Woman living through pain of CRPS shares her emotional story

A Connecticut woman is doing her best to deal with that pain and push toward personal goals. She is a 17-year survivor of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), diagnosed after spraining her ankle as a senior in high school.

Kelly Considine, 34, is a jack of all trades. She’s an artist, a dog mom, and she’s also a chemistry teacher.

"I love painting, reading, crocheting. All of that keeps me busy,” Considine said.

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[urgatorb]

I have CRPS too and about to begin treatment at the SPERO Clinic which by all accounts has a VERY high track record of putting CRPS in full and permanent remission. It's located in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

[sundaysommers]

Dr.Tim Tollestrup in Las Vegas is one of a handful of chronic pain focused peripheral nerve surgeons trainwd hy Lee Dellon at Johns Hopkins. I could not walk for 25 years and had all the other symptoms 9f CRPS. He did a disconnect of the injured nerve that was causing my symptoms. I walked pain free the next day. You do not have to live with CRPS. It is a peripheral nerve injury. There is a solution. Happy to answer your questions.

[timdarr]

She is a very inspirational and motivated person that has been through hell and back and continues to help others. I have been dealing with this for 24 years and it has not been easy. I retired from my job after 26 years, in 2020 and went into the medical field so I could help others afflicted with this pain. Please take care and stay in touch.

[genericamerican]

*I have been to Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF. No help. Stanford threw me in a mental hospital, the mental hospital couldn’t help me so they wheelchaired me to a cab and sent me 400 miles home in pain. The doctors here say “we don’t have the resources because we are rural, you need to go to a bigger hospital”. I did. I have repeated this insanity for the last seven years since they took me off the medication I was doing well on. Not because it was best for me. I am just an incredible inconvenience now. UCLA neurosurgeon told me I need a cingulotomy. What have I done wrong? Neurologist just declined to see me, because they decided that they couldn’t do anything for me, without actually seeing me. They reviewed my file but didn’t seem that I have been blacking out since 2017… **_There is no help._*

[jeana]

I’m just so happy that you’re finding ways to get through this complex deviation of a disease, is very encouraging to me after fighting it for only 6 years myself. Thank you for helping raise $ to help with educating others, as well as helping to fund research & development!🎉🧡

[JellyBeankitten]

I just got diagnosed with this and I am relieved for years dioctors have been fobbing me off and treating me like I am just being a stupid attention seeking woman, I am exhusted with having fighting to get to be taken seriously.

[janicebray]

None of my friends, family, and the healthcare system understands what I'm going through, I wish they did. Moreover, no one in my social circle understands what I am trying to cope with. I love them all with all my heart. How can they understand? years, CRPS and stalked for three years. What a nut case?

[Vanderring]

Wish doctors wouldn’t dismiss what they don’t know. If they just listen. They just prescribe Gabapentin and nerve block and ignore you.

[zachd]

I also deal with CRPS, but I'm Type 2. MMJ really helps

[BlitheApathy]

I can't count how many times doctors *an even family* called me an opioid druggy before I got the dreaded diagnosis, but at least I knew what was happening. But even now my father thinks it's a made-up disease by those who just don't want to work.

[mw]

I declare in Jesus name you no longer have a Crps nor the pains Amen 🙏!

[ezza]

The pain is coming from ur brain just try to relax