Erin,
In defense of your doctors "phantom pain" is real pain, just a remembered one that your brain can't get rid of, and is hard, but not impossible to treat. In defense of you, they should be getting you to a clinic that treats chronic pain. There is an interesting article on pain that explains such mechanisms and you might want to print it and take on your next visit: I hope they will let me leave this link, but just incase, I will type out what comes after Doctordeluca.com/Library/Pain/CP1newDisease2K.htm.
nc
Nope no links, but maybe they will leave the typed part in. Well, I will try leaving out the www