Phantom Pain
I am an AK Amputee & survived being run over by a train at work in 1981.
Since then I have had terrrible pain at times in my stump & felt it originated in the base of my spine. For years I had to visit the ER & all they could do for me was shoot me up with Morphine & very high doses. I hated it & 20 yrs.later I went to a Movement Disorder Neurologist & he diagnosed me with "Involutary Diskineseas" Well I had waited 20 yrs. to hear that it wasn't all in my head! He sugessted the same treatment & said Stress can be a trigger, so I made some life changes & really made a conscious effort to try to keep my stress at bay. This seemed to help alot & the spasms relented drastically. Now I seem to get these painful spasms rarely & only have to get one 30mg. shot of Morpine instead of 5-6 & I have not had an episode for 16 months!!