Re: How does persistent pain effect a person's immune system?

Dear Csilla, 
it is sure that pain can effect the immune system of a person!

apart from that,I can not answer your question, not in terms that you 
agree. I do not know much about this argument.

Indeed, I find some interesting articles that can help you to understand 
the relations between pain and immune system; these are the titles ( you can 
get them in a library of a university, or of some hospital):

-Sfefanski et al.; Social stress, dominance and cellular immunity; J 
Neuroimmunol 1999, 94:144;
- Cohen et al.; Differential immune system changes with acute and 
persistent stress for optimists vs pessimists; Brain behav Immun 1999, 
13:155
-Page eet al.; The immune-suppressive nature of pain; Semin oncol Nurs 
1997, 13:10;
-Peters et al.; Immune responses to expìerimental stress: effects of mental 
effort and uncontrollability; Psychosom Med 1999, 61:513;
Everson et al.; Stress and immune disfunction in Gulf war veterans; Ann N Y 
Acad Sci 1999, 876:413.

I hope that they can help you in your search...

yours faithfully

Dr. Luca Faoro