Hi Arsenicyellow,

Was the type of nerve injury your boyfriend had ever identified?

I promise sometimes they can do something to help. I had a nerve partially torn during a minor ortho procedure and had months of intractable pain until a peripheral nerve surgeon figured out from a "scratch collapse test" that I had entrapment and possibly a neuroma which are excruciating. During a 3.5 hour nerve repair surgery they found I DID have a neuroma and scarred down nerves. This operation changed my life for the better. I got CRPS from a later procedure. To this day I am grateful to my nerve surgeon who saved me from being balled up on the couch from morning till night.

Dr Michael Winograd at Mass General does peripheral nerve and he did a fellowship at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis which is where my surgeon trained. The internationally known nerve surgeon Dr. Susan Mackinnon is at that hospital in St. Louis. If he worked with her program he has excellent training. Mackinnon saved a young Canadian woman from CRPS 2. Poor girl had it for years before they found and fixed the problem.

If your boyfriend can stomach one more consult it would be worth knowing whether anything is to be done for his injured nerve. It never hurts to get information...