r/ChronicPain

Chronic Pain

Founded December 2009 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 29

For the broken, malfunctioning, pained people of the world and their friends/family. Got pain? This is the place to be. Bitching, complaining, whining, and otherwise venting about your condition is encouraged. Stop by the chat and say hi!

Members

173,949

174K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

30.5

from the last 100 posts, spanning 3.2 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

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not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

Sep 28

sampled Sep 29

Distinct posters

99%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 29 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Sep 29 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/ChronicPain — frequently asked

How many members does r/ChronicPain have?

r/ChronicPain has 173,949 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 29. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/ChronicPain growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/ChronicPain yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 29; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/ChronicPain?

Around 30.5 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 3.2 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/ChronicPain created?

r/ChronicPain was founded in December 2009 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/ChronicPain?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 99% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 28. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/ChronicPain?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/ChronicPain yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/ChronicPain for mentions?

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Can my AI agent read r/ChronicPain's stats?

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r/ChronicPain Subreddit Stats — 174K members, 30.5 posts/day