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00:00:04 So let's get started. So first of all, we're going to talk about understanding pain. So pain in the brain, you know, I want to, I'm going to cover all about how pain works, the science behind these pain signals, you know, is period pain normal? You know, why do you get period pain and then the whole chronic pain and endometriosis and how we can describe and measure this pain to help when we're talking to medical professionals and then what can we do about this? You know, why do you get period pain and then the whole chronic pain and endometriosis and how we can describe and measure this pain to help when we're talking to medical professionals and then what can we do about this? so first of all how does pain work well pain is a really good thing first of all it keeps us alive I mean if you think in a scenario of cutting your finger you know if you burn yourself on the oven or something more you know serious like a serious burn pain is is a good thing it stops us walking further into danger and so it I'll go through in a minute kind of like how you actually walking further into danger and so it I'll go through in a minute kind of like how you actually
00:01:02 cut your finger how that works but it's that pain signal helps to put us into high alert so that we can then seek a way to address that pain and then heal afterwards so it comes from signals in our brain and it comes from our our body as a network you know we have our nervous system we have all these nerve fibers and they carry right through to the skin but also in our organs everywhere and we have these pain receptors and these pain receptors can tell whether we feel organs everywhere and we have these pain receptors and these pain receptors can tell whether we feel pain both mechanical pain um chemical pain um mechanical chemical and then there's one more which i've just forgotten off to my head but there's three three ways that you can feel pain
00:01:46 um so when we injure ourselves these pain signals get sent back to our brain um and then to to make us move away from that okay so this is this is kind of like a basic the basic idea so this is us move away from that okay so this is this is kind of like a basic the basic idea so this is shown here if you cut your finger um for example if you were chopping um a cucumber and you cut your finger open it's like ow and it's instantaneous it's amazing how instantaneous that is and those pain receptors literally send those danger signals via spinal cord up your brain stem and then the pain is registered so your body and it depends of course have you experienced this before it might be a new pain or it might be something where you've cut it before and depending on your
00:02:28 experience depending on whether you've had a traumatic event depending on whether you're experience depending on whether you've had a traumatic event depending on whether you're highly stressed at this particular point in time or whether you're actually very calm will depend on how how you register that pain and how painful it is and that's why you can hear of people who walk across hot coals you know that should be something that's painful but it's because they put themselves in a mind state where they are able to not actually feel that pain response okay um so after you remove yourself from that threat you know you've taken the knife away um so after you remove yourself from that threat you know you've taken the knife away
00:03:02 um or you've you know put your hand under the cool water you stop burning your hand the body then starts to heal goes through this process and that the pain eventually reduces so this is just a very quick and easy way of doing it um so like i said how you're feeling is absolutely you know really really key if you're scared um if you have memories or trauma around something like this this is where pain will increase particularly if it's a repeated repeated element and coming back this is where pain will increase particularly if it's a repeated repeated element and coming back to the three stimuli it's mechanical so like a pinch or a pressure heat that's what i forgot heat and chemical so is period pain normal and the answer is no it is not it is really really common
00:03:47 but it is not normal and I think you all you all know this um or if you don't I'd like you to know this it is not normal to have period pain maybe a twinge but not pain where it's extreme so when this it is not normal to have period pain maybe a twinge but not pain where it's extreme so when you have period pain it's known as dysmenorrhea um there's primary dysmenorrhea and then there's secondary dysmenorrhea primary dysmenorrhea is when you get pain around the first three days your period where secondary dysmenorrhea is around at any point during the month um and it can happen in different areas so you might have pain associated with bowel movements urination around ovulation um during sex ongoing back and pelvic pain so that's known as secondary
00:04:24 around ovulation um during sex ongoing back and pelvic pain so that's known as secondary dysmenorrhea and it is quite useful to know these technical terms because if you're talking to your doctor and if you understand these terms um you know in the future in the past if you you know if you've got relatives who are going through you know a similar journey or who have endometriosis or you think might have endometriosis or got painful periods you're able to advise them of this because i think knowledge is a really key thing around period pain um because even the
