I met with my pain management doc last week. We talked about a lot of things, but mostly it as about being out of ideas. He suggested that perhaps I should begin to accept the fact that this is how I'm going to be.
I'm not ready for that, but I am ready to take a step back for a while. I'll try lifestyle changes, more PT... all the things that haven't worked in the past... Basically, this is just taking a break.
I brought up the idea that a large component may be a 'chronic pain disorder.' In many long-term chronic pain cases, the underlying pathology becomes minimal, but the years of chronic pain essentially rewire your brain and the way you percieve pain. This is a possibility.
I do have such certain pain responses to many activities that makes me think I do have a structural problem that may be fixed if it could be identified.
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