| When I was experiencing a lot of back pain, my doctor wanted to put me on antidepressants. I refused because I wasn't depressed, I was in pain. Why would he suggest that I take that kind of medication? | 5 years 51 weeks ago | 499 |
| When I was traveling in Germany I had a bad bout of muscle pain. The condition has been diagnosed as myofascial pain syndrome. I was treated with physiotherapy and an injection of something called Dysport. It really helped. Should I go back for a second treatment? | 6 years 27 weeks ago | 583 |
| When I was younger, I heard of people taking morphine and other similar drugs after they had surgery or were in a bad accident of some sort. Now my friends with problems like arthritis or back pain are taking these types of drugs. Why are they taking such strong drugs for problems like that? | 5 years 47 weeks ago | 511 |
| When my mother broke her hip, I noticed that it was hard for the nurses to find out if she was in pain since my mother can't talk. Isn't there some way that nurses can tell if patients are having pain? | 5 years 20 weeks ago | 578 |
| When my sister was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome, her doctor called it something else - reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome. Does it have two names and what are its symptoms? | 3 years 26 weeks ago | 620 |
| Whenever I go see the osteopath, she always asks me to color in on a diagram where my pain is located. I have trouble with this because it feels like it's in more than one place. I can't really put my finger on an exact spot. Am I so unusual from the average patient? Can everyone else color in these charts? | 4 years 39 weeks ago | 514 |
| Whenever my pain flairs up, I get more anxious, then I feel like the pain is worse. How can I control the anxiety and keep my pain from getting worse? | 6 years 3 weeks ago | 468 |
| Where do you go to get TENS for pain relief? And are there any disadvantages to it? | 5 years 5 days ago | 561 |
| Why do some people cope better with pain than others? I read of the term "harm avoidance," but don't we all avoid harm? | 5 years 20 weeks ago | 620 |
| Why do some people have chronic back pain and others do not? | 5 years 6 weeks ago | 561 |
| Why do some people have chronic pain and others with similar injuries or disability do not? | 5 years 20 hours ago | 536 |
| Why do we have pain? | 4 years 26 weeks ago | 535 |
| Why do women complain so much about pain compared with men? | 4 years 34 weeks ago | 576 |
| Why does my doctor want to prescribe opioids for my chronic pain? I don't want to become addicted. | 5 years 49 weeks ago | 532 |
| Why is it so hard to get people to believe you if you have chronic pain? | 5 years 20 hours ago | 574 |
| Why is it that studies often seem to contradict each other? | 4 years 26 weeks ago | 486 |
| With all this research on how we feel affecting how we feel pain, why have doctors not yet found out how to treat the pain? | 4 years 28 weeks ago | 466 |
| Yesterday I had a steroid injection into my buttocks for piriformis syndrome. I feel find today but I'm wondering if there's anything I shouldn't be doing. | 6 years 21 weeks ago | 690 |
