January of this year. While she was in plaster for five weeks she did

have a lot of discomfort with as she said the plaster being to tight.

Three times she had to get the plaster removed because of it being to

tight. I would say myself that while she was in the plaster maybe her

hand was swelling each time and of course this would cause the plaster

to feel too tight. But the hospital thought nothing of it and just kept

changing the plaster. When she did get the plaster taken off she started

a course of physiotherapy. This was going on for over four months and

doing her no good.

The problem is her hand is very hot all the time. She went

to a chiropractor recently because a friend had asked her to try it. She

has had over 15 trips to the chiropractor and it really is getting no

better. She now has frozen shoulder as well. She has not driven since

the accident which is a big drawback for her. She is now at her wits

ends because the pain and the burning in her hand is driving her mad.

She is not a person that believes in painkillers she has taken some but

a lot of them worked against her. She also has a course of block

injections.

She has been told by the hospital (Cork University Hospital)

that there is no cure for her complaint and it is something she will

have to live with. I find that very hard to believe. She has been

diagnosed with Chronic Pain Syndrome. But to me that could mean a

thousand one things. She asked them could she get an MRI done and they

told her an MRI would not show up anything they do not know already. Now

Doctor what I want to ask you would an MRI show up something they could

be missing. I have enclosed some images of her hand. It’s her right hand

is the problem. She is a left handed person.

The accident happened when she was ice skating. Would I be

correct in saying that when it happened that the shock went up through

her arm and onto her shoulder and maybe while they were concentrating on

her fractured wrist they could have missed something by not looking at

her whole arm

I was very interested in reading your article on Neuropathy pain. Could it be my wife is somehow allergic?

to sugar because she can drink around 20 cups of tea per day with 2 ½ spoons of sugar per cup.

Kind Regards

Neil Carroll

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