CRPS -The suicide disease - Alana share's her story

Send us Fan MailCRPS is the kind of chronic pain that destroys your vocabulary first. How do you explain a body that feels like it’s on fire, like glass is ripping at your skin, while the world around you still expects you to “push through”? Charles Mattocks sits down with Alana to put honest words to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and to show what the day-to-day fight really looks like when relief is temporary and the next appointment is always looming. We talk about the moment Alana’s symptoms appeared overnight, the misdiagnoses that followed, and the brutal math of waitlists in the Canadian healthcare system. That delay sent her searching for options like ketamine infusions in Florida, comparing protocols, weighing risk, and trying to avoid invasive procedures that can make CRPS worse. She breaks down what helps, what harms, and the long-term side effects people don’t warn you about enough, including short-term memory loss and severe abdominal “K cramps.” We also go beyond pain management into caregiver support, marriage, mental health, and the complicated reality of staying hopeful when you’re living out of a suitcase for treatment. Alana shares why emerging paths like neridronate treatment in Italy and biomarker-focused, whole-body care feel like a real light after years of band-aid solutions. If you care about chronic pain awareness, patient advocacy, and changing a system that keeps overlooking suffering, hit play, share this with someone who needs it, and subscribe, rate, and review so more people can find these stories.