Thread: OUCH...... Need prayers

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prayers sent!!! hang in there and if it is Diabetes,there are worse things diease wise, while a bad diease its something you can control if you follow the rules. I was diagnosed a year ago with it this past January and once I got requlated in about 10 days or so and watched my diet life is pretty good. I do have to take shots,but have reduced them to 2 or 3 a day . they have refined the insulin with these epi pens so all you do is dial in your amount and the needles are very tiny and short.

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I will be praying for you my friend.

Sorry your having problems Lee. I will be praying for you

Maybe it will be something simple. Will be praying for you all the same. I've had the same symptoms and it was carpaltunal.

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Don’t worry that doctor will fix you up

Wishing and praying that you have the best outcome possible.

Like many younger people... I always thought I was indestructible. I began having very strange neurological symptoms about two years ago including numbness, tingling and (undescribable) shooting electrical sensations (such as I have never had) that made it very difficult for me to function, especially walk more than 45 or 50 steps and I began to get very unstable on my feet after walking that distance. I insisted that the VA dig into these mysterious symptoms (to which they agreed) after my satisfying my primary care provider that these symptoms were real and unceasing. Among other diagnostic procedures: I had 4 MRI's, a series of ultrasounds, thirty or so xrays and was sent to several Neurological, vascular, orthopedic and chiropractic specialists.

Trying not to bore you to death with the lengthy process, the sea of details and the endless complicated medical jargon: I was surprised to find that my symptoms were not caused by one... but a number of rather eye-opening degenerative conditions that are quite typical to the aging process. It was found that I had both cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis, that the rotator cuffs in both shoulders were totally shot, that I had bi-lateral carpal tunnel syndrome as well as left side ulnar tunnel syndrome. All of these conditions are well known to pinch, encroach and strangle nerve conductivity. I have gone through 74 sessions of physical therapy to hopefully affect the severity of all of these conditions... but to my and my doctor's disappointment there was very little change although there were some noticeable improvements.

The doctors have all recommended surgeries to correct these many issues, but I am now 63 years old and the idea that some of these surgeries (there are five) require several months to a year of recovery and rehabilitation (each)... so I have elected (instead) that I will try (with God's help) to live out the rest of my life as best I can without going through such.

I said all of that to say: I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who has these types of unexplained symptoms such as these... DO NOT IGNORE THEM!!!!... as there is usually something far more sinister than just a pinched nerve that could be responsible. Nerve pain and neurological dysfunction is nothing to play with.

One thing for sure... that I have often heard all of my life: "Getting old is not for the faint of heart." If I'd only known I was going to live this long... I would have taken much better care of myself.