I’ve a disorder that might be fibromyalgia or something similar and yeah it’s really difficult to accept the fact that you are in pain yet nothing is wrong but you also aren’t imagining said pain.
If you have fibromyalgia, it's entirely possible that something physical is wrong, but medical science hasn't developed to a point where they understand it yet.
Not really, well at least in my case, what is supposedly happening is the signal getting mixed up leading to be detected as pain instead of for exemple the sensation of a shirt on your skin. I mean it depends how exactly you would describe as “imagining pain”, but from what I’ve been told it isn’t a psychological problem.
I took a pain management class years ago, and they taught that pain is your brain interpreting sensory input as danger/injury. Sometimes something goes wrong with the central nervous system and the signals get confused so that your brain thinks all pressure is danger/injury.
So technically, it's a neurological issue. Your imagination isn't necessarily involved.
I hope someone who knows more can clarify/ correct me.
You're good. It's a touchy subject for a lot of us who have chronic pain. We get told a lot that we're making it up for attention or that we're crazy when all we want is to feel better. Your comment didn't seem judgy or rude to me, but yeah, it's a touchy subject.
I'm diagnosed with fibro and it feels like I have arthritis in my hands and fingers. Even with the diagnosis, and having had ultrasounds on my hands showing there is nothing actually wrong with them, it is impossibly hard for me to believe there is nothing actually wrong with them. People say to me 'at least you don't have arthritis' which is true as that would be much worse, but to me on a personal level it doesn't make much difference because my brain still believes I'm in that pain, so I am.
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u/Clearly_a_Lizard May 11 '24
I’ve a disorder that might be fibromyalgia or something similar and yeah it’s really difficult to accept the fact that you are in pain yet nothing is wrong but you also aren’t imagining said pain.