Hey Gang,

So, I recently had another appointment with my pain management doctor and ultimately realized I ended up a bit confused (sometimes it's so hard, as they're in and out before you have time to ask the questions you need to). Anyway, I'm hoping some of you here can clarify things for me a bit.

The doc thinks that they've identified a nerve that is injured in my foot, which may have triggered the original CRPS and might be the cause for continued symptoms. Basically, he thinks I have a "traction" injury to my superficial peroneal nerve. As a result, the nerve is firing non-stop pain signals, which in turn has caused the slow evolution of CRPS (coldness, sweating, pain elsewhere in the foot unrelated to the nerve, pain in the other foot, etc).

He's going to do some diagnostic blocks on the peroneal nerve to see if it eliminates the pain. What I'm unsure of is what happens if that's successful. Does identifying the broken nerve mean they can operate on it, or burn it away, or silence it somehow and thus eliminate the CRPS? I'll totally take a little numbness or loss of sensation over the pain!

Anyway, here's hoping it's a good thing and that this might be a solution!

Also -- on another note -- I had the *best* day yesterday I've had in a long time. Feet felt really good all day. Then, of course, I get home to make dinner and after cooking a great meal for myself and sitting down to eat the pain comes on with a vengeance! Is it always this random, where you can gave good times and then bam, out of no where you're struggling to endure?