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Angie Heuser shares her personal experience with phantom pain as an above-knee amputee, discussing its triggers and coping strategies.

Understanding the Types, Triggers, and Coping Strategies     What if the most intense pain you’ve ever felt came from a part of your body that no longer exists? As an above-knee amputee, phantom pain is one of the most difficult parts of my journey to explain. It’s invisible. It’s unpredictable. And unless you’ve experienced it yourself, it’s almost impossible to fully understand. Yet for many amputees, it becomes a reality we learn to navigate every day.     On this episode of the BAWarrior Podcast, I pull back the curtain on phantom pain and share my personal experience living with it over the last several years. From the constant burning and tingling sensations that feel like a foot trapped in a vice grip, to the sudden stabbing pains that can stop me in my tracks, phantom pain has taught me more about resilience than I ever expected.     I talk openly about what these sensations feel like, how they can affect daily life, and the emotional toll they can take when they strike unexpectedly. I also share my experience undergoing a revision surgery and AMI procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital, where surgeons discovered a foreign object near my…

People in this episode

Host: Angie Heuser

Topics covered

• phantom pain
• amputation
• resilience
• coping strategies
• personal experience

Keywords

• phantom pain
• amputee
• pain management
• surgery
• emotional toll

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Massachusetts General Hospital

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