Getting your head around neuropathic pain

Do you have post-herpetic neuralgia? Diabetic neuropathy? Phantom pain? Neuropathic pain is weird pain – people describe it as tingling, sharp, electric shocks, numbness, burning, hot, cold, random and intermittent pain. There are three major types of neuropathic pain depending on where the problem lies in the nervous system (this is a very, very simplified…