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Pain comes in so many varieties. Cutting yourself on a sheet of paper can hurt so much, but you can't feel pain from a major trauma (at first) because of the production of adrenaline. Muscle soreness after a hard workout can feel nice, the satisfaction of a heavy workout. You forget pain during childbirth, fortunately, but otherwise no woman would want to have a second child. And sometimes mental pain can feel real too. Pain because someone hurts you or the empathy of someone else's pain. Pain is a response of the body. A warning: beware something is going on. Pain is most of the time for a few seconds, hours or days. But what if the pain doesn't go away. That the pain suddenly continues for weeks or months. That pain that cannot be explained. Pain throughout your body but not continuously and in the same place. A few months ago I went to the doctor. Again with vague complaints: I have a kind of muscle pain in my hands that has no clear cause, but does not go away either. F...