Low back pain & neuropathy issues

Same hear I have three procedures no help . I am looking to stem cell info now.

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I'm in the same boat except I'd love to be on my feet for 15 minutes at a time. Cancer left me with 1 lung and COPD in addition I have far more back issues than I care to relate. Never been a real advocate for suicide but I got to a point where pain, even when seated was so unbearable I couldn't see the point in being alive. What saved me was an Intrathecal pain pump which is a small pump surgically implanted in my stomach which slowly drips tiny amounts of dilaudid into a catheter that runs up my spine. I get it refilled at the doctors office once every 3 months. It gives me 2.75 mg per day plus another 1 mg. that I can deliver 1/10th of a mg. at a time with the use of a remote control. It is 300 times more effective than oral drugs. It replaced 252 mgs. of assorted narcotics per day that were really doing me little if any good but were making Johnny a dull boy indeed. I still can't walk very far without a cane or a walker but when I'm seated or lying down down I have very little pain.

My cancer also left me light 20 lympne nodes so my left leg is wrapped in 5 layers of assorted bandages 23 hours a day for the rest of my life. I barely moved at all the first year after cancer. My surgical wound didn't stop draining for 9 months after surgery so I had a tube coming out of my leg and draining into a bag which had to be emptied around every half hour. The worst part was that the wrapping on my leg would slip down and pull the tube out along with the stitches that held it in place. I had to give up blowing glass, gardening, playing guitar, walking, hunting, fishing and cooking. I'm still retired from my profession as a glass artist and haven't had a garden or gone hunting since 2014 but Getting rid of the damn bag on my leg and getting my pain back to manageable levels has really improved my life, my happiness and eased my depression.

My neuropathy is really helped by Amitriptyline and Lyrica. I was also dealing with almost constant cramping which has been almost cured with Baclofen. I'm a Pharmacist's dream date but life has gotten better. The other thing that was holding me down was a need for 12 hours of sleep a day and being tired when I was awake. Breathing with just one lung is a tiring process. The last piece of the puzzle was filled in 3 weeks ago when my doctor put me on 10mg. of Adderall twice a day. I still wake up tired but I am wide awake for 14 hours a day and I'm reasonably happy. By the way, I am 66 years old.

I wanted to walk so badly that I went back to Physical Therapy to try to strengthen my lower back. I really need to exercise or turn into nothing but lard. It hasn't helped my walking yet but my PT did turn me onto a NuStep cross training machine at the gym. You use it seated and it puts no pressure on your back. I work it furiously for about an hour everyday. I'm actually starting to loose weight which is great for how I feel about myself. I'm hoping if I can drop 50 lbs. and strengthen my one good lung and my legs that I will be able to walk around on my beautiful 25 acre property. I can't say enough about what exercise does for your sense of well being.

Someone else mentioned "tapping". Great stuff. It saved me when I was really deep in depression years ago. Depression makes your experience of pain much worse. Other things I have found useful are Qigong, (which is the mother of yoga, acupuncture and Thi Chi), Healing Touch, and massage. I'm getting a massage tomorrow and have a Healing Touch session on Saturday. I hope something I've shared will be helpful, let me know.

wsh66

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One thing I take to help my mood,depression is SAM- E buy at drugstore or Walmart

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I'm in the same boat except I'd love to be on my feet for 15 minutes at a time. Cancer left me with 1 lung and COPD in addition I have far more back issues than I care to relate. Never been a real advocate for suicide but I got to a point where pain, even when seated was so unbearable I couldn't see the point in being alive. What saved me was an Intrathecal pain pump which is a small pump surgically implanted in my stomach which slowly drips tiny amounts of dilaudid into a catheter that runs up my spine. I get it refilled at the doctors office once every 3 months. It gives me 2.75 mg per day plus another 1 mg. that I can deliver 1/10th of a mg. at a time with the use of a remote control. It is 300 times more effective than oral drugs. It replaced 252 mgs. of assorted narcotics per day that were really doing me little if any good but were making Johnny a dull boy indeed. I still can't walk very far without a cane or a walker but when I'm seated or lying down down I have very little pain.

My cancer also left me light 20 lympne nodes so my left leg is wrapped in 5 layers of assorted bandages 23 hours a day for the rest of my life. I barely moved at all the first year after cancer. My surgical wound didn't stop draining for 9 months after surgery so I had a tube coming out of my leg and draining into a bag which had to be emptied around every half hour. The worst part was that the wrapping on my leg would slip down and pull the tube out along with the stitches that held it in place. I had to give up blowing glass, gardening, playing guitar, walking, hunting, fishing and cooking. I'm still retired from my profession as a glass artist and haven't had a garden or gone hunting since 2014 but Getting rid of the damn bag on my leg and getting my pain back to manageable levels has really improved my life, my happiness and eased my depression.

My neuropathy is really helped by Amitriptyline and Lyrica. I was also dealing with almost constant cramping which has been almost cured with Baclofen. I'm a Pharmacist's dream date but life has gotten better. The other thing that was holding me down was a need for 12 hours of sleep a day and being tired when I was awake. Breathing with just one lung is a tiring process. The last piece of the puzzle was filled in 3 weeks ago when my doctor put me on 10mg. of Adderall twice a day. I still wake up tired but I am wide awake for 14 hours a day and I'm reasonably happy. By the way, I am 66 years old.

I wanted to walk so badly that I went back to Physical Therapy to try to strengthen my lower back. I really need to exercise or turn into nothing but lard. It hasn't helped my walking yet but my PT did turn me onto a NuStep cross training machine at the gym. You use it seated and it puts no pressure on your back. I work it furiously for about an hour everyday. I'm actually starting to loose weight which is great for how I feel about myself. I'm hoping if I can drop 50 lbs. and strengthen my one good lung and my legs that I will be able to walk around on my beautiful 25 acre property. I can't say enough about what exercise does for your sense of well being.

Someone else mentioned "tapping". Great stuff. It saved me when I was really deep in depression years ago. Depression makes your experience of pain much worse. Other things I have found useful are Qigong, (which is the mother of yoga, acupuncture and Thi Chi), Healing Touch, and massage. I'm getting a massage tomorrow and have a Healing Touch session on Saturday. I hope something I've shared will be helpful, let me know.

wsh66

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I'm in the same boat except I'd love to be on my feet for 15 minutes at a time. Cancer left me with 1 lung and COPD in addition I have far more back issues than I care to relate. Never been a real advocate for suicide but I got to a point where pain, even when seated was so unbearable I couldn't see the point in being alive. What saved me was an Intrathecal pain pump which is a small pump surgically implanted in my stomach which slowly drips tiny amounts of dilaudid into a catheter that runs up my spine. I get it refilled at the doctors office once every 3 months. It gives me 2.75 mg per day plus another 1 mg. that I can deliver 1/10th of a mg. at a time with the use of a remote control. It is 300 times more effective than oral drugs. It replaced 252 mgs. of assorted narcotics per day that were really doing me little if any good but were making Johnny a dull boy indeed. I still can't walk very far without a cane or a walker but when I'm seated or lying down down I have very little pain.

My cancer also left me light 20 lympne nodes so my left leg is wrapped in 5 layers of assorted bandages 23 hours a day for the rest of my life. I barely moved at all the first year after cancer. My surgical wound didn't stop draining for 9 months after surgery so I had a tube coming out of my leg and draining into a bag which had to be emptied around every half hour. The worst part was that the wrapping on my leg would slip down and pull the tube out along with the stitches that held it in place. I had to give up blowing glass, gardening, playing guitar, walking, hunting, fishing and cooking. I'm still retired from my profession as a glass artist and haven't had a garden or gone hunting since 2014 but Getting rid of the damn bag on my leg and getting my pain back to manageable levels has really improved my life, my happiness and eased my depression.

My neuropathy is really helped by Amitriptyline and Lyrica. I was also dealing with almost constant cramping which has been almost cured with Baclofen. I'm a Pharmacist's dream date but life has gotten better. The other thing that was holding me down was a need for 12 hours of sleep a day and being tired when I was awake. Breathing with just one lung is a tiring process. The last piece of the puzzle was filled in 3 weeks ago when my doctor put me on 10mg. of Adderall twice a day. I still wake up tired but I am wide awake for 14 hours a day and I'm reasonably happy. By the way, I am 66 years old.

I wanted to walk so badly that I went back to Physical Therapy to try to strengthen my lower back. I really need to exercise or turn into nothing but lard. It hasn't helped my walking yet but my PT did turn me onto a NuStep cross training machine at the gym. You use it seated and it puts no pressure on your back. I work it furiously for about an hour everyday. I'm actually starting to loose weight which is great for how I feel about myself. I'm hoping if I can drop 50 lbs. and strengthen my one good lung and my legs that I will be able to walk around on my beautiful 25 acre property. I can't say enough about what exercise does for your sense of well being.

Someone else mentioned "tapping". Great stuff. It saved me when I was really deep in depression years ago. Depression makes your experience of pain much worse. Other things I have found useful are Qigong, (which is the mother of yoga, acupuncture and Thi Chi), Healing Touch, and massage. I'm getting a massage tomorrow and have a Healing Touch session on Saturday. I hope something I've shared will be helpful, let me know.

wsh66

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I'm in the same boat except I'd love to be on my feet for 15 minutes at a time. Cancer left me with 1 lung and COPD in addition I have far more back issues than I care to relate. Never been a real advocate for suicide but I got to a point where pain, even when seated was so unbearable I couldn't see the point in being alive. What saved me was an Intrathecal pain pump which is a small pump surgically implanted in my stomach which slowly drips tiny amounts of dilaudid into a catheter that runs up my spine. I get it refilled at the doctors office once every 3 months. It gives me 2.75 mg per day plus another 1 mg. that I can deliver 1/10th of a mg. at a time with the use of a remote control. It is 300 times more effective than oral drugs. It replaced 252 mgs. of assorted narcotics per day that were really doing me little if any good but were making Johnny a dull boy indeed. I still can't walk very far without a cane or a walker but when I'm seated or lying down down I have very little pain.

My cancer also left me light 20 lympne nodes so my left leg is wrapped in 5 layers of assorted bandages 23 hours a day for the rest of my life. I barely moved at all the first year after cancer. My surgical wound didn't stop draining for 9 months after surgery so I had a tube coming out of my leg and draining into a bag which had to be emptied around every half hour. The worst part was that the wrapping on my leg would slip down and pull the tube out along with the stitches that held it in place. I had to give up blowing glass, gardening, playing guitar, walking, hunting, fishing and cooking. I'm still retired from my profession as a glass artist and haven't had a garden or gone hunting since 2014 but Getting rid of the damn bag on my leg and getting my pain back to manageable levels has really improved my life, my happiness and eased my depression.

My neuropathy is really helped by Amitriptyline and Lyrica. I was also dealing with almost constant cramping which has been almost cured with Baclofen. I'm a Pharmacist's dream date but life has gotten better. The other thing that was holding me down was a need for 12 hours of sleep a day and being tired when I was awake. Breathing with just one lung is a tiring process. The last piece of the puzzle was filled in 3 weeks ago when my doctor put me on 10mg. of Adderall twice a day. I still wake up tired but I am wide awake for 14 hours a day and I'm reasonably happy. By the way, I am 66 years old.

I wanted to walk so badly that I went back to Physical Therapy to try to strengthen my lower back. I really need to exercise or turn into nothing but lard. It hasn't helped my walking yet but my PT did turn me onto a NuStep cross training machine at the gym. You use it seated and it puts no pressure on your back. I work it furiously for about an hour everyday. I'm actually starting to loose weight which is great for how I feel about myself. I'm hoping if I can drop 50 lbs. and strengthen my one good lung and my legs that I will be able to walk around on my beautiful 25 acre property. I can't say enough about what exercise does for your sense of well being.

Someone else mentioned "tapping". Great stuff. It saved me when I was really deep in depression years ago. Depression makes your experience of pain much worse. Other things I have found useful are Qigong, (which is the mother of yoga, acupuncture and Thi Chi), Healing Touch, and massage. I'm getting a massage tomorrow and have a Healing Touch session on Saturday. I hope something I've shared will be helpful, let me know.

wsh66

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One thing I take to help my mood,depression is SAM- E buy at drugstore or Walmart

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I'm in the same boat except I'd love to be on my feet for 15 minutes at a time. Cancer left me with 1 lung and COPD in addition I have far more back issues than I care to relate. Never been a real advocate for suicide but I got to a point where pain, even when seated was so unbearable I couldn't see the point in being alive. What saved me was an Intrathecal pain pump which is a small pump surgically implanted in my stomach which slowly drips tiny amounts of dilaudid into a catheter that runs up my spine. I get it refilled at the doctors office once every 3 months. It gives me 2.75 mg per day plus another 1 mg. that I can deliver 1/10th of a mg. at a time with the use of a remote control. It is 300 times more effective than oral drugs. It replaced 252 mgs. of assorted narcotics per day that were really doing me little if any good but were making Johnny a dull boy indeed. I still can't walk very far without a cane or a walker but when I'm seated or lying down down I have very little pain.

My cancer also left me light 20 lympne nodes so my left leg is wrapped in 5 layers of assorted bandages 23 hours a day for the rest of my life. I barely moved at all the first year after cancer. My surgical wound didn't stop draining for 9 months after surgery so I had a tube coming out of my leg and draining into a bag which had to be emptied around every half hour. The worst part was that the wrapping on my leg would slip down and pull the tube out along with the stitches that held it in place. I had to give up blowing glass, gardening, playing guitar, walking, hunting, fishing and cooking. I'm still retired from my profession as a glass artist and haven't had a garden or gone hunting since 2014 but Getting rid of the damn bag on my leg and getting my pain back to manageable levels has really improved my life, my happiness and eased my depression.

My neuropathy is really helped by Amitriptyline and Lyrica. I was also dealing with almost constant cramping which has been almost cured with Baclofen. I'm a Pharmacist's dream date but life has gotten better. The other thing that was holding me down was a need for 12 hours of sleep a day and being tired when I was awake. Breathing with just one lung is a tiring process. The last piece of the puzzle was filled in 3 weeks ago when my doctor put me on 10mg. of Adderall twice a day. I still wake up tired but I am wide awake for 14 hours a day and I'm reasonably happy. By the way, I am 66 years old.

I wanted to walk so badly that I went back to Physical Therapy to try to strengthen my lower back. I really need to exercise or turn into nothing but lard. It hasn't helped my walking yet but my PT did turn me onto a NuStep cross training machine at the gym. You use it seated and it puts no pressure on your back. I work it furiously for about an hour everyday. I'm actually starting to loose weight which is great for how I feel about myself. I'm hoping if I can drop 50 lbs. and strengthen my one good lung and my legs that I will be able to walk around on my beautiful 25 acre property. I can't say enough about what exercise does for your sense of well being.

Someone else mentioned "tapping". Great stuff. It saved me when I was really deep in depression years ago. Depression makes your experience of pain much worse. Other things I have found useful are Qigong, (which is the mother of yoga, acupuncture and Thi Chi), Healing Touch, and massage. I'm getting a massage tomorrow and have a Healing Touch session on Saturday. I hope something I've shared will be helpful, let me know.

wsh66

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