Does A Tattoo Injure Crps Type Ii

09-15-2010, x:09 AM

I just was told that i cannot finish or become whatever new tattoos bc of the crps and the chances of it spreading. i am and then scared bc information technology has moved from my side of my human foot, to my ankle,now my toe...and i have pains going up my leg, and inmy knee...and i desire to ignore the pains in my other leg completely.

anyone have anything like this. ive been out of work over a year now...have a instance going, was merely diagnosed with tmj at present...only likewise much. i want my life back. really was excited near getting a tattoo to brand me happy...

can't do much daily, accept tried volunteering, merely cannot article of clothing closed toed shoes...permit alone my sandals barely, now...information technology's but freaking me out!

i am waiting for work comp to approve the trial scs, bc my dr, dr prager at ucla said that he is hesitant of the ketamine injections bc of my past psych. history.

help if anyone has whatever answers...oh, and taking lyrica

thanks

sorry my keyboard is messed up

mindy

01-03-2011, 01:01 PM

hey.

i sympathise that situation that you lot're in with the wanting to get a new tattoo, and the crps holding you lot dorsum. from what i've read, and been told, information technology is a huge possibility that getting a tattoo could cause a huge burst and fifty-fifty for the crps to spread to that location on your body. and with tattoos the ink is injected just under the skin, but above the muscle, which i've been told could cause the crps to get into that tiny little space, and not much can assistance that.
i take my one tattoo on the right side of my ribcage, and accept always wanted to become my 2d one up the dorsum of my left leg. but my crps started in my left leg/foot and has spread up the left side of my body to my arm and hand, etc. and so getting the tattoo that i want on my dorsum of my left leg just seems like a stupid thought for me. even though in some ways, i desire to get it because it would be similar i'g taking ownership of my leg back, if that makes any sense. like i'1000 adding something to my leg that i want on it, that i can control, unlike the pain and other changes. i'm really non certain if that makes whatsoever sense at all. :due south
i'chiliad non sure if you wanted to become into more than detail about this, merely you said a little chip about the ketamine and the doc non wanting to do information technology because of past psych history... what exactly are you lot meaning by that. considering a lot of psych problems can be dealt with, to assistance you lot out, and likewise to let the doctor experience comfy with other treatments.
i hope this helps you out a little bit, and i'1000 effectually to talk if you want to talk about anything at all.
take care.

ashley

01-03-2011, 02:03 PM

Ashley,
WOW- that was astonishing- I want to hug you correct at present and then here is a virtual hug-ooooooooooo!

Well,
I am 32 years old. Here is the story. Information technology is a bit long, so I hope y'all accept a chair-and you are comfortable. I have been through a lot, to say the least. I hateful, lots of trauma. In '95 I was hospitalized at a psych ward and at that fourth dimension they diagnosed me which was kind of crazy for something that I didn't have. Just, my records show some disengagement, schizophrenaform, blah blah apathetic. I DO NOT HAVE THIS...at all!!! Non even shut!!! I accept what normal people have having gone through all the trauma I accept-it is called PTSD. Anyway...been dealing with life pretty darn well if I must say so myself, therapy, psychiatrists, managing, working up to 70 hours a calendar week at times, doing restaurant management which is hard to say the least...but I LOVED...LOVE...LOVED...LOVE information technology! Aye, for almost thirteen years I did that...until this ridiculous accident in 09, July 21st 09...BAM this burn extinguisher came downward on my right heel/human foot, and that was the cease of that!

Since so, ugh...I get sad thinking about it, only wow...when I 1st heard perhaps I might accept RSD/CRPS and saw my dad's face...and he said, "Oh, I hope non", I at present empathize! My heart seriously goes out to anyone who has this! As you know, non treated...it gets worse...and this is what is happening. So, I have a principal care physician, who I am changing thank god, a CRPS specialist at UCLA- DR PRAGER- who is amazing, and my attorney who is great. If I could have my life back, and not get whatever $$$...hand it over! Thank god for my parent'due south and unrelentless (I retrieve that's the discussion?) support from my friend...because I wouldn't be here. I am fighting bc I know work comp wants me to just give up!

They like to deny, deny, deny! Currently, I am fighting to get this spinal cord stimulator with the 4 week extensive plan at UCLA which volition include ketamine infusions, biofeedback, physical therapy, etc etc etc!

In the meantime, my crps that began in my heel, spread to my toe, ankle, up my leg, into my left leg, all the way to my right arm, hand. My right side is so weak it is lamentable. I tin can barely hold hands with a homo I had to take unexpected surgery on my toe, which might be related to all of this, don't have biopsy results yet...and tried to utilize a crutch for one 24-hour interval, and couldn't

Me...miss exercise, physical, restaurant managing director, I can't do anything! I am living with my parents because I tin can't drive I was driving with my left foot, but fifty-fifty that became too painful, so I just gave upwardly

I have no more freedom---I'm trapped...

It's foreign. I was diagnosed with this rare condition/disease chosen Vestibulitis in 98 and in 99 had surgery for information technology. Well, it came back with a vengeance. At that time I said...I will not permit information technology control me, or my life. And...I didn't!!!! I worked through information technology-literally.

This crps is so debilitating...drains me out, when I don't do anything !!!!
I'1000 so sensitive. Today, those spasms most fabricated me tell my parents we couldn't consume breakfast at the eatery because I just couldn't become comfortable I fought through it because I didn't want to ruin it for them!

I promise this is all making sense!

I wish in that location was an answer to it all...I really practice! I am across depressed...

And, regarding the tattoos- well, maybe one day I volition get to finish mine, and do a memorial tattoo for my best friend/ex boss who passed away in 09.

Nosotros all demand to just go on to grin at least one time a day

Then....here

I know I ranted, sad.

It's hard...and only we empathize each other.

Lots of hugs,
Mindy

01-04-2011, 04:34 PM

Wow, I am actually glad that you replied and am totally okay with yous sharing all that. I don't have it as a rant, I remember it's just that sometimes we become so filled up with all this stuff that nosotros don't know how to share, or can't share with some people, then when we discover someone nosotros can actually talk to, we simply blurt it all out. I've done that myself numerous times.

As to the psych stuff, I believe that if you find a practiced doctor, they volition not intendance about all the stuff in your past. Because I've been through all the psych stuff when I was a teenager and early 20s and was diagnosed with i thing after some other, and on meds and seeing counsellors and being hospitalised and bla bla bla. And have now come to realise that I was just reacting to all the **** that had gone on in my life and around me. Not on any meds for moods or depression or annihilation at all, and haven't been since but earlier I injured myself and got crps. (Today is exactly 4 years since my original snowboard injury )

Take care.

Ashley

02-06-2011, 08:46 AM

Hey, how long have you lot had it? What is the severity? I don't know if information technology is truthful or not? I realllly want to stop mine, and get one other...then I will be done- hahahaha! That's what I say-right! Just, I did merely get canonical finally after 1 1/2 yrs for the trial spinal cord stimulator, so maybe at present I tin get my tat finished. Mine began in my right foot from a piece of work comp injury, and has spread, or is spreading to my left leg, and correct arm/hand. Hopefully this scs will prevent all that from happening.

Since my tattoo is in the middle of my upper back, I am afraid to accept it there. Your response got me all excited! Maybe I really can terminate it?

I am curious at present about your story! If y'all wouldn't heed telling me more than, I would love to know.

Thanks and hugs.

Mindy

02-06-2011, 09:22 AM

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I am so distressing! Well, I take constant hurting, accept had ten lumbar sympathetic blocks which really haven't done anything except perchance given me some feeling dorsum in my pes temporarily. I am really putting a lot of organized religion dorsum into this scs! I meet a doc who specializes in RSD/CRPS at UCLA our here in Los Angeles, CA...Dr. Joshua Prager. People come from all over to come across him. He is pretty advanced with his knowledge, however...I don't believe any dr. actually knows what they are doing 100% and I think my case is very atypical of course...grrrrrrrrr.

If you accept any other questions, you tin enquire me. I accept been going through a lot, non only physically, but psychologically as well of class. Not working is non fun.

I say taking care of ourselves is #1.

Take care, I'm always here for you if y'all demand to ask a question, of just say hello. I'll let you know how the scs goes.

Mindy

02-07-2011, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by lindisease View Post

Cheers I actually appreciate that. I dont have an income or insurance considering i was fired for from my task for this. My girlfriend went from existence financially set to pay check to paycheck lifestyle because of me. I'1000 lucky to take her but wish sometimes she would only take a break from my RSD. She reads nonstop all day virtually RSD and sends me to doctors that seem to accept some knowledge but they always google it correct in front of us. pretty much tells me they dont know what they are dealing with. I am told hurting medicines are not an option and that i need to discover a style to deal with the pain mentally and they treat me as if i have arthritis. only med they put me on for pain is mobic. At first i believed them that opioid pain meds were not used to care for any form of CP and then i tried the non-narcotic approach which is very tough. i only desire my life back. I had to limit my college to one class per semester because i tin can't sit still or concentrate. i buy lortab off the street on school days now. I accept to risk being taken to jail just then i tin can concentrate at school and have somewhat of a normal day. I know narcotics are bad for me and i know i can get dependant on them but that is the bad in them the good in them is much greater than the bad i exercise believe personally. i would rather have them and do my physical therapy to try and go it in remission and worry almost the addiction when that time comes. i hateful there are rehabs for it and other medication to lower the effects of withdrawls. RSD is much more painful than withdrawls and RSD cant just get away on its ain over a course of a couple weeks without therapy but withdrawls go abroad on there ain after a couple weeks of being off them. Am i crazy for wanting to take a narcotic for my hurting? Are the doctors correct that it is non an option? i accept read on many sites where they apply opioid meds to help with RSD pain. Yet my doctors have never stumbled across it. I havent e'er asked a DR for narcotics simply i'one thousand going to now. Fifty-fifty though i have never mentioned them, my doctors however lecture me about them as if i had inquired about it. they characterization me a drug addict before they even come across me.

I did non realize you accept CP every bit well? So you have CP and CRPS? Or is information technology just CRPS? We have to assistance ourselves sometimes. I tried all kinds of the drugs they wanted me too, just considering I am working with piece of work comp, so they take to pay for anything my pain specialist-Dr. Prager recommends. I also encounter a psychiatrist so he was prescribing me my pain pills, as Dr. Prager says that all those opiates really don't help people with CRPS...they only assist to relax y'all. He is right, the same with MM in that sense. I wanted it then bad because afterwards trying Gabapentin/Neurontin, Lyrica, Cymbalta (which does aid a lot of people) and having a very high dosage of Percuset after goose egg else helped in agony...I went for medicinal stuff...and that doesn't help either, and then I am on absolutely nothing.

Tomorrow I will hopefully accept some relief- I but promise so. You said it correct, I detest that people have to live with us through this, information technology is very frustrating.

Practiced luck to you. It would be nice if you could perhaps find a practiced doctor, or raise some money to come out here-road trip! Fundraiser? What about family? I don't know...just some options...

Concord your head high, and keep walking with your feet frontwards, and don't requite upward!

Mindy- hugs

02-08-2011, 04:12 PM

I say practise it...I first got rsd in head/face at present its running rampant...and then, what..I got 2 microderms on neck -snake bite- Voo Doo Godsmack..thats my RSD..simply bad VOO DOO...and one in nose to remind me NEVER to practice OPIATES...I am designing my Upper Body Tattoo Mural..When they dig upwardly my body in 100 years......they will know just where I have been...no questions merely have to effigy out meaning....mayhap I will coffin a note with self that explains my mural, cuz by that fourth dimension Humans will be lazy and wont become information technology......

God if I merely had a body.....you merely dont know the things I could do......I beloved body fine art! I ve allow my daughter and son both express themselves...but not overly..just inside good sense of taste....daughter does not await like tramp and son does not look similar hoodster...

Go Your Tatt on or Piercing ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peace,
Kim