You're welcome, Rachel.

I was "diagnosed" with it years ago when my migraines went chronic. I never believed my head pain and other symptoms were migraine, stumbled across PainScience.com when it was called SaveYourself, and started reading everything I could, starting with central sensitization. Paul Ingraham's articles are heavily cited, so I went down many Google Scholar and PubMed rabbit holes, corroborating what I read with what I learned working in healthcare. PainScience is my go-to and I always find an article there and then read all the reference material.

My migraine disorder resolved by treating them as cervicogenic headache. I can see now how easy it can be to diagnose a patient with CS when they don't get well, depression and anxiety set in, which is a catch 22, which makes pain worse.

More recently, I was diagnosed with everything from GERD to anxiety to MS to fibromyalgia to inclusion body myositis. What I've found is that doctors can't even agree on the definition of pain and they often also fail to look for a musculoskeletal source for problems that seem organic, even when tests are negative. Again, central sensitization came up, but it wasn't...just another misdiagnosis. Trigger points were a feature in both of my pain problems, affecting my ab and back muscles and diaphragm. Costochondritis, intercostal neuritis, and xiphoidalgia were the real culprits.