According to the Neuropathic Pain Network, somewhere between five to twenty-three million people (that’s between 2 to 8 percent of our population) are living with neuropathic pain in the United States. Unfortunately, it is a syndrome that is often under-diagnosed and under-treated.
Some of the symptoms of neuropathic pain including shooting pain, burning pain, tingling, and numbness. An example of neuropathic allodynia—a non-harmful stimulus perceived as painful—is rough clothing rubbing on your skin which you feel as if it were sandpaper; another example would be someone shaking your hand in what is really a gentle grasp but you feel it as crushing or excruciating.
Another striking example of neuropathic pain is called phantom limb syndrome. This occurs when a limb like an arm or a leg has been removed because of illness or injury. The brain still receives (or perceives) pain messages from the nerves that originally carried impulses from the missing limb. These nerves now misfire and cause pain.
As anyone living with neuropathic pain knows the treatment can be frustrating and often ineffective. While acute short-term pain is usually easy to manage and most chronic pain management conditions can be treated effectively, neuropathic pain can be a major treatment challenge for both patients and their healthcare providers. Unfortunately, neuropathic pain often responds poorly to standard pain treatments and occasionally may get worse instead of better over time. For some people, it can lead to serious disability.
The capsaicin patch could be a much needed tool for many people experiencing neuropathic pain symptoms and find that other pain management medications (e.g., opiates or SSRI’s and SNRI’s) are not helping or have too many side effects. Of course medication management is only one component of an effective pain management treatment plan.
I believe that people also need to be developing nonpharmacological interventions as well as learning to better manage the psychological/emotional components of their pain. For those symptoms cognitive behavioral and rational emotive therapeutic interventions give the best outcomes.
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