Originally Posted by glenntaj

--but relevant given what enbloc talks about.

Many who suffer from stroke, especially of the spinothalamic tracts, may wind up with a condition known as central pain syndrome, also known as Dejerine–Roussy syndrome or thalamic pain syndrome.


In this condition, damage to the sensory processing center in those central nervous system tracts can cause an intractable pain syndrome in many parts of the body that feels very much lie the severe neural pain of small-fiber neuropathy--burning, shooting, electrical.

Stroke is the most common cause of this syndrome--and often, in stroke, the syndrome produces unilateral symptoms, depending on the side the stroke occurs on--but this can also be caused by multiple sclerosis (in fact, it is thought to be the main neural pain generator in those MS patients with neural pain), subacute degeneration from B12 deficiency, infectious inflammation of the area, epilepsy, trauma, or even sometimes Parkinson's.

The prevalence of the condition is disputed--many think it is rather underdiagnosed--but it is still something to look into if one has had any of these occurrences.

There are a number of sites to look at about this, but here's a good start:

Central Pain Syndrome Foundation << You Are Not Alone