Chronic Pain Conditions & Fibromyalgia
The discomfort of chronic pain and chronic pain conditions like fibromyalgia can be mildly inconvenient to completely overwhelming and compromise your ability to function. These pain conditions are actually a dysfunction of your normal pain response that becomes embedded into your body and brain. Because your pain system is not functioning correctly, traditional methods of treating pain are rarely effective. The solution is treating the dysfunction of the pain system.
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Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Syndromes
What is Fibromyalgia?
Pain is your body’s way of telling you something is wrong, usually tissue damage or injury. Signals from your peripheral nerves travel to your brain, where you process those signals. Because our brains are connected to more than our musculoskeletal system (emotions, hormones, pleasure centers, hunger input, and higher level processing), signals sometimes get crossed, and sensations from the musculoskeletal system that may not be unpleasant by themselves are connected to emotional signals that can be very unpleasant (trauma/abuse). Our brains then process non-damaging inputs as dangerous and to be avoided. Fibromyalgia is complex in that it involves confusion between our signaling systems for physical pain, emotional pain, fight or flight issues, and mental health. Treating fibromyalgia as purely musculoskeletal pain is only addressing one component of a multifaceted problem.
How does Fibromyalgia affect me?
Fibromyalgia causes pain and unpleasant sensations from contact that normally shouldn’t cause pain. Light to moderate touch to certain body areas elicits a painful response. Because of the heightened sensitivity to physical contact, fibromyalgia makes relationships, physical activity, and everyday life difficult to enjoy. Fibromyalgia is closely associated with gastrointestinal issues, headaches, idiopathic chronic pain syndromes, depression, and anxiety. Sometimes, we call these conditions mind-body syndromes because they all involve dysfunctional neural processing of normal environmental inputs. Eventually, your body thinks that pain is its natural state and doesn’t need active tissue damage or unpleasant input to cause the sensation of pain.
What treatments are available for Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia and other mind-body syndromes should be treated with a more holistic approach than treating only one aspect of the condition. Ketamine has natural pain relief properties but also significantly influences the remodeling of neurons in the brain to process incoming signals better. New studies are suggesting that low-dose naltrexone therapy may improve symptoms for those with fibromyalgia and mind-body syndromes. Nutritional support with peptides and vitamins, as well as hormone testing and replacement, can play a big part in helping people with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and mind-body syndromes heal, restore, and revive.