Chronic Pain

This TED Talk video is about chronic pain or also known as hypersensitivity, it’s very similar to what I’m going through. It’s to the point that anything I touch is painful, a simple blowing on my hand is painful and putting on socks is pure torture. My whole body is hypersensitive, the best way I can explain it is that I feel with pain, it’s the only thing that keeps my hand from feeling like a rubber glove. The method of treatment they talk about is very interesting. I’ve tried the drugs and to be honest they do more harm than good. They made me very tired to the point I couldn’t function cognitively properly. And so I’ve learned to just deal with the pain. I’d rather be able to function. I value my intellect over my pain tolerance. As for the psychoactive treatment I’m very resilient to depression as long as I’m not on the drugs.

Here are some other links on demyelination

Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain
Wikipedia - Demyelinating disease