hello, my mom had her leg amputated a year and a half ago eerything that could go wrong did go wrong she is still inconstant agony THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG ! But at this point it seems that the doctors have deemed her a drug fiend instead of finding the cause of the pain Please help
Hello, Welcome, and thanks for sharing your concern I went through your query, and I feel, you need to understand the cause of stump pain first. There are two types of stump pain mainly,1 Neuroma pain- it's a shooting pain sensation severe in consistency, and occurs on touching the stump. It occurs because formation of neuroma occurs at he cut end of the nerves. The solution are either desensitization therapy, or neuroma excision and buried in deep tissue surgically.2 The second type of pain is what is called as Phantom limb sensation and pain, here is the cortical part of brain that represented the amputee part causes false sensation of the limb in place and it's paining, this is quite hard to correct type of pain, and require more of psychological help rather than any surgical help. Before you consider these, please rule out stump infection as the cause of pain. I hope my advice would have been useful, in decision-making regarding your treatment, still if you have any clarifications or doubts feel free to contact back. Thanks.