I went to Amazon and searched for books on Pain.

It returned 130,000+ books. OK, so a few people have written on the subject.

Has anyone ever found a book helpful? Scanning through the titles, and nothing really jumped out at me. They all seemed about external pains, or back pains, or pains you could treat. Not REAL pain.

I have a theory, it's just a theory at the moment mind you. All pain known to man is just a shadow of pain, an echo. Only cluster headaches are real pain, pure pain. Created in the pain centre (the brain) delivered to the pain centre (the brain). Pure as pure can be.

Everywhere you read about clusters, it says that they are the most intense pain known to man, but has anyone proved it? (as much as it can be proven) I know everyone's sense of pain is unique to them, and we each have our own pain thresholds, so what one person considers extreme, another might think is mild. But who is to say a cluster is the worst pain known to man (or woman)?

I've had back pain and back injury, and kidney stones. Clusters blow both of them out of the water by a long shot. I'm a practitioner of S&M, and peruse extreme pain routinely, and nothing I do for pleasure even comes close to a cluster, not even on the same scale. And I do some pretty intense stuff, things that make some pretty extreme players gasp. I was once stung by a box jelly fish in Honduras, and that was pretty mild in comparison. I want to go to Australia and get stung by a proper, big dangerous box jelly fish, the ones that really hurt, and see how that compares. Now THAT would be some pain to compare things by.

The reason I've brought all this up is I'm thinking of writing my own book on pain, on extreme pain. On Cluster Headaches and Invisible Pains, and how people live with pain that other people can't see, and how it cripples their lives. I want to describe pure pain.

Renée

  I'm at a loss for words here. 

I have had back surgery, gall ballder removed, torn rotator cuff, knee surgery, overy and felopian tube twisted 3x, gave birth to twins naturally 1 1/2 hrs apart with complications, etc and nothing came close to the ch pain.  My dr said with the felopian tube pain most women are on there knees in hours.  He couldn't understand how I delt with it for 3 days before I came in.  I said the pain wasn't as bad as my ch.  He became my best dr advocate for ch at that moment he understood.