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what is up with the clown theme in here
thats what I said too lol
The clown thing has me a little creeped out so I havent posted! I have been watching though.............
That's great. Swelling sucks but at least you are doing better.
awww...come on guys...lol your clowns scarred lilybear...Dont worry lilybear...they are harmless..and I HATE clowns as well
yea the doc told me to stay off my feet, but they are gonna swell regardless and I feel like I am going to go nuts if I dont do something with my time
Brett,
2 things you might want to look at. Moist heat/cold wrap. They sell them at CVS, can microwave for 2.5 minutes and great moist heat or can freeze them. The other thing, Cryocup. Poor mans version would be filling dixie cups with water and then peeling them back as they melt. With those you can do direct deep ice massages that can provide relief. As someone that has had numerous sports injuries, an incurable neuropathic pain condition in one leg and having recently had surgery for fracturing the other foot as well as nerve entrapment and plantar fasciitis I can't suggest those two things enough. Hope for the best on your end. And good work on the tips as usual.
2 things you might want to look at. Moist heat/cold wrap. They sell them at CVS, can microwave for 2.5 minutes and great moist heat or can freeze them. The other thing, Cryocup. Poor mans version would be filling dixie cups with water and then peeling them back as they melt. With those you can do direct deep ice massages that can provide relief. As someone that has had numerous sports injuries, an incurable neuropathic pain condition in one leg and having recently had surgery for fracturing the other foot as well as nerve entrapment and plantar fasciitis I can't suggest those two things enough. Hope for the best on your end. And good work on the tips as usual.
And if you can stand it, filling a bucket with ice water and submerging your feet in them for about 15 minutes. It is a lovely sharp pain at first but if you can take it, can help quite a bit with the swelling as well. I can't do it with the leg with the neuropathic pain condition (can't do ice, hell can't do a lot of things on that one). But on the other it can help quite a bit.
I feel your pain Brett. I was off work 4 1/2 months when I shattered my tibia. only so many reruns of Home Improvement you can watch lol.
Steve,
Yeah after awhile I haven't even wanted to watch much television. 4 months out this go round. My tibia was my source for my nerve condition. I didn't manage to break it, instead I dented the tibia, mangled the bone sheath, developed nerve entrapment and subsequently developed a lovely condition called RSD or more commonly now CRPS. The nerves misfire and hurt all the time but when it flares up the leg turns colors and can't even cup a hand over it let alone touch it without it being excruciating pain. It's the highest rated pain condition on the McGill pain scale even above child birth with no medication or preparation. Lovely thing to deal with every day especially when from the outside and a cane most people would never have any idea what is wrong. Been 8 long years with it and there is no cure. They just basically treat the symptoms. And offer to fuse wires to my spine and a box in my hip to basically send electrical impulses to my brain to confuse it from the pain...which I won't let them do. The condition often spreads in surgery so every surgery I have is a matter of a lot of hoping that it doesn't spread and can keep it contained to just the lower left leg and foot.
Yeah after awhile I haven't even wanted to watch much television. 4 months out this go round. My tibia was my source for my nerve condition. I didn't manage to break it, instead I dented the tibia, mangled the bone sheath, developed nerve entrapment and subsequently developed a lovely condition called RSD or more commonly now CRPS. The nerves misfire and hurt all the time but when it flares up the leg turns colors and can't even cup a hand over it let alone touch it without it being excruciating pain. It's the highest rated pain condition on the McGill pain scale even above child birth with no medication or preparation. Lovely thing to deal with every day especially when from the outside and a cane most people would never have any idea what is wrong. Been 8 long years with it and there is no cure. They just basically treat the symptoms. And offer to fuse wires to my spine and a box in my hip to basically send electrical impulses to my brain to confuse it from the pain...which I won't let them do. The condition often spreads in surgery so every surgery I have is a matter of a lot of hoping that it doesn't spread and can keep it contained to just the lower left leg and foot.
Nerve pain sucks slaughter. Been 5 yrs since an idiot run me off the road on my Harley. Foot got caught under the bike when it went down and got twisted around past 180 degrees. Tibia plateau was in 13 pieces and broke almost every bone in my foot. Good thing I was wearing heavy boots. "L" shaped plate 9 inches long and 11 screws to just put the bone back together. Foot healed up and pinched a bunch of nerves causing neuromas. Had so much pain I couldn't even walk. One was almost 1/2 inch around. Doc talked me into cutting the nerves back to get the weight off them. Only thing he didn't say was they would reform where they cut the nerves. Pain was worse after then before. Still have nerve damage in the knee too. Finally found a doc who treated the pain and got rid of most of it without prescribing me narcotics. I didn't want to go down that road because after a while you have to keep getting stronger meds. Once you get to that point there's no going back.
Damn Steve condolences. Glad you finally found a good doc to assist with it. The chronic pain is bad enough but when it makes it so you can't function and do things it is beyond a double whammy and something people struggle to grasp just how much that fact alone takes out of you. Between all of my injuries over my life from sports, car wrecks, stupidity and medical complications I haven't been able to avoid the narcotics myself. I've been on just about every pain med known to medicine in the US. I eventually forced myself down to where yeah I take them but they're nowhere near as strong as what they want me on. Doesn't get rid of the pain but lets me function at a decent level just have to watch my activity. I refuse to go back on the stronger stuff so long as I can help it. Between it being a never ending cycle where it just gets increased and then breaker pain meds involved and having lost my insurance before and then doing without and going through withdrawal on top of the pain...never again. Hope things get better on your end. It's certainly part of why I am glad to be moving somewhere that winter is nowhere near as long or as bad as it is here.
Want this Bruins Blackhawks game to end so I can try and crash lol. Second overtime just ended so intermission before a third overtime period.
Yup, Winter sucks. After 2 yrs I had the plate and screws taken out. A least that was an outpatient surgery and I walked out. When it got cold that plate and screws would get cold to the bone and everything would stiffen up to the point I couldn't bend my knee. The patellar tendon and 3 ligaments came loose from the bone and had to be reattached. Half the cartilage is missing and it causes some instability at times. Really have to watch what I do. I too have had every pain med known to man. The first time they cut the nerves they went through the top of my foot. Second time they wanted to go up through my arch and I said no way. This doc was going to send me to pain management and I asked about alternatives. We tried a few meds for nerve pain that didn't work and then tried Cymbalta. That seems to have done the trick as its been 9 months fairly pain free. It still hurts if I step wrong at times but nothing a few tylonol wont take care of. before that I was taking up to 20 motrin and tylonol a day and sometimes both at once. Started getting stomach problems from it and was afraid i'd kill my liver. Nice to finaly find a doc who cares and would listen to me and not just write a script and push you out the door.
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