Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
by internet_user on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @02:09PM
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That's because most cases of fibro is undiagnosed small fiber neuropathy.
Nothing to do with psychology, and everything to do with destruction of peripheral nerve tissue.
It is not true about chronic pain. Acute pain will get better if you rest, chronic pain won't.
Most chronic pain sufferers will feel better if they behave as if the pain doesn't exist, increase their activities, get less depressed, feel less pain...
The core of fibro identity, however, is that fibros don't experience the benefits of exercise, they get the pain but they don't get the gain. That might be true. I have seen fibros try something new and get hurt even more quickly than heroin adicts.