CMPD

I’m a 28 year old in Canada. I’m a teacher (currently on sick leave because of my pain) and a mom to a toddler. I’ve had debilitating pain for the past 2.5 years. 2.5 years ago, I had suspected Baxter’s nerve entrapments. It was quite bad, but for the most part I was able to live my life. To see if that was the problem, I got bilateral cortisone injections in the Baxter’s nerve entrapment site. After the freezing wore off, I developed a new severe pain on the bottoms of my feet. It was like an electric shock and burning feeling, and was so bad that I had to have ice on my feet almost all the time, and started using a wheelchair. My life changed drastically. Around the same time, I found out that I was pregnant. My foot pain persisted, but did start to get less intense. Eventually it was usually still there, but it wasn’t as intense and all-encompassing. Now, it’s still bad to the point that I can’t walk much (a couple of minutes usually), but it’s much less severe, and mostly right at the Baxter’s site, instead of also on the bottom. When I gave birth, my pain went away for a few days. I was on various medications for unrelated pregnancy issues, so assumed it went away because of that. After giving birth, my pain persisted at my episiotomy site for a while (longer than expected). It eventually got better, but I developed bad lower back/glute pain. Sometimes the pain is a bit higher as well. I’ve been seeing a few different physiotherapists throughout this. My physiotherapists think my problem is SI instability, and that strengthening the SI joint will help.


I recently read The MindBody Prescription and Healing Back Pain, and it seems like TMS could definitely be the problem with my back pain. It makes a lot of sense with my situation, personality, past, etc. However, I haven’t been able to find anything about Baxter’s nerve entrapment. Has anyone experienced this? Could this be TMS as well? Could TMS start to resolve on its own without realizing it’s TMS/therapy/etc.?


Thank you! I’m so glad I found this forum!