Chronic Pelvic Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment
Your health care practitioner should also talk to you about nonmedical options, such as counseling to help you better cope with chronic pain, physical therapy and a referral to a pain management clinic. Often, you will need a multifaceted approach to your pain involving medicine, counseling and behavioral changes. And, as with anything so complex, you will need to give your health care team time to find the right options for you.
The most important thing, however, is that you don't let anyone minimize your pain. Even if no organic reason for the pain can be found, it is still very real. Just think about people who have a limb amputated and still feel pain in the missing limb. This occurs because chronic pain rewires your brain so you misinterpret normal sensations as painful.
But you are not crazy, and there are solutions for your pain—even pain that can't be seen.
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