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The Pain caused by cancer usually falls into one of two categories:
Nociceptive Pain and Neuropathic Pain.
Nociceptive pain is caused by damage to tissue. It is usually described as sharp, aching, or throbbing pain. It is often due to tumours or cancer cells that are growing larger and crowding body parts near the cancer site. It may also be from cancer that has spread to the bones, muscles, or joints, or caused a blockage of an organ or blood vessels.
Neuropathic pain happens when there is actual nerve damage. It may be caused by a tumour pressing on a nerve or a group of nerves. People often describe this pain as a burning or heavy sensation, or numbness.
If you have been diagnosed with cancer pain, talk to your doctor to learn whether you may be a candidate for pain-control pump (intrathecal drug delivery). Your doctor (or a doctor to whom you are referred) will put you through a screening process to determine if these treatments may benefit you. Results vary; not every result is the same.
Key messages about cancer pain
The experience of pain will be different for every patient.
? Pain does not always get worse. The level of pain experienced may remain unchanged, or may increase or decrease. In any situation medication can be adjusted to ensure pain relief.
? Pain is not related to the extent of the cancer. Experiencing pain does not necessarily mean that the cancer is more serious than if you had no pain.
? Take action as soon as the pain starts. Take pain relief when you first start to feel uncomfortable. It is harder to ease pain once it has taken hold. Taking medication for pain relief when the pain is bearable will not make the medication less effective later. The aim is to prevent pain. If you wait until the pain comes back you will suffer from unnecessary pain.
? When pain relief is taken regularly or ‘by the clock’ (such as every 4 hours), there is little danger that you will become addicted to these drugs. Addiction to pain killers is very rare in women with metastatic breast cancer. The dose can be tailored to your needs. Doses are increased or decreased according to the severity of your pain.
? Drugs for pain do not usually make you feel drowsy after the first or second day. Drowsiness can occur with strong pain relief drugs like morphine. However, the drowsiness usually passes in one or two days. People vary in how the medication affects them. You should ask your general practitioner about whether you can drive or work with machinery, and the effect of drinking alcohol with your medication.
? If one drug does not effectively help your pain, many other drugs or combinations of drugs can be used to give you pain relief. There is a large range of effective drugs for pain of all types and severity. It may take time, in consultation with your doctor, to establish the drug or drug combination that is right for you.
? Any pain can be difficult to cope with. However, pain is more difficult to cope with if you are also experiencing anxiety or depression. Also, being in pain can make you more likely to be depressed or anxious. If you are concerned by the feelings you are experiencing, it is important that you talk to your doctor as soon as possible.
Why Do People Suffer With Pain?
Many people suffer with chronic pain because they are unaware of treatment options that can help them live more normal lives. Others have fears that prevent them from talking about their pain, which in turn creates barriers to seeking adequate relief. (Not all treatment options are applicable to your type of pain.)
Read the following to see if you fall into one of these categories. If you can relate to these fears, remember that help and relief are possible, but only if you discuss your symptoms with your doctor.
? Fear of being labelled a “bad patient.” You won’t find relief if you don’t talk with your doctor about your pain.
? Fear that increased pain may mean that your disease has worsened. Regardless of the state of your disease, the right treatment for pain may improve daily life for you and your family.
? Fear of addiction to drugs. Research shows that the chance of people with chronic pain becoming addicted to pain-relieving drugs is extremely small. When taken properly for pain, drugs can relieve pain without addiction. Needing to take medication to control your pain is not addiction.
? Lack of awareness about pain therapy options. Be honest about how your pain feels and how it affects your life. Ask your doctor about the pain therapy options available to you. Often, if one therapy isn’t effectively controlling your pain, another therapy can.
? Fear of being perceived as “weak.” Some people believe that living stoically with pain is a sign of strength, while seeking help often is considered negative or weak. This perception prevents them seeking the best treatment with available therapies.
Management of Pain and side effects
You may experience acute pain due to your illness or after surgery. You do not need to put up with this pain, your health care team can work with you to prevent or control just about any kind of pain. A combination of pain control methods may be used to give you greater relief from pain.
Don’t let pain control you! Because there are many new ways to treat pain, it is important that you speak openly and honestly with your doctor or with a doctor who specializes in treating chronic pain.
Terry O’Brien
BackTrouble UK.
Links:
http://www.BackDoctor.org.uk
http://www.BackTrouble.co.uk
Whittier Chiropractor
Looking for back pain solutions can feel like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack sometimes. Back pain is one of the most common and elusive physical problems people experience. You can literally suffer with chronic pain on a daily basis and still have to listen to doctors tell you there is no reason why you are hurting so badly. When the pain is caused by an obvious tear in a muscle or arthritis the cause of the pain is identifiable. But most people are not that lucky.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who have sought back pain relief through surgery only to discover the surgery did not work. Some people decide to try medication out of sheer desperation. The problem with taking prescription drugs for a problem that has no apparent cause is the fact you might be facing a life of drug therapy. There are plenty of people who innocently begin a program of drugs seeking pain relief only to find they have become addicted.
Back pain is one of the major causes of disability and often leads to work absences. When you have upper or lower back pain your whole life is affected. Pain that occurs anywhere along the spine from the neck to the tailbone is generally called back pain. The pain can emanate from the spine itself or from the nerves or muscles in the back. The pain can be acute or chronic. But whether your back hurts for a short or long time, the result is the same. Your quality of life is impacted because you cannot move without pain.
The causes of back pain can vary. The pain can be caused by muscle strain or tears, spine problems like a slipped disk or osteoporosis. The pain can also be caused by nerve damage, weakness in the muscles from aging and lack of exercise, and a multitude of mysterious problems that seem to have no source. Annually, over 65 million Americans a year visit a doctor seeking back pain solutions. Many end up taking prescription medications out of desperation.
Doctors are often not anxious to pursue alternatives to traditional medicine. But over thousands of years there have been many different successful alternative pain management strategies developed. These include acupuncture, massage, osteopathy and magnetic therapy. Of these alternatives the magnetic therapy is the only one which does not require the assistance of another person.
Back pain solutions that work best are often those which are non-invasive. Surgery should be a last resort, because operating on the back is always a delicate procedure with a high risk of causing permanent damage. The back is made up of a series of bones that look like they have been stacked like children’s blocks. In between the bones are cushioning discs. The whole structure is held together by ligaments, tendons and the surrounding muscles. Inside the spine is the spinal cord from which multiple nerves spread out into the body.
With such an amazing construction it is no wonder that so many people have back problems. Injuries at work and home, discs that bulge from too much pressure put on the back, inflammation of the nerves and genetics can lead to back pain. People who sit a lot at work such as at a desk are the ones most prone to lower back pain. Upper back pain is often caused by back overuse or back strain and tension.
There is no reason to live with chronic back pain without any relief when there are back pain solutions such as magnetic therapy that can block pain on a temporary basis. Alternative therapy for back pain may finally offer the relief you need so you can restore the quality of your life.
Andy West is a writer for QuadraBloc, a unique, therapeutic, non invasive, non pharmacological alternative for pain management. For more information on back pain solutions, visit Quadrabloc.com.
At one point or another each of us has experienced pain.
Though few people actually welcome it, few would deny that it has an essential role to play in our survival. After all, without pain, we simply wouldn’t be aware that tissue damage is taking place somewhere in our body and that we need to do something – fast.
In any approach to pain, of course, we need to first check with a qualified doctor or other medical practitioner. It is essential that we get a proper medical evaluation of our situation and the correct treatment for any disease or injury that we may have suffered.
But what if we have already done this? But what if we have already received and understood the message pain brings, done all we – and the doctor – can do and yet still the pain exists?
This is the predicament faced by millions of us on a daily basis. And living with this kind of pain seriously affects the quality of life for anyone forced to experience and endure it.
Generally speaking, pain may be divided into two distinct types: Acute pain and chronic pain.
Acute pain is useful and indeed, essential. It informs us of what needs attention and this is the reason for its existence. It’s a signal relayed from the wounded area to the brain alerting us to take action.
But chronic pain is altogether different. With pain of this kind, we have already received the message and still it persists. It is ongoing and relentless. It’s as if we seem to be just stuck with it.
Indeed, the chronic pain generated by conditions such as rheumatism, back and shoulder pain, arthritis, migraine headaches, post surgical pain, cancer (and sometimes its treatment), fybromyalgia etc serves no useful purpose. It is unneeded for our survival.
Put simply, chronic pain is useless pain.
When pain outlives its usefulness it needs to be muted or silenced.
Perhaps the most surprising thing is that we almost always look to ourselves last in any attempt to control our chronic pain. Yet it is within our self and our own mind that real pain relief and truly effective pain control can be found.
Because we are so accustomed to looking outside of ourselves for help with pain, we seem to have a learned mind-set of helplessness when it comes to chronic pain. We have been conditioned to accept that something or someone external to ourselves is responsible for making pain go away.
Understanding that we have it within our self to control pain is a major step forward in releasing its truly debilitating grip on our life.
And this is the wonderful power of using hypnosis and self-hypnosis for pain relief.
With properly applied hypnosis we are empowered to instruct our own mind to dramatically reduce – and in many cases totally eliminate – any pain we may be experiencing.
No drugs, no apparatus, no TEMS machines are needed. Indeed, hypnosis is so powerful that it can be, and sometimes is, used instead of local or general anaesthetic in order to completely eliminate pain even in major surgery.
All that’s required is your mind’s own innate capacities and abilities.
If you or someone you care about suffers from chronic pain, there really is something you can do about it.
By working with an experienced and fully qualified transformational hypnotherapist, you can learn how to control even long-standing chronic pain.
Using the power of your own mind you can indeed learn to control pain – and regain control of your life.
Whittier Chiropractor
The axiom “no pain, no gain” simply is not true. Envision all of the times pain has hindered you from engaging in activities that you enjoy – perhaps running, playing tennis, fishing and even sitting can be impossible when you are in pain. Did you gain anything from missing out on memories?
However, the adage that “Pain is all in your head” can, in fact, be true. If that is the case, then the cure is all in your head, also. With hypnosis, pain can disappear completely. Despite what you may think, hypnosis is simply a mental state during which messages can reach the unconscious more easily. The state of hypnosis is characterized by deep relaxation. In fact, with regular practice of a self hypnosis pain elimination regimen, you will feel much more calm over all.
Pain is a signal that something in your body is amiss. So pain is actually a positive thing. But after you have your doctor check you out to ensure that the pain is not indicating a harmful condition like a tumor, it’s time to manage or even eliminate the pain.
There is no risk in a hypnotherapeutic pain relief program. You cannot “get stuck” in a hypnotic state. The worst that would ever happen when you use self hypnosis for pain reduction is that you could fall into a natural state of sleep for a half hour- think of all of the nights that pain has kept you from sleeping!
This is not to say that a hypnotherapeutic pain management system is similar to sleep, because that is the major misunderstanding about hypnosis. When you are asleep, you’re unconscious. If you are unconscious, then you cannot hear anything. If you cannot hear anything, then a hypnotherapist cannot assist you. Hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.
Despite being consciously aware of everything, hypnotherapeutic pain management programs can tackle both physical and mental causes and introduce many effective avenues to eliminate pain. Medicines only block the reception of the physical symptoms of pain briefly, but hypnotherapeutic pain regimens can actually decrease the amount and strength of pain signals that you sense. You can literally reprogram your body to send less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain-killing medications, or in many cases no medications at all.
Endorphins are opiate-like elements that are manufactured in the brain. They are the elements that cause athletes to get a high when they workout very hard. Using self hypnosis, you can also discover how to program your brain to create pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then send them to the painful area where they are required.
Thanks to endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a mild anesthesia, as well as complete anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of reports both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when major surgery has been completed under hypnoanesthesia.
Hypnosis can also be used to program the mind to direct your attention away from pain, which will help you perceive much less discomfort. Further, hypnotherapeutic pain management CDs can help our mind realize and understand that the pain is there, but not to let us feel it. A qualified hypnotherapist will know how to completely address additional hypnotic suggestions that will aid in your recovery.
A very effective hypnosis pain remedy lies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after dealing with chronic pain, you may be doubtful that a hypnotherapeutic pain program will get the job done. In many cases, NLP techniques actually are more successful for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was created for people like you who are brought up to question and analyze everything. When we analyze, we tend to put up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.
Stressful feelings always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most successful NLP patterns for eliminating stress is known as the “Flash.” This tool reprograms the unconscious mind to use mental images that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that create feelings of relaxation in their place. After you have used this technique, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that trouble you, because your unconscious will instantly and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.
Self hypnosis and pain relief go hand in hand. If you are exhausted from coping with prescriptions that render you in no condition to drive or to fully experience life, or worse, of living with the throbbing, stabbing or shooting pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can provide safe, natural and instantaneous relief.
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Chronic pain is a condition that lasts for about six months once the body has been healed. Usually people with chronic pain are not aware of what is causing pain to their body. One goes through a lot of discomfort, pain, anger, anxiety, depression and low self esteem due to chronic pain. The pain can even interfere in undergoing daily activities.
The good news is that chronic pain can be treated. The treatment of chronic pain usually involves certain therapies and medicines. Some of the medicines used for pain relief under these conditions include anticonvulsants, pain relievers and antidepressants.
There are also short-acting medicines that work towards treating pain. Those medicines work best on pain that live for a short moment and bounce back again.
Experts also recommend physical therapies such as stretching and strengthening activities. Low impact exercises can also be used to treat pains such as biking, walking and swimming.
However, it would be wise to consult a veteran doctor prior to indulging in any kind of physical activities.
Exercising too much can be bad for chronic pain patients. Another treatment is behavioral therapy. This therapy can help in reducing pain through different methods such as yoga and meditation.
These therapies will certainly help you relax. It can also help in decreasing stress levels in the body. One also needs to make certain changes in lifestyle. This will play a major role in treating chronic pain. One must also concentrate on getting regular sleep at night.
Make sure that you don?t take frequent naps at day time. Don?t smoke. Try to give up smoking if you can. The nicotine present in cigarettes can make the medicines less effective. According to a study, smokers suffer from more pain as compared to non smokers.
Remember that pain treatments meant for removing chronic pain won?t take away all your pain. These treatments work towards reducing the intensity of pain as far as possible.
It is important to tell your doctor about the intensity of pain as well as how frequently it occurs. You also need to tell you doctor about what makes your pain worse or feel better.
Chronic pain can be relieved with the help of exercises, stretching and several physical therapies. Exercise is said to increase blood flow, in the body. Physical activities also helps in easing joint stiffness, speeds up weight loss and eliminates stress, anxiety and depression that comes with chronic pain.
Chiropractic, massage and acupuncture are also certain alternative methods used for providing relief from chronic pain. The method of using these techniques differs according to the intensity and history of the pain suffered by the individual.
Another best option is to go for a good ergonomic office chair. It is an important equipment to provide good relief from chronic back pain.
However, prior to adopting any kind of technique or going for a strenuous exercise, it is important to consult your health care professional. The health care professional will suggest you pain relief techniques and exercises according to the condition of your body and intensity of pain.
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Although pain affects more than 76 million Americans, it can be an isolating experience. According to the American Pain Foundation, pain is a critical, biological warning sign to the body when something. Pain can signal injury, such as touching a hot oven, or an underlying disease or infection, such as cancer or shingles. Pain is classified as acute or chronic. Acute pain usually follows surgery or injury and resolves as the body heals itself. Pain is diagnosed as chronic when it persists after healing has taken place.
Failure to treat acute pain promptly and appropriately can contribute to the development of chronic pain syndromes. In such cases, pain signals remain active in the nervous system for weeks, months or even years. In addition, pain can lead to other health problems, causing damage to the body. If untreated, chronic pain can weaken the immune system, decrease the quality of life, create feelings of anger and depression, lead to a deterioration of relationships, and result in a loss of independence.
Many people wrongly assume they have to live with pain – that it is an inevitable part of their disease or condition, or a natural part of growing older. The fact is most pain can be relieved with proper pain management.
Pain should be assessed thoroughly and treated early and aggressively. Early treatment is the best way to minimize the suffering and disability often associated with under-treated pain.
It’s important to become your own best advocate as you navigate the road to pain relief and reclaim your life. The earlier you seek treatment, the better. Following are some helpful things to keep in mind from the American Pain Foundation:
In the search for a healthcare provider who will help you reach your goals of pain relief and management, you may have been told, “Nothing more can be done to ease your pain,” or “You’ll just have to live with it.” If this is your situation, take the time to find a healthcare provider who has the education, skills and willingness to work with you to manage pain. Don’t be afraid to speak up. Only you know the extent of your pain and how it affects your quality of life.
Consider starting a pain notebook, a tool to help you keep a record of pain. The notebook should include when the pain occurs, for how long, the level of pain, and its impact on day-to-day life. Keeping track of what things make your pain better or worse will help your healthcare team find the best ways to treat pain.
Knowledge is power. There are a variety of drug and non-drug therapies (e.g., physical therapy, yoga, meditation) available to effectively control pain. These are typically used in combination. Ask your healthcare provider about ways to relax and cope with pain. Pain can feel worse if you are stressed, depressed or anxious. Be an informed consumer and learn all you can about pain and pain management options.
As you work with your healthcare provider, set realistic goals for things you most want to do. Do you want to achieve better sleep? Begin exercising or return work? Begin with the easiest goals first. Set realistic goals for pain relief. Persistent pain tends not to disappear. Look for a provider who will work with you to get you to the point where you can “live life again.”
Prior to appointments, write down questions you have and let your provider know if there is something you don’t understand. Also, bring along a relative or close friend to provide support and to help take notes and remember what was said. Sometimes, it’s easy to forget or misunderstand what was explained during doctor’s appointments. Having someone else there to process the information can be a great boost to your appointments.
During initial appointments, share with your provider what over-the-counter medications, vitamins and supplements you take, at what does and how often. Also, be honest about personal health habits, such as smoking, alcohol use, etc., which can interfere with some pain treatments and increase pain levels.
Finally, find out about support groups and educational programs in your area or online. Also seek the support and encouragement of friends and family members when you need them. They can provide the incentive you need to not give up in your quest for pain relief. And remember, there will be both good and bad days. Give yourself some grace as you traverse the road to pain relief.
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