NERVE PAIN

[PARROTGREY]

Hi everyone. My name is Paul and l have CRPS in both of my feet the left one being the worse. I find it hard to walk due to increases in pain. I have tramadol gabapentin and paracetamol but nothing seems to lower the pain. I really need support to get better

 

[ARCUser831]

Hi Paul, welcome to the community. I imagine you are here because you suspect your CRPS is actually TMS. As a first step, a lot of people will probably recommend that you read through some success stories of folks with similar pain to yourself to help support your belief in TMS.

CRPS success stories: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) - The TMS Wiki

You can also look up nerve pain success and find accounts of a lot of people that have overcome similar pains. I've seen quite a few posts about people with nerve pain wondering if it is rooted in TMS. It may help you to read some TMS content, because they do discuss nerve pain in addition to muscle and tendon pain (John Sarno's Mind Body Prescription, Steve Ozanich's The Great Pain Deception).

As a first step though, I'd recommend Dr. Alan Gordon's Pain Recovery Program on this site. It's a great introduction to TMS and how to begin the work. Pain Recovery Program | TMS Forum (The Mindbody Syndrome) (tmswiki.org)

You will find this forum is great support if you decide to commit to this path. I've come to fully believe this is the road to recovery for myself, and if you are like many of us and doctors cannot find an answer or no treatments for your pain work, TMS is a very likely explanation for you too.

Best of luck, sorry for the pain you are in.

 

[Cactusflower]

Here's the website for two of our wonderful members @TG957 and @miffybunny who have both healed from CRPS and other symptoms. https://defeatcrps.com/ (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome : Your Path To Healing)

 

[TG957]

Paul, you are welcome to reach out if you have any questions! CRPS is just another form of TMS and is fully reversible!

 

[JanAtheCPA]

if you are like many of us and doctors cannot find an answer or no treatments for your pain work, TMS is a very likely explanation for you too.

This is worth repeating, @PARROTGREY. There has been a lot of discussion here over the years - and a fair amount of joking - about how the diagnosis names that the medical community has come up with for these conditions do nothing except describe the symptoms.
Fibromyalgia just translates to pain in the fibrous muscle tissue.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is obvious.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome - ditto
and CRPS: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. It's not a diagnosis, it's a description of symptoms which makes the patient feel like they are being heard and that something has been accomplished, and makes the doctor feel a bit better for providing a so-called diagnosis. Not that the doctor has a treatment, mind you. All they can offer is temporary symptom mitigation.

The traditional medical community has no solution, but the ever-growing science and practice of mindbody medicine does. In addition to checking out the specific CRPS resources of @TG957 and @miffybunny, I urge you to read one of these ASAP:

It may help you to read some TMS content, because they do discuss nerve pain in addition to muscle and tendon pain (John Sarno's Mind Body Prescription, Steve Ozanich's The Great Pain Deception).

or Sarno's last book, The Divided Mind, which I downloaded from my public library as soon as I heard about it twelve years ago - and it saved my life.