Walked Out On Doctor

[Justmehere]

This seems to be working, I can walk again. I have heard horrible things about the injections and how they are pushed on patients, much like surgery is pushed by surgeons.

Gosh, in light of all you are doing and your improvement, your podiatrist sounds lazy... Smart to be careful with the injections too! They are intense procedures. I think you made a great choice to walk away. :)

Would you mind telling me what therapies you tried? I am starting emdr, but I'm thinking about somatic therapy, too. I don't know if emdr will help this and I am afraid to bring anything new up as I am already dealing with enough. Thanks again.

Dr Scarer's website is here: Link Removed. He explains

I actually had the chance to work with a physical therapist who worked with Dr Scarer several years ago. In the trauma informed physical therapy relm, I did reflex relaxation, myofacial release, PRRT (primal reflex release technique), etc. - basically a lot of types of work that helped to get my brain and body talking to each other more (which I didn't think was a province but somehow helped a lot) and to get the physical component of the trauma to finally work itself through, instead of staying stuck and hurting so badly. Some of it didn't work for me, some of it just seemed strange, but it all worked about as well as the nerve blocks did and got me from barley being able to move to doing short triathlons again.

EMDR is actually one of the therapies Dr Scarer and (other trauma informed pain med professionals) recommend. It made me too dissociative, but if it works for you, it's a great option to try. I was able to use it to directly reduce some of the the CRPS pain in the sort run. It is smart to be hesitant about stirring up too much at once.

I found more success for myself personally with doing the deeper trauma work doing a couple of variations of somatic experiencing than EMDR, but I have known others with CRPS that found relief with EMDR alone.

Gosh I sound like a huge Dr Scarer fan after being such a skeptic and still so skeptical of everything... But he's not selling any particular technique of his own -he really focuses on approaches that are already out there and helps people understand the connection between trauma and CRPS.

I hope you continue to find what works for you and things keep getting better! Good work for listening to what you knew you didn't need. :)

 

[Broken Dahlia]

Gosh, in light of all you are doing and your improvement, your podiatrist sounds lazy... Smart to b...

Thank you @Justmehere, I have been working hard, especially once the injections were mentioned. I will talk to my physical therapist, he seems like a mental health counselor at times. He said I was dissociating from my leg too much, and I realized that he was right- I referred to it as a block of wood that I had to drag around with me. He did mirrorbox therapy one time, but I think what helped the most was when he told me that if a tiger was loose that I would be able to run away, and would do so without thinking about it. Something clicked, he knew I could, and finally so did I. His approach is so different from the other physical therapists I know, and he is always teaching me something new.
Nothing wrong with being a fan, I feel the same way about Gavin de Becker, Brene Brown, and Alice Miller. I'm excited to learn more, thank you so much. I might hit you up with more questions, though, hope you don't mind.

 

[Justmehere]

That sounds like an excellent PT! Feel free to ask me any questions anytime. I may not have any answers, but I don't mind questions at all. :) You mentioned some other great authors... I'm reading through Brene Brown myself right now. :)