ABSTRACT
Chronic pain is being mismanaged universally. Impatient surgeons try unsuccessfully to excise the pain. Internists load the patient with narcotics and depressing tranquilizers. Chiropractors try to cure everything with their fingers. Acupuncturists shoot darts at the patients. The inevitable failure in control of pain is compounded by the hostile attitude of the impatient healer. The victim suffers from magnified pain due to the side effects of "treatment". The physician considers the patient crazy and relegates the pain management to the psychiatrist who is not trained in the management of pain. In contrast to somesthetic pain, sympathetic pain terminates in the limbic system. It can be more severe than the pain of cancer. It can be fatal: heart attack or suicide is more common among these patients than the rest of the population. It causes tremor, blepharospasm, flexion deformity, vasoconstriction, and severe vascular migraine headache.
