Symptoms of Chronic Pain Syndrome [CPS]

Chronic pain syndrome consists of a variable but significant level of chronic, genuine neurologically based pain, along with anxiety, depression and anger.

Where most people experience pain, it’s duration of varying lengths, once the body repairs the source of pain, the pain stops. Chronic pain however, persists beyond the duration of healing. The pain signals fail to shut down, continuing to fire in the nervous system for weeks, months, even years.

Some people also suffer chronic pain in the absence of any past injury or body damage. Chronic pain is real, unrelenting, and demoralizing.

It can overwhelm all other symptoms, destroy businesses, careers, lifestyles and relationships. Physical activity of any kind becomes exhausting and may further aggravate the pain, the sufferer becoming the victim of a vicious circle in which they become so tuned into the pain it leads to irritability, anger and depression.

Sleep is disturbed, compounding the tiredness caused by the pain and a downward spiral ensues. Some specialists refer to this state as the "terrible triad" of suffering, sleeplessness, and sadness. A strong desire to do anything to stop the pain leads some patients to alcohol or drug-dependency and way out cures.

Chronic pain may be headache, low back pain, cancer pain, arthritis pain, or neuralgias and neuropathies that affect nerves throughout the body.

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