I understand what you are saying. I am an above-knee amputee. I lost my leg in Vietnam over 50 years ago and have had phantom pain every day since then except for days when I use pain medicine which is getting very hard to get. Of course at my age now I have many other pain problems some of them related to the amputation. In the army hospital, I was on an amputee ward which helped me to adjust. Some guys had pain like me and some did not. At that time no one knew much about phantom pain and even now I don't think they know very much more. Good luck. 19lin