Chronic Pain Conditions Can Lead to a Desperate Search for Relief

Your complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is in your left arm up into my neck. Typically a form of chronic pain that affects a leg or an arm, CRPS typically develops after a stroke, a heart attack, a surgery, or an injury. Some days even the slightest breeze hurts. It is why you wear long sleeves a lot. Even in the summer. When it is a high pain day, you do what you can to make it through. And while you hate telling someone you can do something and then canceling, this is sometimes the case. Pain medications help, but …

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