Ami is more used to help you sleep, bet you have to take it at night ?, the only trouble with this is until used to it it makes you zombie like, in any meaningful dose.
Pain management has come a long way in recent years, people that were previously regarded as loonies and having pains that weren't there are now taken seriously.
There is a major study into CRPS, complex regional pain syndrome, and the brains reactions to this and other pains, the duck/rabbit test and the dot in a cube test are just pictures that when looked at by 64% of people with CRPS had a worsening of pain(substantiated by brain scans), the pain of looking at these pictures meant most had to turn away as the pain got so bad!!
32% had blood flow reduced in one of their arms, in the other arm it went up, 40% described the cube as flipping so many times they couldn't keep up counting, some had muscle spasms and sweating, others with OA and RA had no difference to the pictures!!
All in the Arthritis Today autumn 2010 publication.
My pain also stemmed for a accident in 83 a hit and run drink driver left me for dead, in a coma 3 weeks, 19 months in hospital, broken L femur(3 places), R femur(2 places, open fracture), L tib and fib 2 breaks each(open), 2 splits in pelvis, spinal compressions, both clavicles, 3 ribs, sternum, R humerus, elbow broken apart now limited movement to 65 degrees, bits were dug out the tree I was slammed against but couldn't be used, lump missing off my brain left side enlarged irregular mishapen left ventricle in brain, apart from that I was ok, I had a GCS of 3, in normal language brain dead, can't breathe move etc, WEST SUFFOLK hospital are gods as far as I am concerned.
You MUST get to the pain management centre, meditation and certain martial arts helps enormously I did Puch Mae for 12 years but ability to adopt a different outlook on life helps also.
tabetha