Knowing why and how they help can make them more reasonable.
Their purpose is to stop clot formation and travel in the body.
"i'm avoiding a stroke" is a better thought than "these god damn things are chaffing".

The only thing I notice from my surgury today is the pressure bandage. That sucker is tight! No thick tissue except bone were cut.

To have a more open mind, I had a reversable timpantion done by installing a plastic zipper over the vibe vent on my right occipital lobe. A lid over the timpanation/zipper is sewn in the back of several ball caps. If I ever want to close off my mind completely I just wear the thickest lid in the Red cap. The blue cap lets in 1/2 the vibes and the white cap is just a hat.

To pick up vibes from the overlords I take off my hat unzip the vibe vent and aim my timpanation at Betelgeuse.