Hi Vrae and everyone don't know how I've missed this thread I blame a brainless CRPS duh moment...

I have had some gastro problems for ages both before CRPS and after. I had my gallbladder removed not long after my second daughter was born (10 yrs ago eek), was diagnosed coeliac about 6 years ago, and have had various issues with meds affecting my stomach. Gabapentin was the worst and most dramatic - I was very ill twice on it, sickness, diarrhoea, cramping pain, dizzy etc and the doc thought it was a stomach bug first time, second time hit less than 2 weeks later - and no one else was getting ill, I wasn't eating anything weird or different to the family. I'd had to stop the Gaba while ill because I couldn't keep a thing down, and after the second time (thought I was going to die at one horrible point ) we decided to stop it and see. Well I got better so fast it wasn't even funny. Scares me to think what I might have gone through if he'd insisted I persevere...

I went onto a low dose of Lyrica and it's been much better, but the last two weeks I've had that upper left shoulder blade persistent ache/pain thing almost constantly, and it's worse a few minutes after I take my tablet... I'm so scared that I've started reacting to that too. It's not awful yet, but it's getting me down, especially so close to Christmas...

I need to get tougher on my diet again as it has slipped a bit recently with so much going on and me having a bad flare, but this ache hasn't happened before. I did think at one point that it was part of the CRPS aches and pains, senstivity and weirdness I've got going on in my left arm, side, chest and shoulder...but the last few days I've wondered if it's actually more gastric in nature - and reading this thread it makes more sense.

Vrae, I hope you are feeling a little better and doing ok today. You've had rough trot recently and deserve a break....as do we all!

Take care all x

Bram.