What exactly is nerve pain and what causes it ? Will it ever go away
10/25/08 9:15pm
Nerve pain is a kind of broad term that refers to pain that generally follows the path of a nerve and is the result of nerve damage. Lots of different factors can cause a nerve to elicit pain; they can be compressed by some sort of wound or trauma or inflammation in the area, nerve pain can occur as a result of surgery; infections such as shingles can cause nerves to flare up (very painful!), in diabetes poor blood flows to the nerves can cause them to become activated.
Nerve pain is often sharp and stabbing and burning but nerve damage can also simply cause numbness and hot and cold sensations.
How long it will last depends on its cause. If nerve pain is due to inflammation it should subside when the inflammation does; if its due to an infection it usually (but not always) subside when the body finally fights off the infection. If its due to diabetes then keeping the diabetes under control will obviously help.
Nerve damage/pain can be difficult to treat, however. You can find more out about peripheral neuropathy here.
Good luck!
10/25/08 7:08pm
Nerve pain is generally a burning sensation.Can be caused by an injury if it is damaged.Mine is caused by Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy which is a misfiring of the sympathetic nerve.I think it depends on the type of nerve pain whether your physician can do surgery or nerve blocks to help with the pain.
10/30/08 9:43am
Ir is pain that has its origin in malfunction ot nerve system, either peropheric o central. That cause might be an inflammation of peripheral nerves o spinal roots as well as failure of pain regulation in teh CNS - e.g. fibromyalgia. Other common cause are metabolic diseases like DM causing diabetic neuropathy and angiopathy. Generaly said, the nerve pain is that one where there is no o minimal damage in the tissue except the nerve system.
1/16/10 6:54am
Hi,
you can read this work about fibromyalgia where I incorporated the magnetic field as well:
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijaam/vol1n1/balneo.xml
Other source a little bit old but still valid is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Magnetic-Therapy-in-Eastern-Europe-:-Jiri-Jerabek-%28Paperback,-1998%29_W0QQitemZ341357157161QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20100110?IMSfp=TL100110238007r34918
and:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8047671
The device I have used can be seen in:
www.magnetotherapy.com
Sincerely, JJ
10/30/08 10:07am
Nerve Pain, to me, is an unbearable source of misery.What causes it, I believe, is the brain sending signals, (nerve impulses), via the spinal cord and peripheral nerves, to areas of the body that are in distress due to any number of reasons. My nerve pain was caused by an injury in which I tore my rectus abdominus muscles and nerves off of my ribcage. The pain I feel is a sharp stabbing pain right in the middle of my chest, which radiates around my side to my spine. My entire left upper quadrant is effected. Will it ever go away? Not in my case. I was on massive doses of narcotics, have had every form of treatment available,unsuccessfully. Then finally I had a 3rd Spinal Cord Stimulator implanted, which was extremely successful. This implanted device was made by Boston Scientific, unlike my previous two, that were made by Medtronics. The new implant works so much better than the previous ones that I was able to take myself off all of the narcotics that I had been dependant on for almost 10 years. The unit acts as a substitute for the pain impulses that are sent from my brain. When I have the unit turned on, I feel a tingling sensation instead of the pain where my injury sites are. It is only a masking of the pain signals. But it feels soooo good as opposed to my typical sharp stabbing pain that I normally feel. This unit is rechargeable, and I can use it whenever I want to. But the battery in the implanted unit will run out someday, an average of 7-10 years depending on how much I use it. When the day comes when I try and turn the unit on and it doesn't work anymore, then I'll have to go back on meds until I either have another unit implanted, or some other device may have come out by then which will be more effective. Until that day comes, I can omly hope that this unit will work as well as it has been working for me since it was inplanted. I'll deal with it when it comes. Until then, I am enjoying not being dependant on medications and take one day at a time.
10/30/08 7:19pm
Nerve pain is caused when the sheath that is the exterior covering around the nerve disintagrates and leaves the nerve open and bare in the body. Many times the lack of vitamin B-12 causes the sheath disolves and leaves the nerve raw. In this case you will have to give yourself vitamin B-12 shots in order to cause the sheath to repair itself. Pill won't work becasue, they are not strong enough and don't stay in the body log enough to do what is needed to regrow the sheath.
10/30/08 8:13pm
Nerve pain is one of the most horrific pains that can inflict the body. Because our nerves are related to feeling, when a nerve is damaged any pain related to that damaged nerve is going to be 100 times worse than any other pain that you ever go through. Nerve pain has many symptoms; burning, throbbing, steady unending and unbearable pain, electric-like, or lightening-strike pain which seems to come from anywhere and nowhere at the same time, hit a place along your nerve path and strike it like lightening from the sky during a horrible thunderstorm. Only you can't hide from it because it's your very own damaged nerve that is attacking you.
Some nerve pain gets better with time, but if you are unlucky you may have a nerve injury that can not be healed and you will have to live with it for the rest of your life. My sciatic nerve was damaged, right in the buttock over 13 years ago now, and I have been in the most horrible pain, non-stop since the day it happened. No amount of narcotics helps it and by now I have been on very large doses of morphine for 13 years and my doctors will not raise the amount given so I really just take them to keep my body from going into withdrawal. Don't get me wrong now, they help take the edge off, but that is all. I can not sit on my butt because it increases the pain, standing increases the pain, exercise increases the pain and being absolutely still is excruciating. My life is unbearable and I can't take extra meds cause if I do I will run out before my next refill which I have to get from my doctor each month and if I run out, they won't give a new prescription, you will instead be sent to the hospital to keep from going into seizures and having a heart attack. You also will be labled a drug addict if you take more than is prescribed, it doesn't matter that your pain is not being controlled, it only matters that YOU are being controlled by the very people who are supposed to help you, but don't.
Sorry if I sound bitter, but walk in my shoes and you will understand that everything is bitter when it's hard to swallow what they tell me each month which is, "weelllll, you are on large doses, let's see how you get by next month...okay? then a shrug of the shoulders and out he goes!" Yep, that's hard to swallow when you want to be on the floor screaming from the intense pain that everybody ignores because they don't feel it.
Sorry. But thanks for listening. That's what nerve pain is for me.
ladytiye
12/ 1/09 8:32pm
Wow- that is the best description of nerve pain I have ever heard. I have suffered from nerve pain for the past 15 years and I am only 30 and it will never go away. Thank you for your definition- I have never heard this type of pain described better. I can relate to your pain and am always here if you need to talk.
12/24/09 9:34pm
hi rebecca i am going through some kind of nerve pain due to some procedure called evlt that i did for varicose veins it was like a laser that closed some veins for my ciculation to be better on my leg now i dont know if this nerve damage is permanent or i am going to be like this forever...
12/24/09 9:36pm
i would like to know what kind of nerve pain you are experiencing......you were kind of young when you started with your nerve pain and what types of medicines are you on...............
10/ 7/11 6:29am
Hi
My mother had the ELVT procedure and she is 6 months out and still in pain.
Did you recover?
2/ 9/10 11:51pm
In your paragraph above you state that you can relate to rebecca's pain. You don't explain what kind of nerve pain you have. What caused you to have nerve pain? I too experience chronic pain daily from two back surgeries 2 years ago. I always thought it would be nice to talk to people that I could relate too. Talking to people that are not in pain is very difficult sometimes. When people see me they say, you look good, therefore they don't understand the degree of pain that we go through from day to day. I would really like to talk some more about this.
5/ 6/10 9:26am
My name is Robert and i am only 25 and suffer nerve pain down both of my legs. Its a burning stabbing numbing sensation and there is nothing i can do to take it away. I ve tried everything from warm baths to narcotiv drugs. The drugs work to a certain degree but dont take it away. This pain is by far the worst pain ive ever felt in my life and it incapacitates me where i cant wallk sometimes. It akso affedts my everyday life. Im only 25 and i cant run or do any phisical activities and on top of all this my joint are bad. I dont want tio be in a wheel chair when im 30. Does anyone know if there is anything i can do about this to help make life bearable so i casn live again.
2/ 9/10 11:45pm
I would really like to talk with you some more. I too, am experiencing painful nerve pain. I had two back surgeries a little over 2 years ago and I have nerve pain constantly so I quite understand what you are going through and what you are feeling. Most people don't get it, if they have never experienced the degree of pain that I and you have had they can't possibly know. Most people don't know how to handle someone in pain. Please I would love to talk to you. I have longed to talk to similar people like me but am having trouble finding people to talk to.
3/ 4/10 1:44pm
Hello, nice to meet you, I have been in pain everyday for one year from nerve pain from a botched root canal. It is off and on all day, mostly on but it is burning, aching, twinging pain. What are you taking for your nerve pain?
I am on Tegretol but may change to Trilipital (sp). I do not know if it is getting better or if I am just tolerating it more now. I also take a lot of vitamin supplements which I think helps but who knows.
Everytime I talk about my pain I cry and I am trying to raise my daughter on my own it is so hard being in this kind of burning boring pain!
At least I can usually sleep during the night as my brain is in sleep mode but in the morning it starts all over again. I am working in pain and just want it to go away, I want my life back and I know you feel the same way. Will this ever go away, It has to, I will try anything and have tried a lot of different things and had very test imaginable. Please write back if you can. Better days have to be coming!
10/30/08 10:58pm
I live with nerve damage in my face from having teeth pulled. It is a horrible pain. When it hits, I would rather be dead, then to feel it. Right now I am on 2 different types of seizure medication which helps alot. They control the pain, but my face still goes numb sometimes and my eye burns when the neuralgia is actting up..A small price to pay for the controlling of the pain. The neuralgia I have in my face is the worst type of pain you can have, and believe me it is true...I would not wish it on my worst enemy...Now my Dr. told me that seizure medication has been found to be very successful in treating nerve pain, also called neuralgia, and maybe you might want to bring that up on your next visit.
9/18/09 3:12pm
Nerve pain which causes the face to become numb, sensations of burning in the eyes, and facial pain is most commonly due to Trigeminal Neuralgia. The trigeminal nerve controls three areas of the body, in the face/jaw/neck, eyes, forehead/head/scalp. There are several treatments. Some doctors begin with medications to calm the nerve path, but if this doesn't work there are several surgical and non-invasive "surgical" treatments which work in great percentages of sufferers.
11/ 1/08 3:20am
Chronic,permanent ,nerve damage -"nerve pain"-is living hell-except that you are here,no-one understands it(people don't "see" an injury-to them it doesn't exist),life as you knew it went away-you HAVE no life.
3/16/12 5:47pm
has anyone got nerve damage from iud insertion
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Hello ,
Very interested by your work and way of thinking. I am a therapist in the field of Psychotraumatism and utilize , Hypnosis and Somatic Experiencing to get ride of pain. That works pretty good, but I know that you are working with certain kind of magnetic devices. How that works actually with pain and diseases?
SH