Stanford Hospital's Dr. Ian Carroll on Nerve Pain

My wife died 3 weeks ago after 4 years of struggling with this pain and how it took both its physical and emotional toll on her. I wish I would ha e found this years ago. We searched and searched. God bless you Sir for all you are doing to help people and give them hope.

I’d rather lose an arm than live in the daily pain I’ve had for 12 years. CRPS has robbed me of any sort of normalcy of a life. This doctor seems to actually care about his patient. ✨ I see most of us here are in pain so here’s a gentle hug 🤗 for you as you scroll. You’re not alone 💞

I'm a chronic nerve pain person, too. I just want to say thank you for articulating the experience so well. To be not just believed but validated is a pretty wonderful feeling. Be kind to people, even when you don't understand their experience. Nobody would seek out this life, like a pauper-hermit, just to get out of going to work, I promise you.

8 minutes in and I'm nearly in tears. I wish I had found a doctor with your understanding. I've dealt with chronic pain for over 20 years.

This is an intelligent, articulate, compassionate individual! I've been dealing with arrogant Dr's, careless surgeons, malpractice, misdiagnosis, incorrect medications and permanent disabilities. Intentional discrepancies of facts by physicians and am now permanently dependent on a wheelchair at 53. I am now on a helpful regiment of medications but the breakthroughs pains of late are upwards of 8 to 9 on the Richter scale. I applaud EVERYONE who will speak up against the drug companies and thank God in heaven there are Dr's like this gem that are eilling to share this information! Thank you and I will share this information with everyone I can that are experiencing chronic pain. Especially those that aren't recieving this kind of treatment or acceptable relief! God bless!!!

I just was in the ER and honestly had a very traumatic experience not being taken seriously and having 4 doctors pin me down to sedate me. I was sent home and they didn’t even try to see what was wrong the doctor pressed my stomach once and I didn’t see her again. This is the validation I needed because what I felt was real and it really damaged a person when you ignore their pain

I too have never heard neuropathy explained in this way. I’m 54, and have had three back surgeries, discectomies from T-1 through L-5, and lamiectomies, with spinal fusion, at all levels. I’ve just never been free of nerve pain, even after the surgery. I’m a nurse, and continue to work full time, battling nerve pain every day. People just have no idea how bad nerve pain really is. Along with the nerve pain, I have numbness and tingling from my lower back to my toes, and some days it feels like my legs are on fire. Thank God I’m able to get up and work most days! Remember, it could always be worse…..God Bless.

I actually started crying just listening to you. When I went to my primary physician, he chuckled at me and did nothing. I now have a neurologist that listened. God bless you. We need more like you.

For some random reason I woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning and watch this. This could be a lifesaver for my sister. Thank you thank you thank you

From the comments, it seems everyone is in pain, including me! I wish this was my doctor or that I could find someone as knowledgeable as him. He is very easy to understand.

Not sure why this presentation showed up here, on my YouTube feed but I’m so thankful that it did. Dr. Ian Carroll is very articulate and informative…and..very honest!! I am saving this to watch..again.. at another time..to glean everything I can from this awesome presentation. Thank you, Dr. Ian 🥰

What an eloquent speaker and so much common sense. If I had a problem I would love to be in his care

Wow... we need more doctors like you who actually care about your patients... godbless you Doctor

I have had neuropathic pain for 28 years and never had I heard a doctor explain anything that came near to what I learned from this amazing doctor!!!!!! You can’t believe how happy I am to have heard this information !

Way back in 1976 when I was in the USN I sneezed really hard and bent over and ruptured a disc in my back. I had fallen several times before with no major issues. I think this may have contributed to what happened. I was in severe pain and I was subjected to procedures that were supposed to help but only made the pain worse. I was finally placed in Bethesda naval hospital! They seemed to believe that I was "malingering" which is a term used to describe someone who is faking injury or pain to try to get out of duty. That was far from the case! I then needed to go through many tests which ended up being painful due to what was wrong with me. They finally decided that I had a ruptured disc and I needed surgery. The next day after surgery I was urged to get up and walk and lo and behold the pain was gone! About five years ago I started having issues with falling and to make a long story short I have severe diabetic polyneuropathy. I was misdiagnosed for 5 months and in extreme pain. It took another couple of months to convince somebody that I needed to see a neurologist. Meanwhile I was placed into a rehab where they kept trying to get me to walk at cetera without doing anything to help my excruciating pain. Even after I got my diagnosis from the neurologist they would not prescribe anything strong enough because the doctors are all worried about the opioid crisis. Finally the neurologist referred me to a pain center and they prescribed Tramadol which is the only thing that has helped me! Lyrical made me gain 100 pounds and become bedridden! After going off Lyrica and using Tramadol I lodt 94 lbs and am able to get around again... but I'm still considered disabled. Don't give up no matter how many times people try to tell you it's all in your head or it's some other thing that's causing your problem. You know your body they don't!

As someone who lives with a surgically severed nerve, I thank you for such a clear and thorough explanation of neurological pain. My experience was eerily similar to your case study’s, I kept being referred back to the surgeon who caused the injury who told me it was all in my head, it took years to get a referral elsewhere which got me a diagnosis.

We need more whole body doctors like this, that’s the key. Too many “specialists “ who don’t understand their specialty’s relationship to the whole body

So refreshing to hear someone with articulate expertise

Thank God, finally!!!! Someone that actually gets it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No matter how many times I try explaining this to people there is no way to tell them how different these pains are! I have had 2 failed complete spine and neck fusions and no one can know how this feels till they live it!

Not only is this dude brilliant but he also knows how to approach and explain things that most people who are not M.D.s can in fact come to appreciate and from which to gain knowledge. I am so impressed by this 1.5-hour lecture. My brother has had 4 major back surgeries and suffers without break from nerve pain; I am convinced that his surgeons injured his nerves (plural !) to cause his pain. Unbelievably, since he visits doctors because of this pain (doctors who are incapable of helping him at all), some are convinced that he needs a "serious mental health evaluation," like patient "DS" in Dr. Carroll's talk.