Dax Shepard

It's not told to us.

The treatment for chronic pain is identifying your pain recipe with all of the ingredients and mapping them out, hopefully with someone else, but you can also do it on your own, and then figuring out what you need to do

to change the ingredients in your pain recipe.

There is always hope for treating chronic pain.

And it makes me crazy because like if you Google the treatment for fibromyalgia, it will tell you there is none.

I can't tell you how many of my patients were told that there's just no treatment for their pain.

They've been through all the medications.

In fact, in medicine, if you've had four back surgeries and you still have back pain, you will get diagnosed.

Check me.

With failed back surgery syndrome, as if you failed the treatment instead of the other way around.

There is always a treatment for chronic pain.

The treatment exists.

It's looking at the recipe and figuring out what we can do to lower pain volume.

And there's a million things we can do.

The great challenge to me still seems like asking patients for behavioral modifications.

versus pills or procedures is a tall order.

Getting people to change their behavior is really, really hard.

I agree with you.

I would say it's a combination of things.

I am not telling people to go off their pills.