Pain causes loss of serotonin

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>Enid wrote:

>I read the newsletter from the Pain Community tonight and they

discussed findings that chronic pain created changes in the brain

(the frontal cortex) which affected mood and sleep. So it may not

just be the actual pain alone, but in concert with actual neuronal

activity which leads to poor sleep from the central nervouse system.

I am glad to provide the source of the research if anyone is

interested.

Enid

Enid,

My pain specialist told me the first day that he saw me that I had no

serotonin left. I had burned it all up because of my pain level. In

his exact words, " You are truly suffering because of your pain and it

is affecting you globally. "

I have been on multiple medications since then to sleep and still wish

that I could sleep enough to regulate my own pattern. He doubts that

it will ever happen.

Thank you for sharing the information.

Lori