What is CRPS?
CRPS is the short version of the name of Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome. CRPS type 1 is nerve damage. This is what i have in both my ankles. This is when the brain is sending constant pain messages to where ever you have CRPS. It is doing this as the Pain nerve has swelled and is pushing on the Touch nerve. So now the Touch nerve is sending pain messages to that area instead of Touch. This makes the area very sensitive and very painful constantly. My pain is a 8/10 constantly. My doctors describe my pain as worse than pregnancy. Some cases are more severe than others. I have met others with my condition and they can still walk and everything. i am in a wheelchair and have been for 2 years. CRPS has no cure but i go to physio daily and do school at physio for 2 hours a day. Many Pain killers have been tested on me but none work. For everyone else i have met amitriptilene has helped them.