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Neuropathy in feet and limited toe movement?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Nov 11, 2020 | Replies (150)Comment receiving replies
@jimhd ,Jim , I hope that you get some relief from any upcoming spinal stenosis surgery. I did get relief from my lumbar surgery (L5-S1 TLIF) I no longer had this pinched nerve, radicular left leg pain (had surgery summer 2019) . When it comes to pain control, you are the best judge as to your needs. Seek out a good pain specialist , many pain doctors focus on just giving injections and consider themselves interventional pain docs. Instead seek out a pain specialist that specializes in many oral pain meds. This moves responsibility/worry away from your primary care doc and fear that you will be cut off from your pain med to your pain med doc whose job is to keep you more pain free on a continued basis. You are doing good things for yourself and I am always humbled by your ability to share your story. It is a pilgrimage of suffering and from that find meaning. Best, David
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@phoenix0509 @jesfactsmon and everyone else
The mirror's not a problem. Right now it's the pain. My neurologist is doing a retake on several tests, and today was the skin puncture biopsy. I don't remember it hurting like this. Maybe it's just that the neuropathy pain is worse, so added together it really hurts tonight. I did some shopping after the test and came home and did a little yard work, but it was 91 here, and I could only work for a few minutes, and then take a break. Maybe I did too much. But it hurts too much to stand on it to wash the dishes. Tomorrow I'm getting an x-ray of my thumb and wrist, and at my next appointment in 4 weeks he'll redo the nerve conduction test, this time on my right arm. We're trying to figure out if the pain is from arthritis, neuropathy or carpal tunnel. Arthritis would mean a very painful cortisone shot. Carpal tunnel surgery is pretty straightforward and has a fairly quick recovery. My wife has had it on both of her wrists. If it's neuropathy, I don't think there's anything that can be done.
I took my third morphine - I don't take it very often - but it's not helping. I'm going to take every pain medication I have when I go to bed in a few minutes. Hopefully that will knock me out so I can sleep. Fortunately, sleep isn't an issue for me. My Bipap machine is a big help.
Sorry for the complaining. This is the only outlet I have right now and I needed to tell someone. Thanks for listening. I'm afraid I'm not very stoic tonight.
Jim
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I am grateful for the great pain specialist I've been seeing for a ye - aaaargh!! A guy just pulled into the space next to me and took out my mirror. End of writing for today. I'll finish tomorrow.
Jim