This is the second time it’s happened, but this time the phantom pain came first.

I think I hurt my back digging a hole in the yard this weekend. It felt like I had just stretched a muscle or something. But this morning, I woke up to extra-spicy phantom limb pain in one foot - electric shocks, which is unusual, because I don’t normally get it like that - and later in the day, my buttock on that side started throbbing like proper sciatica.

I went see the doc and she doesn’t believe I can get phantom pain before getting sciatica. I’m not sure I believe it either, but it can’t be a coincidence. Also, just like last time, my buttock seems okay now, but the phantom pain isn’t going away…

Have you experienced this sort of thing too or is it in my head?