Re:Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain?
by imustbeevil on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:56PM
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Chronic pain isn't a condition, it's a symptom. That's why proper diagnosis is the solution, because the million different "chronic pains" you can have will be treated a million different ways, and you either need to know which one or try them all and risk the side effects, as they did in the GP's comment.
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Re:Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain?
by proverbialbunny on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:46PM
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It's not just chronic pain. There are multiple kinds of depression, multiple kinds of anxiety, multiple kinds of autism, adhd, and so on.
As long as the medical industry, especially the psychological industry, continues to name diagnoses off of their symptoms instead of naming them what they actually are, it becomes difficult to create procedures and medicine that work for all people.