Hi Alison,
It was good to hear from you. Hope all goes well with your treatment and pt. I know how painful it is, but it's worth it to get the use of your limbs again. I had frozen shoulder, really RSD from breast surgery. I'm so glad I stuck with it. RSD used to be call hand shoulder syndrom. Anyway, I had lot of spasms too , myclonic jerks, and electric shocks through lots of parts of my body and brain. I had been on 3200 mg. of Neurotin to get them nearly stopped. about 2 years and then about a year ago I changed to the new drug lyrica and it worked well for the spasms and better for pain. Was able to reduce my pain meds. I'm not saying I don't have pain, I do but I'm willing to go down on meds to feel more normal.Let us hear from you after you get back home. Don't get discouraged from the treatment-it's very slow. I took pain meds an hour before pt. I also had an hour of massage just before pt.
It's wonderful you have your Mom with you. Loretta Jewell