"Have you ever had a really bad burn when you're cooking? Imagine that really bad burn, multiply it by, say, 20 to 30, and then apply it from the neck down. And on top of that burn was the lightning bolt razor snakes in my legs and the crazy nerve burn in my arms. So, it was several different kinds of pain at once."
"You know how they ask you, doctors tell me, 'From a scale of one to 10, what is your pain?' I would've said 100. You don't really realize 'til you have it. I never realized that pain can be that terrible. You don't want to even live anymore."
"It was 24/7, 365, likening it to "lightning bolt razor snakes in my legs and nerve pain in my arms.""
Complex regional pain syndrome affects roughly 200,000 people in the United States and can produce multiple, overlapping sensations including burning and lightning-like nerve pain. Standard imaging such as X-rays and MRIs often show no clear cause even when patients experience extreme suffering. Approximately 20% of Americans report living with pain. Severe pain can become overwhelming and lead to despair or thoughts of not wanting to live. Conditions such as osteoporosis and vertebral compression after a fall can produce intense pain that patients describe as far beyond common pain scales. Pain assessment tools may underrepresent true pain intensity.
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