I’m stepping far outside my area of expertise here so please treat this as good faith, uneducated questions.
My understanding is that most of this research is about chronic pain rather than acute pain. I know AFAB people experience chronic pain at like 3x the rates of AMAB people, and that especially immune-moderated pain diseases are much harder to manage in AFAB. I also recognize this is an area of active research and much is yet to be confirmed, but I wonder if acute pain pathways are the same as chronic pain pathways? My limited understanding is that acute pain from tissue damage, etc. is still understood to be nervous system activation for both sexes.
Is it also accurate that these pathways and their activations are largely sex-hormone related? I wonder if that means we could survey trans folks on their experiences of pain before and after transition, both ways.
Thank you for your comment, this has spurred me to do some reading!
Anecdotal, but given how many trans women i know who have developed some form of chronic fuckery or another, i’d believe the hormone drivers. Fascinating things
I’m stepping far outside my area of expertise here so please treat this as good faith, uneducated questions.
My understanding is that most of this research is about chronic pain rather than acute pain. I know AFAB people experience chronic pain at like 3x the rates of AMAB people, and that especially immune-moderated pain diseases are much harder to manage in AFAB. I also recognize this is an area of active research and much is yet to be confirmed, but I wonder if acute pain pathways are the same as chronic pain pathways? My limited understanding is that acute pain from tissue damage, etc. is still understood to be nervous system activation for both sexes.
Is it also accurate that these pathways and their activations are largely sex-hormone related? I wonder if that means we could survey trans folks on their experiences of pain before and after transition, both ways.
Thank you for your comment, this has spurred me to do some reading!
Anecdotal, but given how many trans women i know who have developed some form of chronic fuckery or another, i’d believe the hormone drivers. Fascinating things