Top 8 Most Painful Diseases

             Pain is an unpleasant feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli, such as stubbing a toe, burning a finger, putting alcohol on a cut, and bumping the "funny bone". Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in most advanced countries. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, and can significantly interfere with a person's quality of life and general functioning.

The Top 8 Most Painful Diseases are :

1. Cluster Headache












A neurological disorder with severe headaches typically near the eye, Cluster Headache is often said to be the most painful disease. The ache is mostly at one side of the head with nasal congestion, eye watering, and eye inflammation as the accompanying symptoms. Under this condition a group of headache attacks occur together giving it the name ‘Cluster’ headache.

2. Kidney Stones












The small stones can pass without any pain from the system but the bigger stones are the ones that are a cause of excruciating pain in the lower back or at the side of the abdominal region. Kidney stones are quite common and usually affect people around 30-60 years of age. The cause of Kidney stones is generally dehydration, high Sodium or Calcium content in the blood. So if you are not drinking enough water every day, here is your cue to redress that immediately.

3. Shingles











Shingles is due to the reactivation of the Varicella-zoster virus which remains dormant in the nervous system long after the Chicken pox goes away. It is characterized by a crop of blisters on one side of the body, especially around the waistline. The pain associated with it is tingling or burning which is inflamed even with the slightest touch around the region or just a breeze wafting over it.

4. Cancer 










Cancer is a condition where cells in a specific part of the part start growing and reproducing uncontrollably. It starts in one part of the body before spreading to others. The cancerous cells invade the entire system, destroying the healthy cells. Amounting to about 200 different types, cancer is a condition that is without doubt painful not only due to the cause and effect but also due to the treatment. People with advanced cancer experience pain either from the tumors itself or from the side effects of the chemotherapy and radiation used in the treatment procedures.

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5. Arthritis











Arthritis is a common condition that causes inflammation and pain within a joint. It is a condition that attacks irrespective of age and is found in people of all ages including children. Arthritis has a huge list of variation and the symptoms correspond to the type of arthritis a person has. The most common symptoms though include joint pain, tenderness or stiffness in the joints, inflammation, weakness and signs of muscle wasting, restricted movement of the joints and warmth or redness of the skin over the affected part.

6. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CPRS)













It is an abnormal neural response to an injury in which a person develops a chronic burning pain in any of their limbs post-injury. The injury by all means can be minor, but watch out for the pain that will blow your sense of minor and major out of proportion. The skin of the affected body part becomes highly sensitive and a slightest change around it (like variation in temperature, slight touch, bump etc) will cause intense pain.

7. Trigeminal Neuralgia













It is a neuropathic disorder that is characterized by a series of intense pain in the face. It is often described as lightening strikes on the face. It is more common in women than men and it is generally known to effect people of 40-60 years of age. It has no permanent cure.

8. Peritonitis











It is an inflammation of the thin tissue that lines most of the abdominal organs. Peritonitis can either be localized like Appendicitis or it can be generalized to the entire abdomen. This infection may be cause due to the rupture of a hollow organ as it is in the case of appendicitis.

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