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November is CRPS Month. Show your orange & black this month to support CRPS awareness.
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What is CRPS? CRPS is a neuropathic pain disease. How do you get it? You get it from injury or surgery. Can anyone get it? Mostly females but some men do suffer from it as well. Children can also get it. How does it affect the body? CRPS affects the +
limbs the most. It can travel to other limbs as well. It affects muscles. You can have muscle spasms/tremors. You can have muscle weakness. It affects blood vessels. Your skin can change colors: purple, green, blue & black. It gives you inflammation. The affected limb can +
become swollen. It affects the nerves more than anything. Your nerves become overactive causing everything to become painful. It affects hair & nail growth. Your nails & hair on the affected limbs will grow slower or stop growing altogether. The hair on your head might start +
to fall out as well. The nails on the affected limbs might also become discolored.
What does it feel like?
It feels like you’re being burned alive from the inside out. It feels like you’re being electrocuted. It feels like you’re being stabbed. It feels like you’re being +
What does it feel like? It feels like you’re being burned alive from the inside out. It feels like you’re being electrocuted. It feels like you’re being stabbed. It feels like you’re being +
shot. It feels like your limb isn’t attached to your body but at the same time is frozen. It feels like a dull ache. It feels like a sharp pain. It feels like your limbs are being torn off your body from the inside out. It can sometimes feel like all of that at once if your +
CRPS affects multiple areas.
What triggers these feelings?
Touch. Vibrations from car engines or stereo speakers. Anything cold for some people. For others it’s anything hot. Certain textures. Example: cotton vs silk vs wool. Touching water. Movement. Wind.
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What triggers these feelings? Touch. Vibrations from car engines or stereo speakers. Anything cold for some people. For others it’s anything hot. Certain textures. Example: cotton vs silk vs wool. Touching water. Movement. Wind. ++
What treatments are available? Physical Therapy is the first step for CRPS treatment but you have to catch it early. Mirror therapy. Desensitization therapy. Opioids. Anti inflammatory pills. Infusions. Aqua therapy. SSRIs & beta/alpha blockers can sometimes help certain +
people. Sympathetic nerve blockers. Spinal cord stimulators. Every body is different so sometimes things work, sometimes they don’t.
How can you tell when you have CRPS?
After an injury or surgery when the pain of healing lasts longer than it should. Your body will +
How can you tell when you have CRPS? After an injury or surgery when the pain of healing lasts longer than it should. Your body will +
be able to tell you when something is wrong or off.
Just please be patient with CRPS sufferers. We are doing our best. Please be careful of what to say because some things can be offensive. Here is a list of what you should & shouldn’t say so you don’t run into +
Just please be patient with CRPS sufferers. We are doing our best. Please be careful of what to say because some things can be offensive. Here is a list of what you should & shouldn’t say so you don’t run into +
that problem. We get tired a lot. It gets lonely. Even doing just the smallest things get tiresome. The constant pain negatively affects your mental & emotional state to a great degree. If we get depressed or emotional please be patient with us. It’s not your fault. It’s the +
pain. A lot of sufferers can’t even afford the proper treatments we need such as infusions. I am currently holding a fundraiser to help pay for mine. You can donate here: https://twitter.com/pleasingsan/status/1319482316066963456
To help others you can donate here: https://www.burningnightscrps.org/crps-rsd-support/donations/
Please help spread CRPS awareness by showing your orange & black.
NOTE*** the gofundme was linked to the wrong page. This is the proper link. The paypal link is still correct. https://twitter.com/miranhwa/status/1319524499017052160
https://twitter.com/miranhwa/status/1319524499017052160
