Nurse:why do bullet inflicted sci's seem to have more neuro pain?

[barondidit]

just wondering because mine is horrible, 24-7 from injury site to toes. and i was shot. t-10 complete. 3.5 years post. i was also wondering if you could expain why i have a numbness that goes down my side from just below my arm pit(where the sci bullet entered) to my point of no feeling(around my belly button. ITS REALLY strange to me.
thanks for any help
peace!
Baron

[CapnGimp]

I ain't no nurse but I dated one once, lol.
That numb streak is most likely due to nerve damage caused by the bullet severing a nerve/nerves. I have various numb areas on different parts of my body due to nerves damaged in previous injuries pre-sci.

I knew a few sci from bullet wounds in Houston and they actually had no neuro pain, both exercised a lot though.

I think yours seems worse because you were shot by a sissy from a preppy town for no reason :p

John

[David Berg]

I haven't seen anything that indicates bullet wounds necessarily cause more neuro pain. Just thinking off the top of my head, but is there a chance that the "shock effect" of the bullet could cause some "interesting" damage to nearby nerves? At any rate, unfortunately plenty of people get pain from nerve damage from plenty of causes. The "big three" for central pain, at least in my experience from people I've had contact with, are SCI, stroke, and MS.

[barondidit]

the only reason i mentoned it was because KLD had said this in a nother post recently,

[David Berg]

KLD would be much more qualified than me about this, so I'll bow to her wisdom.