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By Erica Jacques, About.com Guide to Chronic Pain

Nerve Pain

Wednesday October 28, 2009

Chronic nerve pain, or neuropathic pain, affects millions of people. Unlike somatic pain, which is detected by nociceptors (pain receptor nerves), neuropathic pain is often caused by damage to or dysfunction in sensory nerves. Neuropathic pain can be caused by a number of conditions, such as diabetes. Nerves can also be damaged during a surgery, causing postoperative nerve pain. Sometimes, nerve tissues even thicken, causing a bundle which may become irritated. This is called a neuroma.

Treating chronic nerve pain often requires a different approach than pain caused by muscular or joint problems. While conventional medications may control some pain symptoms, nerve pain is often best treated with adjuvant analgesics such as anticonvulsants or antidepressants.

Do you have chronic nerve pain? What treatments did or did not work for you?

Comments
October 28, 2009 at 2:38 pm
(1) Jeremy Blake says:

Friend: I also suffer this disease and really painful, but based on appropriate medicines’m doing to get ahead, this medication oxycontin is good for pain but it causes anxiety and is dangerous if you can not control it, findrxonline visit a few months ago and in his article on oxycontin show that can be dangerous if not prescribed by a doctor and if one does not adequately control the sensations they produce, I really hope to have more news from you.

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