The Pain Scale Is Useless and Everybody Knows It

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very similar to you.

Firstly, that sounds like a long and painful journey.

But I'm glad that you've managed to sort things out because pain is, I say this only anecdotally, but pain changes your brain.

I think it changes how you think about things.

It certainly changes what you do and don't do in your life and the actions that you take.

But I've come to the conclusion that pain really, you know, it changes how you think a

Oh, it does.

There's actually like some research about how chronic pain and especially chronic pelvic pain and inflammation like you get with endometriosis and a lot of other conditions that cause severe period pain.

There is a lot of rewiring your neural pathways and there is a lot of.

sensitization.

We think more pain makes us more tolerant to pain, but often more pain, especially unaddressed pain and chronic pain, leads to your body actually being more sensitive to stimulus where something that might not have hurt before now suddenly hurts.

We still don't know that much about it, but it definitely changes our relationship to pain.

And it also seems to change our relationship to anxiety and depression.

Yeah.

So let's talk about pain.

And I think what what we're both fascinated by is, yes, pain generally and pain in women generally.

But the language around pain, I think, is just so fascinating.

Yeah.

Shocker.

Two podcasters are interested in the language of something.

Yeah.

The first time I heard this line.

I was really shocked.

So a couple of years ago, I talked to a woman called Gabrielle Jackson.

So

very similar to you.

Firstly, that sounds like a long and painful journey.

But I'm glad that you've managed to sort things out because pain is, I say this only anecdotally, but pain changes your brain.

I think it changes how you think about things.

It certainly changes what you do and don't do in your life and the actions that you take.

But I've come to the conclusion that pain really, you know, it changes how you think a

Oh, it does.

There's actually like some research about how chronic pain and especially chronic pelvic pain and inflammation like you get with endometriosis and a lot of other conditions that cause severe period pain.

There is a lot of rewiring your neural pathways and there is a lot of.

sensitization.

We think more pain makes us more tolerant to pain, but often more pain, especially unaddressed pain and chronic pain, leads to your body actually being more sensitive to stimulus where something that might not have hurt before now suddenly hurts.

We still don't know that much about it, but it definitely changes our relationship to pain.

And it also seems to change our relationship to anxiety and depression.

Yeah.

So let's talk about pain.

And I think what what we're both fascinated by is, yes, pain generally and pain in women generally.

But the language around pain, I think, is just so fascinating.

Yeah.

Shocker.

Two podcasters are interested in the language of something.

Yeah.

The first time I heard this line.

I was really shocked.

So a couple of years ago, I talked to a woman called Gabrielle Jackson.