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Hello Anthony,                    My name is Earl Roberts, I live in Vacaville, CA.  Your situation/story touched me to the bone.  I am a bilateral AKA.  I lost my right leg in 2006 and my left leg in 1999.  Fortunately SS has not put my SSDI at risk.  However, I am dealing with severe nerve-damage pain in my left leg, even ten years after losing it.  My story is too long to go into right now as I just had major surgery on my left elbow and am left with one arm to function with.  My right shoulder is also causing me grief as it sometimes will swell in the joint and become frozen with excruciating pain.  This has happened three times, last night being the third one.  Twelve hours after my elbow surgery (10-26-2009), my daughter called 911 when she heard from my 58 year-old mentally retarded brother (I am his care-provider) that I looked bad.  I remember the paramedics helping me, but after 20mg  of morphine (10mgX2) & verced I did not wake-up for 36 hours.  I later found out my blood pressure exceeded 218/110.  The pain I was in almost killed me.  I spent six days in the hospital getting dilauded every two hours and the three days after walking up I was so miserable from pain.   I like you have dealt for so long the nerve-damage and phantom pain that it has consumed everything that I am or ever was.  I must admit when I heard a paramedic tell the doctor over the radio that my BP was 218+ and climbing I prayed for a fatal heart attack.  PAIN is the most terrible word in the dictionary.  I would like to continue correspondence with you, as venting with another chronic pain sufferer can help in a small way.  Thank you Anthony,  may you find some relief or help out there and never give up.  Earl