Thanks... My FDN doc, as well as my DOM, who follows Ben Lynch and uses his StrataGene report, has run all the genetic profiles against my medications. I'm on High doses as i said, like 400mg of Lyrica, and going higher and 120 of Cymbalta, 150mg of Topirimate, 50mg of Nortripityline, hopefully changing to Amitriptyline and going higher and 40mcg of Fentanyl. No doubt I have PTSD, and I'm somewhat depressed because I'm in pain, but I'm not in pain because i'm depressed. I've got a lot to live for. My back yard is a beautiful zen garden. I pay someone to make it so, if only I could go enjoy it. I want this pin pricking pain to go away so I can go hiking again. That's all. But, I do appreciate the thought. There is just so much they still don't know about neuropathy, and what is happening with this. They've been working on this for a long time. Trench foot, for instance, is Non-Freezing Cold Injury. I assume everyone has heard of that since so many soldiers had that happen to them in World War I. But soldiers, because they get stuck in cold environments , and aren't allowed to leave, have this happen to them frequently, but generally just in their hands or feet. Because of my stupidity, it's all over my body including my thighs and chest. At least my cold sensitivity and the Cold Pain, when it's at it's worst affects me all over. It may just be the TRPM8 going out of control. I don't even want to think about it. Everyone has their burden, I read your stories, and my members have so many issues as well, many having FMS as a secondary illness, as I. But FMS Pain, Primary or Secondary is equally bad, and it has the same mechanisms as the Cold Pain. The only difference is the drugs I listed up there work for FMS. Certainly not 100% Not even 60%. It depends, again, how damaged your nerve cells are. Some of my members can't take medications, and I listen to their stories, and situations they get themselves in, and I want to cry with them. The medical practitioners, at least here, are terrible when it comes to providing care for CSS suffers. All of them have PTSD from having to deal with their doctors. Sorry, I'm hurting. I'm right now laying on a biomat set low at 121F and my electric blanket, all aimed at my lower torso. I sleep with camp boots.
Good Night.