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Pain Diary
Dr. Towfigh:
I was reading some research by renowned Pain Management Specialist Dr. Forest Tennant regarding centralized pain. He was saying that the time limit to prevent pain from peripheral nerve injury from becoming centralized is 6-weeks. His belief is that if the nerve injury is not cured within this time frame, the pain will centralize and then no longer be curable.
I know that the research you and other Doctors have done on post-herniorrhaphy neuralgia usually states that patients should wait 6-months to 1-year prior to reoperation to resect the damaged nerves. I just wanted to mention what I found from Dr. Tennant, as it may be a basis for moving up the 6-month to 1-year timeline to prevent pain from centralizing as it obviously has in my case.
That said, I know that I am kind of an oddball, because it appears that most of the patients you have helped recover from post-herniorrhaphy nerve damage have not had the centralization problem. I guess I am just one of the unlucky ones 🙁
