Hi All, I was trying to find information on the neuropathic pain we are all experiencing since our TM attacks. I clump all the various problems such as cold/burning/numb/stiff/screaming skin (I think that covers most of it) under the term neuropathic pain. That is the term the Neurologist uses to describe all of it.
My neuropathic pain, including spasticity, is much worse right now but I know it is because of a combination of stress, doing too much, lack of sleep, too little physiotherapy-type exercise, too much walking, too long sitting, etc., etc. I'm sure we've all experienced some of these triggers but I'm having all of them at the same time. Re: allodynia, I was reading an article at http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article1614.html and am copying just a couple of sentences here. As we all know: "neuropathic pain is produced by damage to, or pathological changes in the peripheral or central nervous systems." "The hallmarks of neuropathic pain are chronic allodynia and hyperalgesia. Allodynia is defined as pain resulting from a stimulus that ordinarily does not elicit a painful response (eg. light touch). Hyperalgesia is defined as an increased sensitivity to a normally painful stimuli". It is quite a technical paper so I won't copy and paste anymore here but they do mention types of treatments that we all know about, i.e., Amitriptyline and Gabapentin (Neurontin). Regards. Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:20 PM Subject: [TMIC] allodynia I've looked up 'allodynia', but still don't really understand it. I've never heard of it before, and now 3 of you have just mentioned it. Can you give me an example of how it works? Sally
