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Friday, August 08, 2008 steven miller asks

Q: my legs hurt so bad i cant walk 10 feet with out stoping to sit down from the pain

im 46 yrs old and i have suger diabetes high blood pressure a spinal cord simulater from medtronics its hasent worked for over 5-6 years. my back and legs are in so much pain i hardly sleep 2 to 3 hours a night.i take a ton of pills methodone 50 mg. 3 timea aday percette 10/650 mg. i tab every 3-4 hours

oxycontin 80 mg twice aday plus other nerve pills. you would think taking all of that stuff would help.

but after taking them for over 15 years my body got used to them and they dont work as good any more.

can you please let me know about the pain pump. im trapped in my own house because i cant walk from all the pain you can e-mail me at coreycowboy@gmail.com

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5/13/09 12:17pm

how is your legs nowaday?? The reason i asked was because my mom had the same problem. She gone to many doctors but they don't do or care about her pain. She cries most of the time when she walk in the a short distance. Please share some idea to my email at shelby1@ou.edu

Thanks

shelby

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7/ 3/09 6:51pm

I hope your pain gets better.  I had those pain too.

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2/ 2/12 8:37am

I know exactly where ur coming from! It is so hard and I have been this way, since I had a neck surgery(C5-C6) spinal diskectomy. I have only gone downhill and can't seem to get back up.

I just want to know what this is and hearing that there is someone else out there, who is suffering with the same kind of pain...IT is horrible! I am so sorry to hear, to know anyone could live with this kind of pain. I know, mine has been with me so long that I feel, I will be like this the rest of my life.

I am getting to where I can't control my muscles all over my body. My left arm/hand shakes uncontrollalby, as well as my left leg and I am afraid this is some nervous disorder that they are just not finding. I don't understand how they could miss something that hurts this bad. I am so miserable most of the time, I don't go anywhere, but to a Docs appointments, lay in bed most of the time and am losing all of my muscles, in my whold body and feel like I am losing my mind...right along with it.

The Docs that I have seen most of the time, are Neurologists. I am finally getting tired of going to see them, because it seems like I am getting nowhere. So, I made appts. with an Oncologist and a Cardiologist. Thus far, they have ruled out "tumor markers", by a test called a CEA. I asked them to run it, just to make sure that there was no Cancer in my organs, but they usually don't run this test, unless they feel the need. I was told by a professional lab tech, u could say, because she works for a prominent Lab facility, that I needed to have that test run, because from what she could see from the bloodwork that I had done @ 9 mos. ago, my Iron, Serum test(110) was double what it should have been and she frowned upon my Alkaline Phosphatase #.

All I know is that there is definitely something wrong with me that is pretty bad and no one can find it! What!?

What is going on, when what u have can't be figured out...IT is pretty bad to have to suffer and can't get well. All I know is that I am tired of being sick...yes, I am definitely SICK of being SICK!

The only thing now, is that I am getting chest discomfort and it hurts for me to lay on my left side. It feels like it is my heart. I think that maybe that is because I have Chronic Bronchitis, like I have had b4 and put in the Hospital for a week, when I was 12. It could be Pheumonia, but Lord knows when a body hurts so bad that u only want answers...there is just not any Docs that are giving ANY or relief. I only want to feel like me again and not be in so much pain anymore, but I have had so many tests and they can't give me an answer...and that is hard on a person, when it takes so long to feel healthy again.

It is bad that I hurt ALL over and it is not just in one area and that is why they THINK it is Fibro, but it is something else...I can feel it and I know there are many others that feel the same way. THe Docs are only treating the symptoms and NOT the CAUSE!!Frown

I pray that ur doing better now and can tell me what they found. Take care and God Bless always.:))<3 Karen

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