I am a well read person but have horrible computer skills. Would someone put up a link to this study for me please?
I am going to explain this poorly but here’s the gist and why it’s important.
Here is “proof” the pain you feel is real.
They show very clearly the pain receptors in your brain going off like Christmas lights.
They explain where this is happening in your brain.
They cover the reptilian part of your brain that literally tells you, "how bad this hurts, how much discomfort I am going to make you feel because of it."
It explains one more area in the brain that actually discusses how you will emotionally react to the pain and why it’s different from everybody else.
This is, in my opinion, the MOST misunderstood part of fibro.
I smash my finger, I hop around and go ow wow owwwww for two minutes.
My brain flashes a thumping red.
You do some mundain task like standing or showering…
And you have the forth of July torching up multiple pain receptors in your brain
That goes on and on.
They can see this with brain imaging.
It’s real.
It is different pain because your brain is telling you how to feel and how much it hurts.
I was turned on to this study because of my daughters autism…I was very interested in the flight or fight aspect of the brain.
This is generated in the same area as some fibro pain.
She is non verbal so it’s hard for her to communicate or understand.
Lol, and she is only five years old this month.
So I had to learn how to understand her actions.
She can’t always filter whats happening so will act on it.
Her central nervous system simply can’t tolerate what going on.
So when you hurt, in a roundabout similar way, you also can not tolerate whatever it is
That is happening.
Keeping depression in check, talk therapy, and staying on top of your moods is an excellent way to help your brain filter some of these responses.
This is just such a great study.
Please read it and take from it what you can.
Thanks for reading!!
Is this the right study, Tiffany? the one with the mice?
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/february/biox-numb-pain-021914.html
No that’s a different one. I’ll see if I can find a web address…lol…I’m sorry I am not very computer savy!!
how about this one. The only study I could find was on the effects of low-dose Naltexone in Fibromyagia patients
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891387/#!po=42.3077
Blahhhh…I’m still looking for it. It has a little video that’s easy to understand."…I can remember a lot of what I read…except the address…I’m so sorry I will look until I find it
I’m getting closer! The video is on utube…I gada find the name of it
I think it’s called an update on fibromyalgia…I am trying to run the video so I can double check but it’s not working. Our internet has been wonky since the last blizzard. We lost power for 14 hours. I will keep trying to run the darn video so I can see. So very sorry about this!
Limbic emotional thoughts…yes that’s the one! Go utube it to
An update on fibromyalgia
I’m going to blame my brain fart on the second pot of coffee.
Watch the video!!
Thank you for looking and helping me find it!
Poor Tiffany! I know how frustrating it is to know - in a way - what you want, but not be able to find it.. And you look and look and look. Glad you found it!
Did you get a chance to listen to it?
Thanks Tiffany for explaining in your own words. That is often better than reading a much longer study. What you wrote makes perfect sense to me.
By the way, Tiffany, many of us are not computer savvy either.
It’s a utube video presentation called…
An update on fibromialgia
Can you make a new post with a link to it for everyone?
I dot think anyone saw it, I typed it in after I found it in my old post.
So a new post with the link would be better.
Thank you for helping!
I don't know where to post this to forum on this strange symptom I'm having. I don't know if it falls under the category "brain fog" or what?
I sometimes hear people talking to me and I can't make sense of what they're saying. I mean I hear words, but can't seem to discern what the words mean when put in order! I usually become terrified and wonder if I'm having a stroke? Or TIA? but I do a systems check and vision, sensory and motor are all normal. Then it passes. It's happened several times so far.
Has anyone else had this sort of occurance?
Thank you!!