Biofeedback

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Marta,

When I took Biofeedback training, they hook you up to a machine that has waves

that monitor your temperature, heart rate, and other things that register stress

or pain. They teach you to use deep breathing and techniques and some actually

work .

The " gate theory " of pain is that the gate can stuck open and it allows the pain

to keep on without stopping it and some other stimuli has to stop or lessen it.

This can be pain medication or the stimulus you are now using.

The now classic spinal gate control theory, which was first proposed in the

1960s by the Canadian psychologist and British physiologist is a plausible and

respected explanation. It suggests that there is a nervous system mechanism

that, in effect, opens or closes a gate, controlling pain stimuli traveling to

the brain where they are interpreted.

This link below on the website " Neuroscience for Kids " has the most effective

explanation and illustrations of the pain, the gate theory, and things that

disrupt the pain cycle and reduce pain.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/pain.html

When I do research on a subject to understand it better I always add " for kids "

and I get more informative websites I can understand : )

I have not welcomed all the new members individually and have not posted as I

had some of those " pain days " recently. Welcome new members and you are now in

the best supportive group you can find.

The moderators are great and assist you a lot, and Lyndi will correct you if you

put alot like this so you better spell it a lot or you get beaten with a wet

noodle.

I always have to tease her as she really is great assisting with the formatting

that is needed to assist visually impaired members.

Marta, the pain you describe is actually " intractable pain " and it is when you

have pain 24/7 and it will never go away because the pain generator cannot be

disrupted.

The pain journal I kept had descriptors and I have actually used some not so

nice descriptors to Nurses as dumb as the ones you have described.

I told a Nurse one time my pain was a ten and she told me that it couldn't be as

the ten pain is like when you had been run over by a truck.

I told her that I felt as I had. When she took my blood pressure and it was

230/105, she got very quiet and said, you must be in pain.

I guess you have to moan or groan. I told my husband you have to be puking or

bleeding for them to address your pain. The magic words are " chest pain. "

I had chest pain one time and all of a sudden I was hooked up to all kinds of

EKG machines, IV's, and had to stay overnight.

So then my husbands says, remember, puking (sometimes they just give you a pan

to puke in ) , bleeding, and chest pain and then you will be seen.

I am sorry I rambled but this is a soap box issue with me also and I really

don't deal with it well and I become a " Witch " with another word that rhymes

that I am normally not.

Thankfully, I have gotten good Doctors and when I didn't, I have tracked my pain

and how I responded to their treatment and asked for it to be put in my medical

records. They really change their tune or I leave. The pain contract is two

sided and there is a " Pain Patients Bill of Rights " and the Pain Act.

Welcome and hope you find something that is helpful.

Bennie

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