Chronic Pain

[Trapped_Lost]

Did you know that chronic pain can be associated with PTSD?

I actually hurt my back at work and have given birth to two fairly large babies. So I know a little bit of it is from that. But I was wondering if anyone else has chronic back pain or just pain in general that is either unexplained or you have reasons but it shouldn’t hurt as bad as it does from something minor ?

Just found it odd that a symptom for PTSD is chronic pain.

 

[Eagle3]

After nearly 30+ years of unexplained pains, various injuries that refuse to heal, and no proof of anything really wrong, I've recently realized (after a bout of medication gone awry) that the physical pain is really my various bodies sublimating my need to die. The physical pain I feel is my various parts and selves expressing the pain they're in, but not having a healthy way to do so. If I take medications that makes the pain go away, I suddenly have a very real need to lay down in front of a speeding train. As long as I have some kind of physical pain going on, I'm happy, healthy (relatively), and able to function for the most part. I do have some physical reasons for the pain, but not to the extent it occurs. The pain is a physical representation of a death wish as big as Texas. I have a feeling that once I learn how to express the deep pain I feel in ALL my facets, the pain will lessen on its own. Until then, I take medications to take the edge off the physical symptoms, but not eradicate them completely...I need the pain there in order to function.

 

[Freida]

My ptsd led to me developing fibromyalgia and there are several studies out there now connecting ptsd to chronic pain thru body memories. Meaning that your body holds on to the pain it experinced during the trauma, and it can only be released as the trauma is released. Which sucks. sigh.