How painful is the most painful disease in the world? Clinically, these 6 kinds of 'pain' have been experienced by Superman

According to the 2017 Global Pain Index Report, 91% of Chinese people experience physical pain , and 34% of them experience physical pain every week, usually in the neck (17%), shoulders (15%) and lower back (14%). %). As early as 2000, the World Health Organization proposed that "chronic pain is a kind of disease", and in China, the number of chronic pain patients has exceeded 300 million.

When feeling pain, most people choose to endure it, or feel that pain is not a disease, and even seeking a doctor cannot solve it. In fact, some pains are really unbearable, unimaginable, and cannot be solved by bearing.

1. Why do people suffer from pain?

Modern medicine regards pain as a complex psychological activity, which belongs to a subjective feeling of people, and the feeling varies from person to person. Some people scream when they are pricked by a needle, and some people bleed on the battlefield without making a sound. Pain is actually produced through the receptors on the nerve endings. When the receptors are stimulated, they will be transmitted to the brain through the spine to generate pain.

In addition to feeling pain, humans also have an anti-pain system. This system will send out pain-inhibiting signals through the nerves, and the body fluids will secrete substances such as endorphins and dynorphins to help people relieve pain.

Mild Pain: Pain is present but tolerable, life is normal and sleep is not disturbed.

Moderate pain: The pain is obvious and unbearable, requiring analgesic drugs, and sleep is disturbed.

Severe pain: the pain is severe and unbearable, and analgesic drugs are needed, and sleep is seriously disturbed, which may be accompanied by autonomic dysfunction or passive posture.

2. These types of pain, experienced is a superman

Pain is an obvious symptom that prompts us to discover our physical condition. Some pains cannot be overcome by "endurance". Only after experiencing these pains can we know what "health is the most important".

1. Kidney stones

Kidney stones are a manifestation of abnormal mineralization in the human body. When the salt and diuretic in the urine accumulate and harden, they will become stones. The stone flows with the blood, causing spasm of the renal pelvis and ureter, and the patient will feel pain starting from the waist, radiating to the lower abdomen and perineum , accompanied by symptoms such as sweating, nausea, and vomiting.

For stones with a diameter of less than 6mm and a smooth surface, they can be excreted through urine by drinking a lot of water, doing exercises such as skipping rope. If the stones are too large, it is recommended that extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy be the first choice for treatment. For stones larger than 2 cm, minimally invasive surgery is recommended for removal.

2. Trigeminal neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia is caused by small blood vessels compressing the nerves, causing nerve dysfunction, resulting in sudden facial pain, which many people mistake for toothache.

During the attack, the patient will feel tingling pain, throbbing pain, electric shock-like pain, knife-like pain, tear-like pain , and severe pain may affect speaking, eating, washing face, brushing teeth, etc.

3. Herpes zoster neuralgia

Shingles is a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus that infects the human body and involves the skin and nerves. Generally, there will be band-shaped clusters of blisters on one side of the body, such as the chest, abdomen, and waist, and accompanied by pain. Even after the cure, the pain will continue, that is, postherpetic neuralgia.

This kind of pain does not require any stimulation, like burning the skin with a fire, or cutting the skin with a knife. In severe cases, even if the skin touches the sheets or clothing, it will induce pain , and you will also feel numbness and ants in the affected area. .

4. Gout

Gout is a crystal-associated arthropathy caused by the deposition of monosodium urate, which causes severe pain in the joints due to the deposition of uric acid in the joints.

For chronic gout, the pain is mild and lasts for a short time, and the joints will have symptoms such as redness, swelling, and fever; for acute gout, the pain is very severe, showing tearing, cutting, and biting, and the pain can last for 12 hours .

5. Cancer pain

Because the tumor or tumor metastases invade and compress the nerves of other organs, or during the treatment process, surgery and chemotherapy cause damage to the body, it will cause body pain.

Cancer pain brings physical and mental disabilities to patients and their families . For patients, it is equivalent to experiencing the pain of purgatory. Difficulty in eating affects sleep and mood. Even taking painkillers, it cannot be completely suppressed. Accelerated cancer progression seriously affects the quality of life.

6. Childbirth

Medically, pain is divided into 10 levels, and childbirth is the highest level. This kind of pain does not pass in seconds, and often lasts for more than ten hours, or even a day or two. Specifically, the mother's natural delivery process includes: the first, second, and third stages of labor.

The first stage of labor , the period of dilation of the cervix, usually takes 12 hours for primiparas, and pregnant mothers will experience uterine contractions about every 10 minutes;

In the second stage of labor , the cervix is ​​fully dilated until the fetus is completely delivered. The baby has to be forced out of the vagina. One can imagine how severe the pain is;

In the third stage of labor , after the fetus is delivered, the placenta is delivered. At this time, the mother can successfully deliver the placenta by exerting force again, and the pain is slightly weakened.

In 2017, there was a pregnant woman in Shaanxi who lost control of her emotions due to unbearable pain. She fell from the sky and died... One can imagine how great every mother is.

3. Pain is a disease, don’t bear it

Long-term pain will cause a series of pathophysiological changes, affect people's emotional and mental health, and even lead to sympathetic nerve dysfunction. However, pain can also be divided into "good pain" and "bad pain". Good pain is an alarm signal of the human body, which indicates the onset of a certain disease, and bad pain is chronic and intractable pain, which often recurs and is difficult to relieve.

If the pain exceeds your ability to adjust, you need to seek professional labor pain treatment. In addition to taking medicine for pain relief, go to the pain department for treatment if necessary.

At present, the mainstream pain treatment is mainly minimally invasive treatment, which is suitable for various chronic pains. In addition, analgesic methods also include ozone therapy, radiofrequency neuromodulation, damage, low-temperature plasma intervertebral disc ablation, spinal cord stimulation, transforaminal endoscopic technology, etc. Through effective treatment, the pain has been greatly improved, described by the patient as "from Hell to heaven", so bite the bullet and seek professional help.

Tolerance to pain may delay the best time for diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. Timely treatment is the best way to solve pain.

References:

[1] "Pain is a distress signal, don't bear these pains anymore!" ". The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. 2020-10-16

[2] "World Pain Relief Day | What are the most painful diseases in the world? I hope you don't meet any of them." China Medical News. 2021-10-11

[3] "The boy experienced small intestinal necrosis due to childbirth pain, how painful is childbirth pain?" ". Medical Obstetrics and Gynecology Channel. 2022-05-09

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