There has been a fair amount of research showing a positive correlation between childhood abuse and chronic pain. Not sure about chronic illnesses like neuropathy, but perhaps our pain threshold is affected? I was physically and emotionally abused as a child. I used to have a very high pain threshold, natural child births, lots of hideous dental and ear infections, sciatica, spinal arthritis. Never needed pain medicine until the past four or five years as the hereditary neuropathy escalated. Now I wonder how the younger me would react to the pain I am still in, even with morphine, Gabapentin, and Baclofen.

Have I become a wimp or is it this bad? Pain is so subjective it drives me crazy.