r/PainReprocessing

I’ve been doing PRT for 16 months now
(Somatic tracking) and I’ve seen a lot of of success, but I find that my nervous system still is extremely sensitive, my flare ups keep getting worse and my body has started reacting to big milestones.

For context, the first 7 months of my rehab was extremely successful. I was making consistent progress every week and feeling great. I went from being practically bedridden for years, to being active again. However, in that time I noticed my flareups would last longer and longer. First, they started out lasting about a week and then two and then three, but I didn’t think much of it because I was so happy with my progress. After that seven month mark, I seem to hit a wall when I decided that I was gonna go back to school. I knew it wasn’t a coincidence but I was still feeling very good and I thought if I can continue my PRT in school, it could be even more helpful. The first day of school came. Usually movement is what flares up my pain, but this time I was sitting around comfortable and happy, and within an hour I had the worst flareup I’ve ever experienced. It kept me in my bed for about six weeks, however with more PRT I ended up almost recovering to where I was at before within a few months. I was happy again, so I decided I was going to book a trip within the country and visit my friend. About two weeks before that, again, without any excessive movements, I started to go downhill day by day. And once again I flared up to the worst I’ve ever been. I am now four weeks into that flareup and Ive barely seen any progress. I’m trying my best but the pain is too intense to do PRT right now and it just won’t go down.

I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. When I’m feeling good I truly am not afraid of the pain. I guess I am treating things too much like a test, but it shouldn’t be causing flare ups this bad. My body is clearly reacting heavily to these big milestones that signify me getting my life back. The flare ups are getting so bad and so intense that it’s impossible to ignore and it’s making it harder and harder to do the PRT. If anyone has any tips or advice that would be greatly appreciated.

hi i’m gonna keep this as short as i can.

i’m (18f) and ive had chronic widespread pain for abt 3 years now. i am also a nursing student so the pain has been hell for me the past year.

i was diagnosed with OCD almost a year ago, and i’ve struggled with anxiety and depression since i was 15.

i’m working with my doctor on a diagnosis and she thinks its fibromyalgia but to be honest idec abt the name i just want this to be over. it derails every area of my life. my energy levels, my sleep, my mood, my depression, my tolerance.

i’m also worried abt clinicals bc how am i gonna do this for 9 hours.

anyways, i read alan gordon’s book, “The Way Out,” and i really liked it. every single things is pointing to my pain being neuroplastic.

i started having headaches during 11th grade when i was studying the most, never sleeping, and having the worst intrusive thoughts of my life. i had sleep paralysis, insomnia, anxiety attacks, you name it.

i found that my pain went away when i finished my final exams for my first year of nursing school. the pain was gone for almost two weeks straight and it blew my mind. i woke up everyday expecting it to come back and it didn’t…until it did.

i did somatic tracking for the first time a few weeks ago when my pain was low enough and was predominantly in my arm and it went away??
i know the point of somatic tracking is for your brain to get to know your pain as NOT dangerous but it’s really hard.

i also tend to have a lot of pain when i’m home. my parents are..my parents and i have a lot of trouble feeling safe around them. they were pretty abusive as a kid and they aren’t any more now that i’m older but it affected me a lot. i don’t rlly like talking to it and ive been avoiding it in therapy bc it just brings up all these bad feelings and it also makes me pain 10x worse.

i just feel alone in this to be honest.

I’ll try and keep this long Drawn out life story as simple as I can

OCD for as long as I can remember . Scared of family injuries and deaths . Rituals that would come and go and sometimes take up large chunks of my day, although I was able to hid it from the public for most of my life , except the muscle twitching

Would sprain things as a kid and pull my neck but never thought anything of it ( I was a very active 90’s kid who would play and fall and get dirty and hurt)

I remember bouts of back pain as young as 14 on the golf course and the feeling of “blowing my back out “

Age 20- traumatic injury while deadlifting . Immediate pop and 10/10 pain in lower back and hips

Never saw a doctor for it for over 15 years and the pain would range from 10/10 to 2/10 . Finally saw a doctor and of course mri would show 4 herniations of the lower back and 3 in the neck . So I had it , a “structural issue” causing my pain.

Neck pain. Mid back pain. Hip pain. Planter fasciitis over the years. Two almost identical wrist injuries within 1 month of each other with identical pain

After 17 yrs of chronic pain and just not being able to tolerate it along with life’s stressors, I decided on l4/l5 microdissectomy
- recovery has been tough. Not the wake up and feel amazing recovery so many people talked about . It actually brought on worse sciatica as my nerve root has become inflamed

Which led me to PRT. I am only two days into learning about it and I am very interested .

I am open to taking any and all advice !

Christian