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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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333 points glasscannon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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nwienert ◴[04 Jul 25 13:33 UTC] No.44464404[source]▶
As someone who had years of undiagnosable pain and after many years (and more than one doctor trying to suggest it was all in my head) I just want to say to anyone reading who has it -

Don’t let yourself be gaslit that it’s all mental. It seems some do have that, but there are also many hard to diagnose and completely valid physical health conditions that cause terrible chronic pain. And don’t give up on trying to find out what they are. Once I did, I was able to largely manage mine, and more importantly, to stop constantly questioning my own sanity.

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1. glasscannon ◴[04 Jul 25 13:56 UTC] No.44464618[source]▶
Thanks for sharing this.

Very much agree it's critical to get an accurate assessment, ideally from a doctor who understands pain science to rule out a structural cause. In saying this, I recognise many practitioners are not fully across this so I'm hoping this series will help increase awareness.

This first blog is meant as a quick intro to the series - blog post #2 will break down the different categories of chronic pain (i.e. broadly including tissue, nerve damage and pain due to brain plasticity - what the series is primarily focused on).