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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by matwood »

nwienert wrote: post #11

As someone who had years of undiagnosable pain and after many years (and more than one doctor trying to suggest it was all in my head) I just want to say to anyone reading who has it - Don’t let yourself be gaslit that it’s all mental. It seems some do have that, but there are also many hard to diagnose and completely valid physical health conditions that cause terrible chronic pain. And don’t give up on trying to fi…

> Don’t let yourself be gaslit that it’s all mental.

This is a big problem women have around menstrual cycle pain. "It's normal" is what many doctors say - particularly men. A woman I know was basically bed ridden for a couple days/month until she found a doctor who believed her and addressed the problem.

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Post by sizzle »

aspbee555 wrote: post #34

I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of ev…

I was thinking Lyme disease caused fatigue from the lead in sentence

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Post by rand17 »

algo_lover wrote: post #163

Why do all such articles never talk about the meat of the solution? Why do I always feel like I'm being sold something. Why is it so hard to explain the solution briefly, or directly present it to me upfront. Why does it need so much of mystery around it? In this article the OP does not even mention "Pain reprocessing theory" which is what they seems to be talking about (based on the study they have linked)

Chronic pain is complicated. There is no universal solution. Sometimes there's no solution at all.

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Post by rand17 »

kianN wrote: post #58

“As pain becomes chronic, it is increasingly associated with activity in the affective and motivational systems tied to avoidance and less closely tied to systems encoding nociceptive input” [1] I’ve been on the slippery slope of chronic pain. Minor post surgery issues caused me to change my routine and avoid certain activities which only exacerbated the issues, which led to more avoidance. Eventually I couldn’t walk…

You are not wrong in my opinion - at least all my doctors share the same idea.

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Post by baby »

aspbee555 wrote: post #34

I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of ev…

BTW I can relate but to me this was the savior:

- taking sport seriously

- regaining control over my life (which I did by creating a startup)

- moving to a city that cares about walking pedestrians and social life (moved from SF to New York!)

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Post by cousin_it »

algo_lover wrote: post #163

Why do all such articles never talk about the meat of the solution? Why do I always feel like I'm being sold something. Why is it so hard to explain the solution briefly, or directly present it to me upfront. Why does it need so much of mystery around it? In this article the OP does not even mention "Pain reprocessing theory" which is what they seems to be talking about (based on the study they have linked)

Hi algo_lover, I also noticed that about the post. The approach being discussed is "pain reprocessing therapy". It was described in a book called The Way Out, by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv. Here's my short summary of the book:

- Chronic pain is often generated by the brain, not any actual injury. Not always, but often. Especially if it gets worse during stress or high alert, and especially if the feeling of pain becomes connected to your fear of that same pain.

- In periods when pain is high, you need to kinda nurse it. Lie down, put warm water on it, whatever it takes. Don't try to power through the pain. Avoid situations where you have to power through.

- In periods when pain is moderate or low, take short sessions to examine it. "Ok, this isn't a threatening injury, this is just a sensation. Where is it located? What shape? Hot or cold? More dull or more like tingling?" Etc, etc. Don't hyperfocus, just explore the feeling in a light and curious way.

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Post by agumonkey »

glasscannon wrote: post #179
agumonkey wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, thanks for the thread, what are the websites you follow the most to read about this topic ? Sometimes I wish there was a medHN

agumonkey I love this - maybe it's about time a wellness/health "HN" was started. We're living in a time of chronic health dysfunction and lack of clarity. DM (and/or anyone else) if you'd like to jam For my recovery my reading/listening was focused on people like Dr Schubiner, Alan Gordon and some folks in Aus like Lorimer Moseley. I'm engaging more in linking research studies in now as I experienced a lot of people…

Thanks for the answer, I'll ping you.

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Post by hyperbolablabla »

cousin_it wrote: post #206
algo_lover wrote: post #163

Why do all such articles never talk about the meat of the solution? Why do I always feel like I'm being sold something. Why is it so hard to explain the solution briefly, or directly present it to me upfront. Why does it need so much of mystery around it? In this article the OP does not even mention "Pain reprocessing theory" which is what they seems to be talking about (based on the study they have linked)

Hi algo_lover, I also noticed that about the post. The approach being discussed is "pain reprocessing therapy". It was described in a book called The Way Out, by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv. Here's my short summary of the book: - Chronic pain is often generated by the brain, not any actual injury. Not always, but often. Especially if it gets worse during stress or high alert, and especially if the feeling of pain become…

This sounds LLMlish

Re: Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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Post by cousin_it »

hyperbolablabla wrote: post #208
cousin_it wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi algo_lover, I also noticed that about the post. The approach being discussed is "pain reprocessing therapy". It was described in a book called The Way Out, by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv. Here's my short summary of the book: - Chronic pain is often generated by the brain, not any actual injury. Not always, but often. Especially if it gets worse during stress or high alert, and especially if the feeling of pain become…

This sounds LLMlish

I'm a human and was just trying to write the most helpful reply to parent, but now that you point it out, yeah.
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