Dealing w/PHANTOM ITCH as an amputee

Mirror therapy! Saw that in a House episode 10 years ago.

hell nah I got an itch in the corner of my eye I'm not slapping myself

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I learned about phantom limbs by stephen king (Duma Key) and now im very interesting in how it works when theres nothing left

Dios te bendiga amen!

Use a mirror , reflect your full leg and scratch

It's all in your head. The brain registers a signal of what isn't there.

“Are bodies are pretty cool” (our brain making us want to itch something that isn’t even there😈)

What ever works!!! I can only understand what an amputee goes through!!! Great ingenuity on trying to itch your prosthetic to telieve the phantom itch!!!

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Is it tricking the brain or is your brain just correcting itself

Can only be found to be effective by the actual amputees. Won’t get information from a brochure in the doctors office.

Look up Lymph Nodes on Wiki.

There you'll see a rendering, a 3D medical animation showing lymph nodes that are enlarged.

Read—hot with pain. Swollen. Impacted with fluid, now no drainage.

We think of lymph nodes in the neck and groin, lymph nodes are everywhere …and they —were —connected to form a system.

There’s a commercial product, lymphocare that has an excellent formula of light oils. When I used it for the first time, knees, and behind the knee…next morning, a furious itch behind the knee. As scratched, a lump half the size of a pea could be felt. Scratching brought it to skin surface,
From there, I gently massaged it..more oil please…

The body took it away over the course of the day, my leg felt lighter, I had less pain. It was a knob of debris….felt like it too. It was trapped, the oil brought it to the surface.

Try things. Write yourself an email, give it a dated picture. Mail it to yourself.

Make cotton round compresses of oil, there are many massage oils.

Choose a patch, thigh above the knee. See if an oil application works to soothe.

You’ve got something going, Footless. Has to b e team oriented, if you had several girlz over an Amputee Weekend, you could do information sharing.

Oh…a timeshare at a beach location…

Think of it…could be like a Christmas Cookie Exchange. Essential oils, fliers, printouts. Who needs a new, stylish right boot?
Invite a massage therapist and guest acupuncturist.

All of you….let the manufacturers know who and where you are….research assistant and trial tech….will do product evaluation,

Yeh, my dad is a below the knee amputee as well. He has "Phantom My sock is rolled up under my non-existent toes" (that's what my dad calls it)

I had a step grandfather that had to have one of his legs amputated as well. I think it was his left leg "I could be wrong". He got gangrene in it from a splinter and he had diabetes as well. He had to get it amputated around the knee or a little above it. Some times when I watch a video of yours I think of him. Even tho he wasn't my grandfather by blood he always was told me the truth and didn't believe in lying to me about where my sperm donor was unlike my grandmother did.

Try the mirror trick put your whole leg in front of a mirror so that it looks as of you have your other one and itch also should help with phantom pain

You made my leg itch

Years ago they used Kirlian Photography to photograph people and other things and it shows your Aura people with limbs removed and plants 🌱 with sections of leaves removed in the photos the missing sections came out in the photographs. So if your Aura still shows the missing parts then scratching the area may actually be working. We are connected NASA has Astronauts spit into a Petri dish 🧫 before leaving they connect this to monitors within seconds they get readings of the astronauts if they are under stress or anything it shows up on the monitoring with in seconds no matter how far away they are. They have also had people with missing limbs cramping and they dug up the limb straightening it out and the person’s pain was relived. Just because you think you know something doesn’t mean your right and what if it’s not tricking your brain. I haven’t had itching but I have had had my ankle getting cold below my stump a bunch of times holding and massaging the end of my stump has helped which wasn’t cold and the problems seem to happen less often afterwards

I absolutely hate the phantom itch. It is so Irritating lol

Damn even itch can be wireless now

If I’m wearing pants over my stump, and I have a phantom itch, I lightly scratch my pant leg

Well this didn't help me, sadly, none of these has worked for me, I have to smack my leg to get it to stop (MAYBE)

I wonder if it would work to take a fake leg (Like from a Mannequin), place it under a blanket where your leg would be and scratch it. You know like there was that experiment where people were made to believe that they were hit on the hand with a hammer but it wasn't actually their hand??? No?? Ok I don't think I'm making any sense XD Sorry

Mirror therapy iv been ant amputee for over 40 year. And that shit donsnt work when u have phantom pains smoke mary jane. Trust me it works and prevents it fome happening all the time.

Option 2 works best for me

I have chronic hives. I wish I could cure an itch just by scratching it.

Hi Jo! I found that actually rubbing my nubbin with my eyes closed until I feel like I got the right spot helps lol 😆

Would it work if you itched the spot on your prosthetic while itching the matching spot on your other leg?

I'm a recent BTK myself, waiting on my fitting for a leg, anything you can tell me about what I can expect?

Is like your brain is saying
"YO SIS WHERE THE HELL IS THE LEG?"
Scratch**scratch
"Oh OK there's a leg being scratched, all right, move on"

Why did my leg itch in the exact same spot you were pointing to?

does doing both of these at the same time help?

Can you scratch an area of the stump and get relief?

Woah interesting

Is mirror therapy what Dr. House did to fix that Canadian veteran’s chronic pain?

I saw a video by Donna Eden that talked about working with amputees and their energy to relieve pain and other sensation from a missing limb. The energy remains even after the limb is removed. Very interesting stuff! Hope this helps!

Just watching this made my leg itch.😵‍💫

Sometimes I have a leg itch that even though I itch it it won't go away. I figured out if I go above it and itch their it works, going around the leg like a itch ring seems to work best!

I get phantom itch too and it is THE WORST!

I have the same thing phantomitch sucks I can't confirm I had my toe amputated I f**** hate it it's like 3:00 in the morning and then boom my foot's itchy but then I realized that part of my foot isn't f**** there

You’re really cool! Thanks for making content teaching people about stuff like this!!

Curious question. Have you ever had phantom leg cramps?

How about scratching nothing while looking at your prosthetic so your brain actual haves the signals of being scratched and your eyes is trick your brain that’s phantom itch is being scratched?

You rock

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whats phantom itch?☺️

Oh, I saw an experiment where they had some people, put a silicone arm, made sure it looks like it's their real arm and hides one of the real arms. Then, they started massaging the silicone and the hidden arm, after that they smashed the silicone arm and a lot of the people actually claimed that they felt it or screamed.

I loss my leg with cancer

Just cut off the other leg so theres nothing to mirror.