Opioids help in the short run, but they're actually not good for long-term use. In the long run, they make people more sensitive to pain via a process known as opioid-induced hyperalgesia.
First, see your doctor to find out what's causing your chronic symptoms. It's possible that you have environmental allergies, food allergies, a nutritional deficiency, digestive issues, overuse of antibiotics, or...
Reproducible chest pain (pain only by pressing on the chest) is usually not angina but rather musculoskeletal. Such pain should be further discussed with your physician to further differentiate.
So, there are all these nerves running through your spine. If you have any trauma or muscle inflammation, it can pinch those nerves and cause some irritation. Lying on your...
"Chronic" is a classification of pain based on time. So chronic pain always lasts more than 3 months, although some people will say it's more around 6 months. This is...
Actually, patients with chronic pain should try to be as active as is deemed allowable by their physician. There are probably only a limited number of things that are truly...
