I have spent years in such pain that I begged for someone to cut my arm off. This is how I survived

Amy Pohl was working as a teacher when a medical accident left her with the condition CRPS. She talks about the agony that even doctors struggle to understand – and her new life as a TikTok star

Just a few years ago, Amy Pohl loathed her left hand. “Despised it,” she says. It had become a sort of shape-shifter that was part of her and not part of her. It would swell up, change colour. She could not touch it, could not move it. Even the sensation of air upon it was excruciating, so that for months, going outside or even opening a window became impossible. “I felt that it didn’t belong to me, and it wasn’t mine. I had a real hatred towards it.”

Now 30, Pohl is still working out how to survive what has happened to her body. She has not, she acknowledges, had to withstand something as drastic as a shark attack or a plane crash. But neither has she found any sort of cure.

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