Why You Hurt - Article
- From: "Janey Pooh" <janepooh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Sep 2006 08:06:50 -0700
This is an article about Nociceptive and Non-Nociceptive Pain. The
article explains it way better than I could.
www.immunesupport.com/fame/showarticle.cfm/ID/5
I'm having trouble opening websites right now, so I had to read the
Cached version:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:wk-yDahVQpEJ:www.immunesupport.com/fame/showarticle.cfm/ID/5+nociceptive+non-nociceptive+pain+fibromyalgia&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=6
Parts of it are very understandable, with almost no 'medicalese' words,
and parts of it are very technical - All The Way Through the article.
So if you get hung up on a technical part, don't just quit reading.
Move on. Skip the technical parts if you have to, and continue reading
the understandable parts - there's a lot of good information to be
gleaned <IMO> even if you don't understand all the science.
For myself in particular, I found this part really interesting (the
paragraph even *starts* with the word Interestingly! LOL)
"Interestingly electrical stimulation of the brain, during
neurosurgical procedures, does not induce pain sensations in pain free
subjects. However in past-pain patients it often re-awakens previous
pain experiences. It is surmised that such stimulation re-activates
cortical and subcortical pain circuits that were previously dormant."
For those who don't know me well, I've had fibro since 1989, but had
managed to learn how to 'cope' with most of my symptoms, and was back
at work full-time and then some. Then my doctors found a giant (walnut
sized) brain aneurysm on/in my Temporal Lobe and I had brain surgery in
Feb. 2005. Basically, they filled the aneurysm with Platinum Coils so
it can't fill with blood and burst. I ended up with Temporal Lobe
Epilepsy and many of my fibro symptoms came back and I had to
're-teach' my body and brain how to deal with it all again. The para.
above seems to me to say that the brain surgery and tests 'n stuff may
have brought back these symptoms.
"AHA!" says little ole me!!! I've had TONS of problems that I
associated with the *epilepsy*, mostly psychological problems (anxiety
and panic attacks, depression, bad sleep . . . ) but pain problems as
well, that I *think* may in fact be "re-activated cortical and
sub-cortical circuits". If this is the case - something SCARES the
pants off me . . .
I'm just starting to "feel better" again and I have to go have an
Angiogram of my brain in February. I know it's too soon to really
worry about this, but what if THAT procedure "re-activates" those
circuits again?????? They'll be futzing around in my brain again, even
if just with a very fine wire and some chemicals. I don't think I want
that, especially if it's going to re-activate the circuits I work
Sooooooo hard to calm - with medication, food choices, lifestyle
choices, light exercise and as low a stress level as humanly possible.
The last thing in the world that I want is to have a whole bunch of
problems start back up because my neurosurgeon wanted to go back in and
check out his handiwork.
What's a gal to do?
I got off track there for a minute, but anyway - GOOD article. Read it
in bits if you have to. It's kinda long.
and Take GOOD Care,
Jane
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