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Hi Tray

I can relate to "I was on the phone while my doc was stitching me up". I was on the phone in recovery for the few seconds they kept me there with all the "whiners". Most women really don't wanna hear about "easy births" so it's a subject I don't bring up often. My first words after my second baby (she took all of 5 painfree pushes) was "I'll do THAT ten more times!"

I know exactly what you're talking about as my boyfriend has a cervical spine condition of unknown origin (they think multiple car accidents but he may have been born with a reversed curve) and has had surgery and hardware which has only made him 100 times worse. Since it's in the cervical spine he experiences the "numbness" - people mistake that to mean lack of pain - down his neck across his upper back, around his scapula and then down his arm and into his hand. He can't sit...anywhere. He also has degenerative disc disease and bone spurs as you have. I've gotta tell him about the shooting pain down your leg because he has it too! He thinks he has bone cancer His neurologist sent him to the neurosurgeon and the post surgical MRI's are really BAD. He is now sending him to pain management before considering another surgery and has him on 100 Vicoden ES/month plus chloral hydrate to knock him out for sleep and Valium for his Meniere's Disease which I neglected to mention above. He's also been operated on three times for carpal tunnel so there's nothing left in there to operate on - his hands are useless, well not completely

. We are all vital young people and we deserve "our lives back". Sadly, life is not always fair. Get yourself to a pain clinic!! Find one that does biofeedback - it's irrefutable evidence of your degree of pain and they must prescribe accordingly. There are several injectables available at this point in time as well. Massage helps temporarily. And get a very soft mattress if possible. Mine's "cement" so the stiffness is excruciating.

I've been selling on eBay for over a year. It's something I don't have to leave home to do except occassional runs to the post office. I can't drive most of the time either. I refuse to drive if I can't turn my head or body and if I have no use of my shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands and feet. The Fibro-fog makes me do pretty wild things too. Like u-turns or dead stops on a 6-lane road - not cool at all. I get lost in my own neighborhood. It's pretty messed up. If my kids were toddlers I'd have to give them up. Thank goodness they're not.

Both my boyfriend and I have VERY high tolerances to pain as you do, and just as you have we've pushed past so much that we now find ourselves desperate. Do NOT give up hope.

I have TONS to list and I need to do it today. I also need to run some errands but I don't see that happening.

Peace

Barb
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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.- Napoleon Bonaparte