Mastodawn

Have you ever been in pain in such a way that when the pain stops the feeling of the pain being gone is almost as intense as the pain itself?

I've had this with a few things, mostly migraines, tooth aches, and one time what may have been a pinched nerve.

Maybe it's because the thing that scares me the most about pain, isn't the pain itself, which I can tolerate, I'm tough, I like to think. But, the thought of not being able to escape pain scares me.

What happens to the body when pain stops?

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Petra van Cronenburg

@futurebird Yes. And I always long for that moment.
Chronic or heavy pain rewires the brain in a false way. In our hospitals e.g. "pain management" is an important part of therapy: to help people not to develop a longer lasting pain. Medicaments can break it in the beginning. They say, the moment the pain installs in the brain, it gets difficult to get rid of it.

Chronic pain therapy is complicated and individual: the brain has to unlearn the feeling of pain. Rewiring ...