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10-21-2008, 10:51 PM
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Pain management is one of the largest problems of today and is to be included in every form of illness, including the psycological side of the house. There are thousands and thousands of ways to deal with pain, but no 100% positive cure. There seems to be limitless ways that pain get's initiated as well. With all of this and more, it would seem almost impossible to do anything about it. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I would like to discuss some of that truth here. You see, with all pain, there are somethings that they have in common. Understanding those commonalities helps to reduce the amount of pain being felt. For instance: Everyone knows that pain is the way your body has to tell you that something is wrong. The more pain, the worse the problem is. Also, the more pain, the less your body wants you to move or touch the area. So we can almost say that it is a defensive measure that body takes as well as an informational one. We also know, especially in the case of MS, that what ever "they" give you to deal with the pain will not stop it totally, and eventually your body will overcome it making it useless. (At least for me.) I'm going to jump round here due to MS getting in the way. Sorry. Okay, let's take it slow and in this manner: Your legs are sending some world class pain signals to your brain and nothing you have is even slowing it up. You can't sleep, can't lay in bed, and sitting in your chair doing compression releases aren't having any effect either. In short you are an emotional wreck, and the pain seems to be getting worse. BEFORE you call and scream at your doc to do something, (which they won't without seeing you first) I want you to try this. Just give it an honest try one time. First, realize what pain is. It is a chemical stimulis to your nerves that transmit a signal to your brain. The pain, is not causing any actual damage to you, it is merely sending a signal. That signal is following a specific path from the exact place that is in trauma and leads to your brain. Some of it will branch off to your spine which controls your reflexsystem. This is to try to get you to move away from the source causing the trauma, as in the case of getting burnt. Ignore that as it happens to fast. Try instead, to 'feel' the route the nerve going to your brain is taking. This will help you locate exactly at what point the pain is comming from. If possible, look at the site. Try to determine what movement, (slowly!) makes the pain less or greater. The same holds true for pressure. Try elevation, tensing and relaxing the area. It has been noted with RA patients that a session of physical workout of the surrounding area, at the time of pain, does actually reduce the pain levels considerably. So with MS related pain, you might try this. A bit ago, we said that there is no 100% cure to pain. Knowing this and actually forcing that into your head when you are in pain, should, (when allowed to) remove part of the stress of pain. That is, "how much more of this do I have to take?" Make no mistake, one way or another, you will have to take it, just like all the other times. So on that issue, try to let it go; there is nothing you can do about it anyway, and it is taking energy away from managing the pain. If that fact helpped, then you saw/see a relationship of what we are saying, and an actual reduction in pain, however slight. Since this is true, then there is no real reson to cry, whine, or do any other theatrics usually associated with pain. Instead, get logical on it. Again, discover as much as you can about your pain; what actually brought it on, was there things going on hours days or weeks before the onset, that you did that set it in motion? Keep asking and digging into the pain with the intent to learn as much about the causes of it as possible. The idea is, when you DO talk with your doc, you can speak from an informed stance, and not an angry, frustraited, blame tossing one. The former attitude is far more likely to be met with a spirit of coperation; the latter being met with, "take some Ibuprophen and call me never." I'm going to stop here, and see what you have to say up to this point, then I will continue. By the way, I have done extensive research on this in order to deal with my own chronic pain, so I'm not simply spouting mindless drivel, though it might just be that. You never can tell what a plaque head is going to say next.  MSDave
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