Chronic Pain can occur in any part of the body and may last for months or years. It affects daily life activities and might lead to anxiety and depression as well that makes your pain worse.
Chronic pain lasts for more than three months. You can sense it all the time and it may also come and go. It can occur anytime at any part of your body. Chronic pain affects daily activities and might lead to depression, anxiety, and sleeping difficulties that make your pain worse. It can come in different forms like neck pain, arthritis, cancer pain, muscle pain, fibromyalgia, testicular pain, back pain, neurogenic pain, etc.
Whenever you hurt yourself, you get injured and then pain sensors in that area are turned on. They send electrical signals to the brain through nerves. The brain then processes the signal and sends the message that you are hurt. When the signal is stopped the cause of the pain is resolved and your body starts to repair the wound. But in the case of chronic pain, the nerve signals sent to the brain keep firing even when you are healed.
Sometimes chronic pain occurs without any obvious cause. It gets started because of your health condition or injury. Past injuries, surgeries, back problems, arthritis, nerve damage, infections, fibromyalgia, and migraines cause chronic pain.
If you got hurt then you can visit your doctor or a pain specialist. You can also undergo relaxation therapy, physical therapy, changes in your lifestyle, acupuncture, getting enough sleep, and quitting smoking will help you deal with your chronic pain in natural ways.
Chronic pain adversely affects daily activities like your social life, working, taking care of yourself, etc. This may also lead to depression, anxiety, and sleeping difficulties that worsen your pain further. Such type of responses creates a cycle that is not so easy to break.
There are certain foods that you must avoid while dealing with chronic pain, as they are widely known to increase inflammation are as follows: -
You must learn deep breathing exercises, and meditation, to make yourself feel relaxed. Reduce stress in your life, or join a support group to share your feelings and get relaxed. Quit alcohol and smoking and track your pain level and activities.
Yes, it is quite challenging to treat chronic pain as the complex nature of pain.
A nerve conduction velocity i.e. NCV test is recommended to identify nerve damage. During this test, your nerve is stimulated with electrode patches attached to your skin to measure how fast electrical impulse is moving through your nerve.
Yes, an accurate diagnosis of chronic pain could be difficult. There are several relevant chronic pain types that make it hard to determine the cause of symptoms in the patient, as many chronic pain shares the same symptoms.
