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Chronic Pain members - Welcome, please introduce yourself
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Hi, I’m Ken,been hurting for about 5 yrs….the mid back in the thoracic level 7/8/9/10, it started with just a discomfort that radiates into the ribs, mostly right side, but does crossover, then it started burning,aching,and muscle pain.it’s lasts all day, then it started radiating to the base of my skull into both ears, pressure, and tinnitus, 4 different sounds, it almost makes me faint, as time went on,more and more,symptoms came,pain in stomach,and also a nausea feeling, then panic attacks or fright and flight, it’s horrible, also a feeling of heart burn,but it’s not, and where it burns Flem is always constant, when the pain lasts so long I get palps, in the same area as the pain, it palps so long it hurts in my sternum, also at the base of the skull, in cracks, snaps, like breaking a pencil in half, now as of late, constant chills, come and go all the time, I’m now72, and the outlook seems to be hopeless, I’ve dr.after dr. With zero help, I get so so sleep, and I’m looking for some input,maybe answers somebody must be in the same boat,tons of tests,and nothing out of wack
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@toopie52 Have you been checked to see if your vagus nerve is being compressed? Also, reading this some of it sounds like a type of dysautonomia. Other thing is you could have widespread nerve pain - for a long while I kept thinking something was wrong with my appendix, but it was really just nerve pain from SFN/CRPS. I'm not a Dr so I don't pretend to know, but I know the struggle of being in so much pain with frustrating quality of life and bouncing between Dr's for years. I truly feel for you, friend. I hope there will be more people responding to this post. Hang in there...
@toopie52 have you read The Way Out by Alan Gordon. I've have a horrible year and for the first time after adopting PRT I feel like I have some control and am starting to feel better. Yours may be all structural but from your description and your panic attacks/fright/flight, alot of your issues could be Neuroplastic related as it is a vicious cycle that keeps getting worse.
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My experience is a lot like yours - pain specialists have told me it is all part of chronic pain. I am fortunate to have legal opioids, CBD and use mindfulness breathing, yoga and Qigong to survive the decades of struggle. I had to stop looking for a cure and just focus on what I can do.
Some happiness is there.