I might just pay Houston a visit. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome pain is indeed very painful and temporarily debilitating.
Sometimes impossible to hold a glass of water, or sleep.
Got it in both hands, both arms and both shoulders/collar bone areas. Makes sleep almost impossible most nights unless I have a strong painkiller.
Can’t even thrown a snowball more than 50 feet. Used to be able to throw it 100 feet or more and very accurately.
Glad I don’t live in England. They would have given me A kidney pie and two aspirins to cure it, and told me to come back in two years.
I really feel sorry for this man. My mother was a chronic pain patient for at least the last 10 years of her life. Only the Leukemia pain was worse, but at least it didn’t last too long.
Pain is real. It is just that some doctors refuse to listen to the patient. I’ve had two great doctors in my family, so I know how a good doctor functions. They “listen”.
There is a painful disease from which I suffer, called “Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy” which is also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
What happens basically is very similar to phantom pain that a troop might have should she/he lose a limb.
Sometimes it’s so bad, you’ll do ANYTHING to get away from the pain, but amputation is NOT the answer because you may trigger that phantom pain, and you are basically right back where you began.
What happens basically is very similar to phantom pain that a troop might have should she/he lose a limb.
For some reason, the brain can’t snap out of the “hurt mode” and hence sends pain signals repeatedly, even though the injury has been healed.
In some folks, it flares once and goes away, in others it never lets up.
In my case it stems from an old, but severe knee injury.
For me it never let’s up, but there is medication that can help with the pain.
For further reading, please start here:
http://www.medicinenet.com/reflex_sympathetic_dystrophy_syndrome/article.ht
Anyone suffering from chronic pain who wants to chat in Freepmail, please feel free to drop me a line.
I told my Doc that the greatest thing he can do is LISTEN to what people are telling you about pain.
We want to be believed!