The hard thing about figuring out what movements cause is pain is the need to stop doing EVERYTHING, get things calmed down and then slowly add activity back in one at a time. You have to be very methodical if there are a lot of possibilities. It also helps to add time increase in slowly. SOrt of like an elimination diet but for doing things.

This is how I figured out my saphenous neuritis which I feared was spread. I stopped everything and started up again about two weeks later. Turns out I was aggravating that nerve on the recumbent bike. My doctors couldn't figure out why my whole leg was buzzing. It was fluke that I figured it out because I had an injection in my foot and thought I should lay off everything and voila, the buzzing pain stopped. It had been going on for a year!

I have had about a 8 months of PT, and there does not seem to be anymore in my future... I had the surgery in Sept of last year and have been working on this since...

I luckily know what the triggers are for me, unfortunately, I do not have the use of my left arm to allow me to take it easy on my right arm, so I will constantly have flare ups. This is what I got into it with my ortho, before the block, I tried to explain to him, everything I do upsets the CRPS, because that arm has to be both left and right. Every time I go to bathroom, it has to reach around to pull my pants up, washing, shaving (luckily hair growth is less ), basically all my coping skills are triggers... ugh These have been honed for 41years, I do them without thinking, and pay a major price for it. The ortho now seems to get it... Why do they not just get it when you explain it, they have to have proof???

Thank you all, this forum is definitely a godsend!!!

It might mean you go for waxing, instead of shaving. And change the types of clothing and shoes you wear. Etc.

hehe I mean under arm... waxing that would be
I look like a monkey when I shave and put on deodorant because I cant do it with my left hand, I have to do it with right...

Luckily, the hair isn't growing like my left side, so it is easier, so something nice out of this...

With this pool therapy thing, not only did I need to get a new suit thanks to gaba gain, now I have to clear the hair from my legs! I've re-discovered Nair! If I put it on gently, it isn't so bad. Heaven forbid if I can't bend to reach my legs over my gaba belly!

That stuff is so toxic though.

Thankfully, I am blonde and never had much hair on my legs anyway. Once a month/6 weeks is all I need & I leave it on the minimum time. If I'm feeling okay and soaking, I can shave, otherwise I can't handle the increased pain from the razor and the balancing act when shaving my good leg.