I hope this better situation lasts or better still, improves further chex. Good news
Do you think that now you have maybe a better handle on what sets the pain off you are managing those things better? Stupid question really I mean who wouldn't!
It may also have something to do with the way the brain works with pain signals too. This is where all of the 'newer' pain management stuff is coming from these days too
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDx-Ade ... -Moseley-W http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=4b8oB757DKc&gl=US
I love the first vid
for someone SO clever, he is so funny.
I am in no way saying that you haven't got a nerve issue, we all have here. However,you can apply Lorrimers 'danger on the outside of your left leg on the skin. . . . .mate' (you need to watch the vid of course) to all pain signals.
The fact that you have had these same pains for a while, has very probably allowed your brain to process the pain signals as non life threatening now. You have been here so many times before and haven't been close to a really dangerous situation in a fight or flight response because of this pain, so it dampens those pain signals down. This calming down of how your brain is reacting to the pain signals and your own better coping and lifestyle management strategies, may be combining to make things easier. You are obviously not someone who is susceptible to allowing those pain signals to
increase as can very often be the case.
Our problem isn't the same as tissue damage that must get better within 3-6 months, as the nerve tissue is involved now and if the problem is actual entrapment, the brain can't miraculously dissolve any scar tissue or ligament or whatever is causing this problem. I would LOVE someone to make a vid to explain that one.
I think all the brain can do in our cases until the nerve issue is sorted is help turn the volume down. Thankfully you seem to have managed this
This would be true of PN from tight pelvic floor muscles as well as actual PNE.
With all of this 'newer' cognitive pain approach, everyone should have access to a multi disciplined approach to treatments, although I would still maintain that it would be the muscle tension release from good physiotherapy that will actually 'cure' a tight pelvic floor PN sufferer for instance, but cognitive therapies will definitely help along the way.
Take care,
Helen
