This is very much not medical advice. Just a discussion of what I feel I've learned from my own experience treating my own pain in consultation with pain specialists for about 15 years, due to a permanent source of various types of pain (neuropathic, soft tissue, bone, and inflammatory) called Eagle syndrome, which was identified too late in life to be correctable. If you're experiencing symptoms, please seek medical care from an appropriately licensed and trained provider familiar with your specific medical history.
As a speech pathologist, my role is also to help people articulate their internal sensations and experiences so that they can get appropriate care and communicate wants, needs, and comments. And further, I treat people recovering from brain injuries. I think about and work with the implications of damaged and overheated neurological circuits often. I'm also neurodivergent, recently promoted to autism in the 2013 update to the DSM, despite being given a very specific explanation at to why I live outside of Boston. I also have a functional neurological disorder. I have been severely mismedicated at times and psychiatrists are generally loathe to admit they made a mistake. I've had some hard knocks from the lack of understanding of the psychological and developmental impact of being in continuous pain.
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