Dr. Sanjay Gupta

But what they do know from an outcome standpoint is that these patients are getting tremendous relief.

There's options out there.

There's hope out there.

But pain is the most mysterious sensation that we human beings experience.

You've got to treat it that way.

You know, I preface all these conversations I have with patients with a reminder that, look, I don't want to say anything that's going to minimize their pain.

Because I think when I say something like,

All pain resides in the brain.

I'm not at the same time saying it's all in your head.

Those are two different things.

And I'm saying this as a neuroscientist.

But all pain is in the brain.

I don't want that to sound minimizing, okay?

But that is where pain is.

Pain is in the brain.

If your brain doesn't decide you have pain, then you don't have pain.

And by the way, the flip is also true, which is the brain can decide you do have pain if

For no reason, people who have limbs that are missing, they have phantom limb pain.

How could that be that it's not even there anymore and it still hurts?

Or something known as chronic regional pain syndrome, which is basically pain in your hands or feet without any injury or any obvious trauma or anything.