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From: Frank.Matthews@f13.n123.z1.fidonet.org (Frank Matthews)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Chronic Pain?
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Date: 15 Mar 91 22:04:18 GMT
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[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference on Fidonet]

* In a message originally to Peter Baker, Sheila Jones said:
SJ>
SJ> My husband who is partially paralysed has constant pain in
SJ> his limbs although doctors have said that this shouldn't be
SJ> the case.  What a lot of nonsense .. If the nervous system
SJ> is partially damaged, then some of those signals still get
SJ> through to nerve ends and the pain is to tell you something
SJ> is wrong.  Common sense??? or am I wrong, would be
Hi,
a few years ago I was in a bike wreck and amoung other things was
run over by the car....and for quite some time I had NO function in
my right leg (initially both legs)...but...like your husband I had
pain....the docs said I'd never walk again or if I did it would be
with braces to hold my feet and crutches or canes...well let me tell
you the doctors don't know all they think they do....while it may
take quite some time for  your husband to "rewire" these circuits
and "reprogram" the cpu to handle the new wiring it can be done...be
patient and never give up...one thing to note...lots of times neural
failure can be due to a nerve being inflamed...asprin or other
anti-inflamitories can work wonders.
>>>>==Frank==*>>>

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