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I have never heard of this. Seems like you're suggesting that it is possible to recalibrate the brain to ignore pain - like a toothache, for example?
by parasti 4y ago
I have never heard of this. Seems like you're suggesting that it is possible to recalibrate the brain to ignore pain - like a toothache, for example?
- plutonorm 4y agoI think this is why doctors consider chronic pain kind of not a thing. We are supposed to recalibrate. But I'm personally pretty sure this is nonsense and they have convinced themselves this is true so they don't have to feel bad about withholding powerful painkillers due to society disapproving of them.
- thargor90 4y agoI guess oscillating pain is also "chronic pain" and you want calibrate for that.
- mkl 4y agoThis sounds pretty fanciful and ungrounded. In general doctors don't "consider chronic pain kind of not a thing". I have chronic pain, I see doctors about it, and none have ever expressed any doubt. Quite the opposite: some of the doctors are chronic pain specialists. There are pain management centres at hospitals to help people with it, and they prescribe "powerful painkillers" if they're useful, but they often just aren't (e.g. for me).
- t_mann 4y ago> so they don't have to feel bad about withholding powerful painkillers due to society disapproving of them little reality check for you: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html