January 01, 2020 3 min read

Your body only knows how to handle being in pain for so long. Dealing with it might not take much out of you at first, but with time, it’ll wear you down like a river washing through a canyon to make a ravine.

Chronic pain has been connected to worries, depression, and brain fog. That’s because the structure of your brain changes the longer you are in pain.

Your Brain on Pain

One of your brain’s major jobs is to process pain. It connects to the rest of your nervous system and processes signals sent in from all over the body.

Your body has neurons that work as pain receptors and tells your brain when something feels bad. Some of these neurons work quickly, while others work slowly.

Those who suffer from chronic pain like back pain or fibromyalgia have pain receptors that are firing all of the time.

How Pain Changes the Brain

Your brain wasn’t meant to constantly receive pain signals. When it’s bombarded by chronic pain, these signals will literally change the structure of the brain.

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Grey Matter Decreases

Patients who deal with chronic pain also have a decrease in the amount of grey matter in their brain over time. This means that pain literally makes your brain smaller.

Less brain mass makes it difficult to think, process, and function on a normal level. Functioning at a lower level can seriously hold patients back from reaching typical life milestones and living a fulfilling lifestyle.

Decreasing grey matter is also associated with changes in the nervous system. The most heavily affected areas are those responsible for transmitting pain signals. This can lead to the brain misfiring and believing the body is in pain even when there isn’t anything causing it.

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Brain Believes it is in Pain Even When Source is Gone

When your nervous system doesn’t work the way it’s suppose to, you could be in pain even when the original source disappears. 

Nerve damage is the most common source of feeling pain when there isn’t a cause. If your pain comes on suddenly, or appears to come out of nowhere, it may not be connected to a physical cause.

Mood Goes Down

Being in constant pain requires your neurons to fire all the time. These high levels of activity break down and even deplete the neurons that carry pain signals from your body to your mind.

These changes in your brain have a huge impact on your mood. Your brain has a shortage of neurons, which disturbs your brain balance. This makes it difficult for you to feel well and can even lead to depression.

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Memory and Concentration Suffers

Being in pain all of the time has serious repercussions for your memory and concentration. One study found that pain messes with the part of the brain that retains memories and processes information.

Pain also messes with your sleep, which is a vital part of being able to remember and concentrate.

Finding ways to manage your chronic pain can help you reverse the damage chronic pain does to your brain. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars getting treatment that only helps part of the time. Natural treatments such as exercising, good nutrition, and bio-energetic relief cream can help you manage and heal your chronic pain without some of the dangerous side effects that come from more typical pain medications and treatments.

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