Study finds more people suffering from chronic pain than other common conditions



According to the CDC, 21% of adults reported living with chronic pain, which is more common than diabetes, depression and heart disease. NBC Newsโ€™ Aria Bendix reports.

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48 comments

  1. Doctors wont cure your pain. Thats how they make money. Y hooking you on pain medication

  2. Whilst also feel good releasing flowers are federally illegal!

  3. Drink lots of water and do your morning exercises and you will be straight.

  4. I believe chronic pain is caused often by stress and depression. I think this is all related to the declining mental health and hope of our society.

  5. Meh…this is part of America's curse..๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜ญ….it will get worse..

  6. Deep Fakes in Space/Failed Genome Experiments

    Deep fakes has engaged in war against the earth.

    Aliens have been skinning people white and pretending power to controls

    It's a Purple UFO that generates a fog to conceal itself as a cloud.

    .. law enforcement fakes on earth has favored aliens over people and has allowed aliens to stalk one person over their heads in their UFOs while discriminating everyone left world wide with their disgusting tradition in assisting alien abductions.

    Have you heard their reasons for allowing aliens to abduct/kidnap everyone on the planet?

    Deep fakes in space are recording deep fake videos everyday

    No it's not the end, just something better known than held to myself.

    Safety first.

    Voices are NOT street or life friendly!

    UFO with failed alien experiments descend their space craft over the state, directly over a persons head, and continuously says threats from space, to everybody.

    Aliens are threatening from space

    Experiments (that includes recycled human bodies) used from space on the land
    in space that destroyed their brains and universes are here Roleplaying and recording illegally, editing and putting together ultra fake clips of life on planet earth in space to give rise to deep fakes in reality and to give aliens a made up excuse to abduct whoever they record.

    Aliens are recording without consent and permission, deep fake videos. They are timing recording people, editing everything and putting together deep fake video edits that psychologically destroys the brain. They are also advertising deep fake videos of peoples faces, voices and whatever their features are, to abduct persons onto their space ship and overwhelm the victim with their ugliest bodies with every top worse and disgusting smells from their bio hazardous and absurdly ugly bodies. They're brains are destroyed so they use AIs to speak. They are also liars made from biowaste. But they do not have permission to be here. They try to speak bigger than life, but they have no structure and they are mutants against biology and life.

    Oh, aliens may have replaced the people of earth with computer generated human lookalikes that serves aliens in infiltration. Both man and woman may be borrowed from spaceships for Camara shots in the US or bait traps to abduct man or woman into specific alien spaceships. There is a human lookalike that is using deep fake videos to their advantage.
    V2k = alien interpreters in space, and deep fakes that are aliens, wearing a humans body or lookalikes, computer generated to bypass restrictions and limitations.

  7. It's not rocket science, more and more people live sedentary lifestyles, while eating ๐Ÿ’ฉ.

  8. Thatโ€™s what happens when the majority of the population is just fat, and worthless. Same people who sit in their beds all day. Stop being so fatโ€ฆ. Iโ€™ll bet the Iโ€™ll eases just go away

  9. Itโ€™s called the Democratic voterโ€™s living with their vote! And, being soft on everythingโ€ฆ.

  10. I bet 3/4s of everyone in America has Hypertension

  11. Yet marijuana is still illegal on the federal level, so the gestapo in each state can subject people to outlandish fees and taxes. A lot of people use this for pain.

    In the medical sector, effective pain medications are under restrictions so tight that doctor shopping has become reality. I don't even need to mention the price. That speaks for itself.

    This is just mocking people who are suffering. I bet NBC gets a kick out of posting this.

  12. Maybe chronic pain sufferers are tired of "suffering in silence" so going to hear more about it now.

  13. That's ok. Pain is profit right? This is America no one cares. It's only about who you voted for.

  14. Doctors fail to help people in constant pain!! Punish regular people because a small number of people who abuse pain medications.

  15. Our bodies are telling us something – listen.

    Weโ€™re all suffering in this society, itโ€™s not sustainable or actually LIVABLE!!!

    Stress, overwork, burnout, injustice, exploitation, late stage capitalism, racism/discrimination…

    Are we surprised that yes, we as humans feel pain. That pain is there for a reason… to warn of us DANGER

  16. There is probably a connection to the general poor physical condition of the population.

  17. What? Denying pain pills *which has cauaed massive spikes in opioid deaths, not stopped them), and over prescribning Gabapentin to shut every up about pain is having a bad effect? Weird .

  18. I have chronic foot pain from plantar fasciitis and unused plantar cure electroshock device that keeps it under control to almost no symptoms. Also lots of weight training for my weak quadricep and weak glutes

  19. Chronic pain is real

  20. dont forget systemic hate, there is far more of that than your pouting

  21. ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜”๐Ÿ˜”๐Ÿ˜”๐Ÿ˜”๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜”๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜”

  22. We're living longer in bodies that aren't being treated after the oxycontin debacle.

  23. Another factor: many doctors are incompetent. They can't correctly diagnose the source of the pain, so they can't effectively treat it. First hand experience twice over. Still no resolution.

  24. Pain is subjective. Give any person opiates and euphoria once and everything else is just pain in comparison.

  25. Sucks cause they have meds to help but we canโ€™t have them cause where not dying.

  26. I had arthritis show up in both my ankles in my early 20s. Partly because I was very athletic at the time, it showed up earlier in life. Had some surgeries on one ankle to fuse it, which increased the pain each time. The other ankle remains arthritic, but now I have nerve pain too. I've been living with "chronic pain" for almost 30yrs now. I take several hundred MGs of morphine a day to manage, plus legal cannabis has helped me cut that back from THOUSANDS of milligrams a day. I've NEVER gotten a "high", just pain relief from meds etc. But the pain has been with me 24/7 for nearly 30yrs. The meds and cannibas reduce and make it tolerable, but my pain is chronic for sure. There hasn't been 1 minute in 30yrs I've been 100% pain free. I forgot what that feels like . Pain is crippling and it sux.

  27. I have the top three, and have for many years. Iโ€™m 46. Iโ€™ve tried a number of treatments and remedies and while they do work to ease the pain, nothing completely cures it.

  28. Gonna be 70 this year, and I'm still working my farm, milking my goat every morning. Grab a chainsaw go clear some 100' junk albiza trees. There is so much work and projects to do you don't waste time with excuses or pain. Work through the pain. Not in a gym.
    In the OUTSIDE, unless you're in a city. And NEVER jog along side a roads where cars and trucks are spewing exaust.
    Don't eat crap, fast food, gmo, soda, anything with ingredients you can't pronounce or know what it is.
    Stop eat chemially laced foods. (Preservatives)
    I can see 90 years at this rate. The last 20 were a snap.

  29. Why? Life is painful, emotionally when you're young, psychologically when you're middle aged and physical when you get old. I smoke joints everyday, I have little pain. lol

  30. Smoke pot. Itโ€™s vital to health.

  31. Wow, I have all four of the top troubles. We need to deal with the flood of fentanyl, but making me jump through endless hoops to get medication for a thirty year old injury ain't a good use of society's resources.

  32. Bc doctors don't offer pain management. I hurt my rotor cuff 2 months ago, told my doctor and he gave me stretches. Now I'm just living with it.

  33. I have 3 bad disk's in my neck 1 in my middle back and 2 in my lower back from an injury in 2002 that they can't fix. After 21 years of pain meds yes I'm addicted, even with all the proof in the world of my need for pain meds I'm looked down on like some low life who did this to him self and the drug store is at the top of that long list. SO PLEASE spare me your diet or god will save you bull ben their done that " IT DON'T WORK" !!!

  34. Itโ€™s the crappy food and crappy health care

  35. ๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿฆ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿฆ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿฆ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿฆ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿฆ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿฆ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ๐Ÿ‘œ

  36. The medical profession went from overprescribing opiates to not prescribing them to anybody and then now nobody gets any help

  37. Chronic pain is inflammation,and a bad diet starting with sugar just keeps turning up the heat. The treats for reward for a job well done,bring out the pain you went through to do it.

  38. Any correlation to the increase of opioid use/abuse? Donโ€™t want to be pessimistic but if itโ€™s not wanting painkillers itโ€™s probably poor diet, inactive lifestyle, smoking drinking.

  39. Showing up to the doctor means not buying groceries.

  40. Chronic pain for 40 years,im 66,Jesus is the way

  41. Iโ€™m not going to say people arenโ€™t suffering from chronic pain. I know many people who do but I know a lot of people who claim to be suffering from chronic pain who just want the pills.

    Perhaps worst of all I do know people who honestly suffer from chronic pain, but because of the color of their skin they are treated very harshly when I go to a doctor and actually ask for medication to treat the chronic pain. My stepfather is one of those people has a horrible back condition that causes pain to radiate to his body day and night without end . He said doctor can I have a pain pill they gave him Tylenol. His medical charts clearly showed he had chronic pain which could only be relieved with a stronger drug. He could not get a prescription for it until he went to several other pain experts who told is Dr. time and time again yes, this is the medication he should be getting to relieve his pain. For some reason black men, and even worse black women have it very hard when they try and go get pain medication from the doctor even if they can show proof they need it.

  42. To lovely people suffering from chronic pain. Please you should always drink Garlic water at night and early in the morning. Your body will love you. โค

  43. Crappy medical care for thirty years. No universal medical plan.

  44. Chronic pain has increased because people can't get prescribed pain killers anymore. If you try to get prescribed opiods nowadays, they treat you like you're a heroin addict.

  45. And pharmaceutical companies are just making crap up to keep you hooked on some form of medicine!