Living with Chronic PainThis section is a place to share stories about Living with Chronic Pain. Below are entries of those who have already shared their stories. We hope that you find their experiences helpful to your own situation. You may also Help others by sharing your story. To quickly access health information from your website's browser, download Severe Chronic Pain , Sciatica , Muscle spasm , Insomnia I was in a severe car accident 8 years ago in addition to having 4 rear-ends hit me , and several bad falls over the 47 years. My worst symptoms are ; severe neck pain 1-10 ; 10; shoulder pain and shoulder blade knife stabbing pain and spasm 8 ; lowerback pain sciatica 10 ; numbness tingleing ,pins and needles down both arm and hands , numbness tingleing and loss of feeling in feet 10 ; restless leg syndrome 6 ; severe migraines 10 ; TMJ 5 . My medications are morphine , flexeril muscle relaxant , lyrica , . severeinsomnia 6 years , absolutely can not sleep without sleep meds rate insomnia 10 ; I take remeron , amitryptyline , flexeril , morphine , lyrica , diazepam , seroquel for sleeping and may get 2-3.5 hours broken up at night averageing 3-5 nights 0 sleep , my doctor refuses to give me more meds to increase my ability to sleep , she’s afraid I will stop breathing at night from drugs , as I have gone into full cardiac arrest , and comatose for 4 days , I have been to sleep clinics for sleep apnea and 0 . I go to chiropractor . massage therapy weekly , my mwds cost $1,400.00 a month , chiro 480.00 , massage 150.00 - 300.00 monthly , I have been unable to find a treatment that would allow me to sleep , hopeing that I could deal with the pain better, and or replace meds . Comments
September 2008
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