Originally Posted by glenntaj

--this is a phenomenon that has been reported,as often, regrowing nerves (and nerves regrow very slowly--even under the best of conditions a figure of 1mm/day is often cited) must fight their way through or around other tissues, and the sensations such incompletely connected nerves record are often interpreted by the brain in unusual ways.

It is difficult to know if one's symptoms are getting better except in longer term retrospect, one reason many of us keep long term symptom diaries. Many of us are prone to symptom "flares" as well, which may eventually "die down" to more baseline symptom levels, or even, hopefully, lower baseline levels.