In life, there is a kind of pain that is like boiling a frog in warm water. It occurs slowly and is easily overlooked by people, or it will pass if you just endure it. This is what is called chronic pain in medicine. Chronic pain brings harm to people’s body and mind, and reduces the quality of life. What’s more, people’s “suffering” is the biggest misunderstanding, and it is likely to bring serious consequences. Today, a pain doctor will introduce you to five kinds of pain that can’t be ignored.
Chronic headache requires treatment for a month.
When a sudden severe headache occurs, everyone feels unbearable and immediately goes to the hospital for examination. However, for chronic headaches, many people dismiss it as a minor problem. There are also many patients who have no abnormality after X-ray, CT, and even magnetic resonance examinations, so they ignore it.
Actually, this is very wrong. Chronic headaches lasting more than a month must be treated aggressively. Chronic headaches will not only affect the quality of life, causing upset, insomnia, etc., but also reduce the body’s resistance, reduce the body’s reactivity and emergency capacity, and even affect the function of the human body’s multi-system organs.
According to the World Health Organization Blue Book, controlling migraine can increase global GDP by two or three percent. It can be seen that headaches can still affect the national economy and people’s livelihood.
Severe neck and shoulder pain can be life-threatening
Neck and shoulder stiffness or pain is usually caused by keeping the neck and shoulders in one position for a long time without paying attention to activities.
Nowadays, people tend to sit in front of the computer all day and lack activities. Usually, there are still many people who keep their mobile phones in their hands every day, always looking down at their mobile phones, or drivers, etc. These people often experience stiffness in their necks and shoulders , Long-term bad habits may cause the gradual aging and degeneration of the cervical spine.
When the disc herniation compresses the spinal cord or the bone hyperplasia compresses the nerves and blood vessels, severe neuralgia, dizziness, and mobility impairment may require surgery, and sometimes surgery cannot completely improve the severe symptoms, it is too late to regret.
In addition, it should be noted that neck and shoulder pain may not only be a problem of the cervical spine, but the nerve reflex area of the heart may also be projected to the neck and shoulder. Therefore, cervical pain should also be actively checked, and must not be careless to prevent neglect. Danger to life.
Post-herpetic neuralgia can cause depression if it becomes a chronic disease.
After a month of herpes zoster, there is still pain left, we call it post-herpetic neuralgia .
This type of pain has various manifestations, but most of them are spontaneous or induced pain, often with acupuncture, knife cutting, burning, insect bites, light touch, wind, clothing or temperature. Small changes can induce pain, which makes people feel like “life is better than death”.
With aggressive treatment, most postherpetic neuralgia will gradually improve. However, if you don’t pay attention, wait for the pain to disappear, and wait for the vicious cycle of herpes zoster pain to involve and erode the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord and even the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, which may leave very stubborn and severe neuralgia, resulting in serious consequences.
Long-term severe pain can lead to mental-psychological diseases such as depression and mania, and make patients gradually enter a vicious circle of “pain-self-stress and loss of life ability-pain aggravation”.
Chronic low back pain can lead to loss of mobility if left alone
The most common cause of chronic low back pain is lumbar muscle strain. Lumbar muscle strain is a chronic lumbar strain, and it is also a well-known lumbar disease. Most people’s attitude to it is to drag it to death.
It is mainly caused by two reasons, one is that after acute lumbar sprain, the failure to timely and reasonable treatment results in the formation of chronic psoas traumatic scars and adhesions, weakening the strength of psoas muscle, Have back pain.
Another reason is the accumulation of long-term, cumulative waist micro trauma, such as some repairmen who work in a sitting position for a long time, often operate in non-physiological positions, and watch workers who work in a fixed posture for a long time. , typist, etc. In addition, some workers who need to bend over, if they usually do not pay attention to their posture and strengthen the exercise of the lumbar back muscles, may have accumulated damage to the waist, resulting in lumbar muscle strain.
Long-term low back pain will eventually lead to dysfunction of the spinal stabilization system, accelerated spinal deformation, and may develop into irreversible severe nerve compression in the later stage, resulting in intolerable low back pain and radiating pain in the lower extremities. Severe cases can affect the function of bowel and bladder, and even lose part or all of the ability to move.
Diabetic peripheral neuralgia can lead to amputation
Diabetes patients experience numbness in their hands and feet, like wearing a hand (sock) cover, or a needle-like feeling. There may be diabetes complicated by peripheral nerve damage.
In the event of this kind of neuralgia, if enough attention, close monitoring of blood sugar levels, and active treatment, endocrinologist and pain doctor cooperation, it is possible to control its progress or even gradually relieve the condition.
However, if enough attention is not paid to it and it is allowed to develop, the neuropathy will be further aggravated in the later stage, and neuropathic pain will appear, which means that the patient’s protective sensory function is abnormal, and in severe cases, there will be sensation Absence, hopelessness, and a sense of powerlessness can even lead to depression, seriously affecting the patient’s quality of life.
It is known that diabetic peripheral neuropathy is one of the main risk factors for the formation of foot ulcers in diabetic patients. Patients with high risk of foot ulcers may eventually lead to infection and gangrene, and patients will eventually be amputated.
