I think the diagnosis of chronic pain, per the medical criteria, is pain lasting six weeks. I didn't just google it. I'm recalling the definition from reading over many years about it.
The meager definition leaves a great deal to be desired in support of the pain patient whose pain is lifelong. Surely, the medical bureaucrats and academics and rule-making organizations could and should do a better job of categorizing patients.
Over years I have thought of my broken body parts--structural parts of the body--discs, bones, and nerves in endless possible scenarios.
I often think of an insect that one steps on. Maybe you hear a cracking sound but the insect escapes. It is certainly broken in some manner but gets away from you before you can finish it off. THEN I liken my body to the sturdy insect. I was stepped on, in a manner of speaking, and have had to persevere in living with my broken structural parts. These parts cannot be truly fixed and returned to 'factory condition.'
It has been a strong and depressing struggle with doctors, insurance barriers, referrals & prior authorizations to obtain treatments and injections, prescriptions & surgeries, support braces and official recognition of disabilities. Conservatively, the past fifteen years of my life have been dominated by these health matters.
Why is this the norm?
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