My feet and lower legs started to burn tonight as I remembered a difficult time:
My sister was very ill in November of 2007 just before my foot surgery was scheduled 2 years after my injury. I postponed the surgery and traveled by train to Colorado to be with her..she had been in intensive care for weeks...She was my beloved sister and best friend..she was on life support and very, very ill, in and out of a coma. I broke down emotionally several times while I was there..

(There were other emotionally painful circumstances and conflict around her illness which were very upsetting...)

I had to leave, which was devastating to me, and come back to my job. Two weeks later I got the phone call that she had passed away. I grieved painfully and for a long time.

I had my foot surgery at the end of February of 2008 which resulted in the RSD.

I've had low pain days for several days in my feet/lower legs, but tonight when I was looking through some lines I had written while in Colorado during that very difficult time, and some some little papers, etc, I had kept from Colorado, and some old photos of my sister and me, my feet and lower legs started to burn and ache, which they haven't done in two or three weeks. It was instantaneous right at the same time as all the memories flooded back to me.

Was this my sympathetic nervous system kicking in and causing this flare of burn? I felt the burn feeling creep over my feet and lower legs as I remembered this difficult time....

I am trying to understand the correlation and the physiology of this reaction...it is amazing..

As i write this at almost 2:00 am in the morning, I am still in a burn flare...

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this very obvious connection between difficult memories and pain/burn flare...
Thanks for being there to listen...who else would understand
Many hugs from Hope4thebest xoxo