Hi Jenny,

Just a very quick reply, I have to go out, but your doc *is* uninformed.

I'll have a look later to see what I have about sympathetically/independently maintained pain, but from memory the two can coexist. Also, and separately, there is or was controversy about whether pain can "jump" systems (it was thought impossible, as your doctor thinks) but this has been theorized as explaining why blocks eventually stop working.

I think you need to do some research and print or email relevant info to your doc. Choose respected sites, don't include forum or newsletter stuff, preferably take either published research papers/articles/guidelines by doctors...oh! and only recent things, there's been a lot more research in the last 3 years.

You will find a lot of info about this, I'll post anything I find later,
all the best