Visceral hypersensitivity

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I have just been diagnosed with visceral hypersensitivity. I have never met anybody else with this so if anybody has any advice, it would be welcome.

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Per the Internet viseral hypersensitivity is "Visceral hypersensitivity refers to your experience of pain or discomfort in your visceral organs — the soft, internal organs that live in your chest, abdomen and pelvic cavity. If you have visceral hypersensitivity, your threshold for pain in these organs is lower than normal."

My take - is I have been where you are and I suggest you

1) ask your doctor to prove that your threshold is low ( he/she cannot - there is no objective measure of pain). You might have very severe pain but he/she cannot feel your pain!

2) get a new doctor. Your doctor is blaming you for the amount of pain you feel, saying it is not real, it is you being hypersensitive.

My "hypersensitivity" turned out to be a crushed nerve, that took several doctors and 8 months to find. In the end my inability to move my leg (crush was in the pelvis), allow the diagnosis. Sad... that patients are blamed for "low pain threshold" when a doctor cannot find the cause.