Hi there. I am having a unique situation with my nerves and I just had a doctor mention maybe I have "Central Sensitization Syndrome" so I'm trying to learn more about it. My situation is this....I started noticing nerve issues with my teeth several years ago. What was supposed to be a couple of small fillings, ended up becoming root canals and crowns. The nerve in the tooth would get so mad, they would have to remove it.
Later we found if I took high does of NSAIDs for like 2 weeks the nerve would settle back down but it was too late by then. I thought it was a Diabetes thing, since I was newly diagnosed at the time. Figured my nerves were just more sensitive at that point. Now....a year later, I had a tooth crack at the root somehow so eventually we found the only way for this pain to stop was to remove the tooth (even though still good) with roots and nerve. After the implant went in and has been a year, I am still having a nerve issue in my mouth. It is not a tooth and it is no longer painful, as I've had the dentist and the surgeon check. EVERY day my gums, cheeks, teeth are irritated after a certain point in the day, chewing on cheek or clenching my teeth. I go to sleep and when I wake up....it's gone until later in the day.
There are other things that have now happened as well. If I get an injury to a body part, things then randomly hurt. I started with an overuse injury of my left thumb. Doc gave me a steroid injection which helped for awhile. Then I got an "overuse" injury on the inside of my elbow on the same arm which seemed to tag team with my thumb but randomly. Once the "overuse" part was mostly resolved then it moved up my arm to my shoulder. They thought maybe Thoracic Outlet Syndrome but everything is again random and not consistent now.
What really freaked me out was about a month ago, I let the doc give me another injection in my thumb joint (he said it was now arthritis in the joint) and the joint was so swollen, he couldn't get all the steroid in it. Later that night after all numbing wore off, I woke up with the most excruciating pain in my life. Every nerve in my left arm was set off and no pain pills (I took 4 throughout the night) and NSAIDS helped. I had two babies without meds and this was definitely worse. By 4am I was so exhausted, I held my arm to my body and forced myself to lay down. Fell into a stooper and when I woke up..........all nerve pain had receded. I kept waiting for it to come back but it was just sore from being poked. I have been looking but everything I can find talks about Neuropathy with Diabetes and this is not that.