I'm Cynthia. I don't know where to even start. I started having trouble getting up off the floor. I was stuck on the bathroom floor and had to call my next door neighbor to come get me I couldn't get up at all. So we went to emergency in January because my legs hurt so bad I couldn't walk I was falling down I was screaming I was crying. So the doctor came in listened to me and said, "Oh hey, that's an easy fix!" Wow! Really! He brings me a small Dixie cup with an orange flavored drink...potassium drink. So I drank it. Then he left the room and came back with three other doctors. He says, "well your room is ready. You can stay here or you can go home it's up to you." I'm thinking hmm this is pretty neat I think I'll stay. Then he says to me, "the room is ready, they're waiting for you." I said what are we going to do? He says "brain surgery!" I thought he was joking. So immediately I'm wheeled into the surgery room and they did brain surgery. He said I had old blood and New blood pooling on my brain and that if I didn't come in there when I did I'd probably have a stroke.
I was in rehab for 3 weeks or 4 weeks and left the hospital in a wheelchair. I'm still in the wheelchair. I haven't been diagnosed why my legs don't work and they hurt so bad it's excruciating. The muscles and the tendons contract and then I can't move and it hurts so effing bad. The primary care doctor gave me anti-inflammatory pills and some anti-inflammatory gel and some tramadol which none of the above helps with the pain. I'm not sure there's anything that can help the pain. I was diagnosed with kidney cancer about a year ago and I'm going to have the procedure done in about a week or two. Then my breast implant ruptured so I have to have those removed. And my orthopedic surgeon will be scheduling hip replacement on both hips. Meanwhile I need help I can't do anything and I dread having to go anywhere. I can't wash dishes, I can't do my laundry, I can't grocery shop I can't cook I can't do anything. I barely get out of my chair to get to the toilet. It's aggravating. Sometimes I get stuck for hours literally and I can't move I can't get from the kitchen to my bedroom takes about 2 hours. My legs and my ankles swell. I've tried everything and I get no relief I can't even sit in the wheelchair anymore it hurts it hurts it hurts. I cry every day! I'm bone on bone with the hips and that's understandable but what's all the other stuff going on in my legs what's that called? Soon as I move it sounds like I have rocks in my pocket, like pop rocks. Sometimes it bangs so bad it knocks me over and of course I scream very loud. (Not sure my neighbors can hear me.) This kind of pain should be illegal. Aqua therapy while I was in the pool helped a little bit but soon as I emerge from the pool it's back to pain. Does anybody else have that banging that popping sound in their legs with that kind of pain?