CRPS

New Year Resolutions for CRPS Warriors

If you are reading this and you have CRPS I want to tell you that you are a warrior. Those who have CRPS know that every day is a struggle. To do simple tasks and maintaining a life without pain every day is challenging. Our mental health often suffers. I want you to know that I understand these challenges because I am walking in the same journey.

As I ring in the New Year, I want to make some resolutions for wellness. My goal is to adopt a healthier lifestyle by incorporating regular physical exercise. So I built a little gym in my garage complete with all the equipment that I will need. I also plan on improving my nutrition by adopting an anti-inflammatory diet. Ultimately, my resolution is to become a better version of myself.

I want to go back to work in 2025, but this time I want to make sure that I reduce my stress level. This is to ensure the disease doesn’t take over my life again.

As strange as it is, I feel blessed walking on this journey. I am resolved that CRPS is a part of my life but it doesn’t have to take over my life. What do you plan to do this year to improve yourself?

The Connection Between CRPS and Cognitive Fatigue

Every day, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) delivers a myriad of symptoms. They are never the same, but they are all too familiar. Like the feeling when CRPS is spreading to an unaffected area and the fear that causes. the constant feeling of pain throughout the body

I have been battling severe fatigue lately. The type that is so overwhelming it affects your memory. I mentioned to my doctor that I felt as if I might be experiencing dementia. I have been doing things that are very much not like me for example leaving the stove on. Leaving the water running from the backyard hose. My brain searching and struggling to find basic words. My doctor said that she believed that inflammation is the cause. That once we get the inflammation reduced I will feel much better.