reality—Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, and more dislocations than most doctors will see in a lifetime. 343,000 full dislocations. 2.92 million subluxations. Every step, every movement, a gamble. Doctors h…
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