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Originally Posted by spine95
The pain is just unbearable but I will just have to learn to deal with it.
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Getting your adrenal hormones tested (pregnenolone, cortisol, testosterone for starters). The adrenal hormones have a lot to do with pain & stress, and how (well) we handle them.
Testosterone? For women?
YES. Women make, and need, testosterone too - just in much smaller quantities, and being
too low in it can definitely effect how you perceive & deal with pain.
http://www.practicalpainmanagement.c...-pain-patients
Both longterm chronic pain and opioid medications can deplete and suppress these adrenal hormones, and pain, left untreated, can have even more dire consequences.
Google:
effects of untreated intractable pain
I don't ask that anyone take my word for this. Check into it. Talk to your doctors. I've posted the pertinent article links here:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread156416.html
(To skip the off-topic posts, just read the first and any I posted that are titled
Update)
This therapy is working so well for me I want to scream it from the rooftops!
It is not a cure-all nor does it end pain, but it can make the pain and coping with it much easier by up to 1/2. Some patients have been able to decrease their medications by up to that amount, but realistically, I think it would be better to expect less and take what comes.
"
You can learn to live with it" and "
You’ll just have to tough it out" are two of the phrases
NOT to say to peoople in chronic pain.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post840028-5.html
Doc