Hypnosis for nerve pain: It helps

Nerve pain can occur in many places in your body and has many causes. It is incredibly annoying and especially if you don't want or can't take painkillers you want to do something about it. In that case hypnosis for nerve pain can be a solution.

Pain is actually quite useful. For example, it prevents you from getting badly burned when your hand accidentally gets too close to the stove when it's on.

But when you suffer from nerve pain, you can experience this kind of pain while nothing is going on. This is incredibly inconvenient. Especially since sometimes your nerves also don't transmit pain when they should[1]. Therefore, check your body regularly for injuries you haven't noticed.

Neuropathic pain

Neuropathic pain is another name for nerve pain. If you suffer from this, a certain health condition causes the nerves that communicate feeling to your brain to become damaged.

That damage causes you to experience pain. This often feels like a burning or stinging sensation. It can even feel like an electric shock. Usually the symptoms are worst at night.

Nerve pain is mild for one person and more severe for another.

Neuropathic pain allows you to become more sensitive all over your body, so lying under a blanket can even become painful.

Sometimes nerve pain can cause you to lose your balance, making it easier to fall.

In addition, some people become so desperate from nerve pain that they become suicidal.

Neuropathic pain is a condition that can worsen. It is therefore important to seek treatment to stop and perhaps even reverse the progression.

Causes of nerve pain

Nerve pain is often a result of diabetes, vitamin B12 deficiency or damage to the brain, your spine or a specific nerve.

Vitamin B12 deficiency can occur in alcoholics or vegans.

A herniated disc in your spine can be the cause of nerve pain.

In addition, diseases such as HIV and cancer can also cause nerve pain[2]. In the case of cancer, for example, a tumor can press on a nerve, causing you to experience pain.

Shingles can also cause nerve pain. This version of neuropathic pain often causes sudden severe pain.

Lyme disease can also cause nerve pain.

In some cases, there is just no obvious cause to be found for neuropathic pain.

Treatment of nerve pain

It is always helpful to see a doctor if you have nerve pain, as it can be a symptom of an illness[3].

Depending on where you have nerve pain, you can usually get medication or surgery to reduce the pain. For example, do you have this in your ankle? Then surgery will be considered, but only after other management techniques have failed[4].

Generally, nerve pain is treated with painkillers, with exercise, accupuncture or relaxation [5]. Sometimes ibuprofen use is encouraged or creams that have an analgesic effect.

If you are deficient in vitamin B12, taking vitamin B12 supplements is the most logical treatment in that case.

But sometimes antidepressants or medication for epilepsy are used instead to reduce nerve pain[6].

Sometimes lifestyle changes are actually encouraged, such as regular exercise, maintaining or gaining a healthy weight and eating a healthy diet[7].

Added to this is the problem that medication for nerve pain often only provides a solution in half the cases[8].

Hypnosis for nerve pain

Do you have a form of nerve pain that is unexplained, prefer not to take painkillers? Then hypnosis can help you still numb the pain or simply suffer less.

The effect of hypnosis on pain has been studied for decades. Anesthesiologists are already trained in hypnosis in some countries, and hypnosis is also considered a good method for reducing chronic pain.

This is partly because the nervous system responds well to hypnosis[9].

Hypnosis has been used on someone for whom other treatments failed to reduce pain for 5 years. For her, VR hypnosis helped reduce pain, but she had to return regularly to maintain this effect[10].

Self-hypnosis has been studied in people with HIV for reducing nerve pain. This study found that nerve pain was reduced by half by self-hypnosis regardless of whether or not one was taking pain medication. This was the case in nearly 80% of the participants[11].

This is a percentage roughly equivalent to the amount of people who are easily or averagely hypnotizable. Should you consider what can happen when a hypnotherapist helps you instead of depending on yourself and self-hypnosis.

A case study of a 67-year-old man with neuropathic pain due to diabetes shows that hypnosis can also help well with nerve pain. In his case, he used individual hypnosis sessions, group hypnosis sessions and self-hypnosis to reduce pain. This improved his quality of life and also caused him to use fewer painkillers[12].

Changing your perception of pain is something that is done with hypnotic suggestions. First, hypnosis is induced in you, making it easier for you to go along with the suggestion the hypnotist is giving you. Then your imagination and imagination are used to numb the pain. For example, through a guided visualization of an ice pack that takes away the pain or some kind of magical liquid that cleanses your body and makes it free of pain.

In people with chronic pain, these types of suggestions help reduce pain[13].

Are you looking for someone to help you with nerve pain? Then click here to find a hypnotherapist near you.

Want to learn more about hypnosis and how it can help people? Then come to the free online master class on hypnosis.

Want to learn immediately how to help yourself or others with hypnosis? Then enroll in one of the Hypnosis Institute Netherlands' training courses. These are taught online and, when possible, in class.

A professional studio is used for the online classes to make the lessons as clear as possible.

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