ask: Where can I find information about thalamic pain syndrome?
I have numb first 3 fingers on my right hand and also loss of feeling down the shin of my right leg. The leg has been numb since April and I lost the feeling in my fingers in July. My fingers are also very hypersensitive. After having an MRI of my head, they have decided I've had a TIA of the thalamus, thus causing the thalamic pain syndrome. I would like to find as much information as possible so I can try and understand this and also decide if this is what is going on with me.
Thank you
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Hi Kygal,
Thank you for your question and I am sorry to hear about your pain. I found some great informational sources for you. Here are a few:
Pain Clinic Org
http://www.painclinic.org/nervepain-centralpoststrokepain.htm
Here is some info from the National Library of Medicine
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2485464/
Health Central
http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/h/thalamic-pain-syndrome-treat...
I hope these help to answer your questions. Please feel free to contact us for further details.
Missie
December 12, 2010 - 10:39amThis Comment
Hi Missie,
Thanks for the links you provided. It's really hard to tell from some of the articles I've found and will probably have to wait till I get a referral to the stroke clinic the doctor wants to send me to. But, there's no denying that I had a TIA in the thalamus region. When that happened, who knows.....and I'm not sure there's any way of knowing. Thanks again.
Mary
December 13, 2010 - 8:11am