depression anxiety and neuro pain .

[adi chicago]

does depression,anxiety increase the neuro pain?

[crppled007]

ii believe it does, pain can be brought on mentally. my experiance with nerve pain is when i sleep real good the next day my anxiety is down as is my pain. one affects the other

[adi chicago]

i will try and focus to ignore pain but i will never forget .

[Broknwing]

ABSOLUTELY!!! No doubt about it! Also the more active you are, the less pain you have.....You REALLY need to get yourself more active, your pain will lessen quite a bit...

[metronycguy]

ABSOLUTELY!!! No doubt about it! Also the more active you are, the less pain you have.....You REALLY need to get yourself more active, your pain will lessen quite a bit...

or the opposite can happen more active = more pain.
if you have meds to manage it , i rather go with the the more active= more pain +meds to fix.
i am mentally better with more activity

[adi chicago]

the pain is kiliing me ...........i must smile.usa justice and ab around .i was ab and i know the diffr.regarding pain and medication.sci and neuro pain....never ever to humans.

[crppled007]

How long have you been injured Adi & what level?

[orangejello]

For me there is a definite connection between my pain levels and my mental health. I am fortunate that I don't suffer from pain anywhere near what some people on here do. But my physical pain seems to be increasing considerably the longer I am post-injury :(.

I think the pain does increase my depression and anxiety. But I also think that being depressed or overly anxious makes it harder for me to cope with the pain, which makes the pain seem worse and causes further depression. It is a vicious cycle.

[JAYCUE]

I think anxiety increases neuro pain more than anything. If you constantly think about it, it hurts more. Sometimes when I read about peoples stomach cramps, I feel mine cramping up but I think it's in my head. Depression doesn't help either. Doesn't xanax help anxiety?

[crppled007]

Doesn't xanax help anxiety?


Yes Xanax is made for anxiety. I take Xanax once a day at bedtime. It really settles down your nerves more than Valium. It may be different for everybody, but in my case, It works great on my spasms:D it also helps with my nerve pain. A lot of doctors don't like prescribing it, but I'm glad mine did. I have been taking it for better part of 10 years. Out of all the pills that I take, I call Xanax the wonder drug, because it works for everything.

But that's just me!

[GoBig]

Please allow me to vent. I have had CNS pain for five years. That is also how long my life has been extended and will continue to go on. I understand your frustration because I have gone through many attempts at reduction for pain. The cure for our pain is elusive. Please change your life. It is your choice to work with it or check out. I am not going to allow negative thoughts to control my life or the lives of the people around me.

[firesmurf]

i can tell you,just from my experience with clinical depression and a reoccurance of that possibly? but this time around add all the crap that comes along with the spinal cord injury,and having everything that once gave me any real joy or feeling like i was contributing to my familys life and my community and just being a functional member of society and the once clinical has turned into severe recurrant depression.

i know i am feeling more pain on days when my depression is higher,or it could be the opposite too.i really cannot say for sure what actually triggers what really.but i do know when i try and just think of everything i have wrong and then all my son has wrong medically,it gets to be way too much to handle and it practically shuts me down mentally.i cannot actually really function at all mentally.its like i go on auto pilot or something and only the very very basics will get done or accomplished that particular day or two day stretch,whatever that plays out to be.but my pain seems to be more acute these days than on others.i personally think the two actually tend to kind of 'play" off each other.the depression/pain and the pain/depression cycles,you know what i mean?they just feed off each other and make each of them worse.but i DO know that with me anyways,they do make each other worse,most definitely.and then i will snap out of it and be good for a while and then get hit again ,usually when i am given yet another bizarre Dx or my sons problems flare up again.it just hits so much harder now.

once i can think my way thru things and put things back into some sort of perspective again,things get better,both pain and depression.but the pain is always there.and also at some level the depression,it just has ups and downs for me.

i too try not to think in negative terms but honestly,some days can be pretty overwhelming.but then i think about people like alan(you ARE my hero big guy)and my really great friend who just died last year,only 46 years old who lost her battle with ALS,and i think ,hey,things could always be much much worse than i have them right now.it really does help to keep me on track when i start to feel sorry for myself.no matter how bad you think you have things,honestly,they could always get much worse than they are right now.some days that doesn't actually seem possible but it can,for all of us really.ya just gotta keep hangin in there i guess.Marcia