Is your Chronic Pain communicating something?

How do you communicate with someone? Through a phone call, email, text? Right?

Now think how your body communicates with you.

It can’t send you a text or email. So, it shows distress through signs and symptoms.

One of these biggest signs is pain. While acute pain tells you usually about an injury that requires attention, chronic pain (pain that lasts for at 12 weeks or more) is often a symptom of a deeper underlying condition or injury. Pain may also be accompanied by other signs, such as feeling tired all the time, losing or gaining weight, sleeplessness, anxiety, irritability, changes in appetite, and fever.

Chronic Pain

All pain is not same. Pain may be dull or sharp, constant or intermittent, and so on.

The pain type, location and severity, along with accompanying symptoms, can serve as clues as to the underlying cause. It may be related to a known injury, or an underlying condition. In any case, your body is trying to tell you something important and you must pay attention.

Many injuries and disorders can cause chronic pain. Osteoarthritis is one of the most common debilitating condition that causes chronic pain. Causes of pain may range from minor to severe and include everything from fibromyalgia to ulcers, appendicitis, or even cancer. 

Pain is also a complex thing to address since it can be difficult to describe as well as evaluate, because no one else can feel what the patient is feeling and exactly the way as you experience it. There is no single test to measure pain. However, there are several different kinds of tests that can help your pain doctor accurately diagnose the underlying causes of your pain.

Once diagnosed, your pain physician can help find the most suitable treatment options for your pain and its root cause. In chronic pain, the goal is to identify the cause, use effective treatment options to alleviate or reduce it and to restore function for a better quality of life for the patient.

Do not ignore chronic pain. Advancements in medicine and the pain medicine specialty provide several minimally invasive pain management options that can help you obtain lasting relief, without dependence on opioids or potentially risky surgery. Chronic pain is not likely to go away on its own, and it could be a sign of something serious. So, if you or a loved one is experiencing stubborn, chronic pain, see a restorative pain management doctor right away.

If you are looking for pain management or internal medicine doctors in San Diego, book an appointment with Pacific Medical Care at 619-333-8114. Pacific Medical Care’s mission is to provide access to a diverse suite of healthcare services, designed to optimize the health and wellness of the communities they serve.

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