Ariel’s Reviews > A Nation in Pain: Healing our Biggest Health Problem > Status Update

Wow, this book helped explain a mystery in my own life! I have these awful premenstrual pain flares, and apparently this could be due to the spike in estrogen. Also there was a great discussion of how genetics, epigenetics and stress play big roles is how severely we experience pain. I wish I could explain better, but I'm no scientist, so that's why I'm reading.

So far I'm on the dismal truth that if anything malfunctions, a piece of or the whole damn glass house of your body's complex pain reception/response system might shatter. Somehow my body has managed to give me severe daily nerve pain literally everywhere. Because it hates me. This book is fascinating, but also technical and depressing, so it might take me awhile to get through it.