Here we go again PAIN being all in your head

[BugSick]

I am so tired of patients being told by doctors that because they don't understand what is happening to the patient OR NOT listening to the patient OR NOT having the proper testing done OR NOT researching the cause of something.....that they scape goat their diagnosis to this ridiculous

It is all in the patients head........people ARE NOT STUPID about their own bodies.....when were doctors told they knew better.....for this attitude is not solving anything medically and why we are in the shape we are in right now.....

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Increased colon pain in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) appears to be related more to "a psychological tendency to report pain," rather than to actual increased neurosensory sensitivity, investigators report.

"The implications of this finding are far reaching," Dr. William E. Whitehead of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and colleagues write in the medical journal Gut.

The findings underscore the importance considering psychological factors before interpreting sensory function, they say. The results also highlight the importance of centrally mediated processes in visceral sensitivity experienced by IBS patients and suggest that novel therapies for pain in IBS should target centrally mediated mechanisms."

In the study, 121 IBS patients and 28 healthy controls underwent balloon distensions in the descending colon to assess pain and urge thresholds. Subjects also underwent a battery of tests designed to separate physiological from psychological components of perception.

The results indicated that IBS patients, compared with controls, had significantly lower pain thresholds than controls, but similar neurosensory sensitivity patients also had a greater tendency to report pain.

The findings also showed that pain thresholds did not correlate with neurosensory sensitivity, Whitehead and his associates report, but were strongly correlated with the overall tendency to report pain.

Similar results were seen for the non-painful sensation of urgency.

These data, Whitehead and colleagues conclude, indicate that physiological contributions to increased colonic pain sensitivity in IBS patients are relatively small compared to cognitive and psychological influences.

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I am tired of the medical community blamming all this disease and suffering on

an aging population
an increase in population
it is all in the patients head


These to me spell THEY DON'T KNOW and DON'T WANT TO KNOW attitude to me