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Pain and nothing more: an ending reporting a symptom the person feels, with no claim about what is causing it.
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10 matchesarthalgia
A missing letter rather than a different symptom: the same joint pain, spelled the way it is often typed and rarely corrected.
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How many joints hurt, whether they match on both sides, and how long morning stiffness lasts sort the causes faster than the pain itself.
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Pain here is generated by altered processing within the nervous system, which is a mechanism rather than the absence of one.
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Whether the ache sits in one muscle or everywhere at once is the first question, because the two lists of causes barely overlap.
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Pain with no injury underneath it, which is why ordinary painkillers disappoint and drugs built for epilepsy and depression do not.
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Thoracalgia refers to pain in the chest wall or chest region, a symptom that can stem from muscular, skeletal, or internal organ causes.
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Thoracodynia is a clinical term for pain located in the chest wall, arising from causes that range from muscular strain to underlying disease.
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One drug licensed across mood and pain, duloxetine works partly through spinal cord pathways that damp pain signals before they reach the brain.
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Designed around the shape of a calming brain chemical, yet it works nowhere near that chemical's receptors.
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