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I have nerve pain and other unpleasant sensations in my feet at night and it wakes me up out of a deep sleep. I now keep a small freezer in my bedroom and put an icepack on the bottom of a foot when the pain wakes me up, it's usually is only one foot at a time. I then can get back to sleep with...

It is both interesting and discouraging that even with all my ongoing (and now somewhat improving) issues of my back surgery, that my fibromyalgia symptoms are as bad as ever and interfering with my recovery.

I came home yesturday from the hospital. I ended up having more surgerical procedures tha origionally first thought. I had 3 disc fused, a laminectomy and large cyst removed that was pushing against my spinal cord. I have a little bit longer incision in my back. The pain control issues that I...

Thank you for asking! Life can certainly hand out some challenges. I'm OK and on long term antibiotics, but tomorrow afternoon I am finally having my back surgery. In the 5 weeks that gone by since the surgery was first canceled I have developed foot drop. It has actually turned out that I am...

I'm very sorry to here about you issues. It was my rheumatologist that actually ordered the MRI that started the ball rolling on the fact that I really didn't have much of a choice about the surgery. I am typing this from a hospital bed. My back surgery has been rescheduled. I ended up in the...

Since I have already lost partial use of my right leg to a partially severed spinal cord. My issue is not whether I will or will not have the surgery. My back damage is not caused by a bulging disc or many of the typical bad idea reasons that doctors recommend back surgery. Most of the typical...

3 doctors and a several PTs all agreed. MRI confirmed that I already have spinal cord damage. I would be the first person to talk myself out of surgery. Unfortunately it's now more than a pain and mobility issue.

Thank you, What scares me is I don't have a choice. Without the surgery I will be a paraplegic within a year. I have almost all of the general symptoms of Fibro. so I already have a sensitivity to pain... I getting tired of it all. I will keep as positive of an attitude as I can muster. I...

I am having a lumbar Laminectomy and a 3 disc lumbar fusion next week. I have been on regular Hydrocodone for a number of years, related to other surgeries and joint pain. I have never abused it. My Rheumatologist says that I have Fibromyalgia and other autoimmune issues . The Orthopedic...

Thank you Lyme Suffering, Unfortunately this is not my first Rheumatologist. I was told by a one Rheumatologist that: "if your blood test doesn't show it, I can only help you with your symptoms". I guess that this makes sense but it "feels" sort of unsatisfactory to me. I was also told by one...