Re: HELP PLEASE-pain is causing me to feel suicidal, exacerbating my clinical depression and making it hard to walk

BACKGROUND

I have been in 25 car wrecks (only a few my fault) including being run over by a car while walking and a 55 mph crash where I had internal injuries and had to be cut out of car.


Due to this my back has been weakened and I have had a severely herniated disk 6 times.

I refused a neurologist advice to have immediate surgery when the car ran over me and pain was shooting to me foot and it took 25 minutes to walk to next room and could not take shower for 3 months as could not lift my foot high enough. I would scream with pain if moved a 1/2 inch in bed.



Through it took him 15 months visits (first 3 times a week and then 2 times and then one time_ it finally was fixed by a chiropractor who had fixed my other herniations where pain shot to my knee not my foots. The neurologist was so angry I refused surgery he screamed at me when I went to leave "you will be back I guarantee it you will not be able to stand the pain

I have been able with rest to walk about an hour now and was doing as fine as he could get me.

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CURRENT PROBLEM

THEN I went to do a lot of cleaning for an inspection and some lifting and went to bed fine. The next day which was 7 weeks ago, when I got up to use the bathroom, it felt like I sat down wrong or something because pain shot to my foot which went numb. (sciatic nerve pain).


I was completely bedridden for 3 weeks living in my bedroom and eating from a cooler.

Three shifts/movements in my back, knee and groin have taken place when I walked each resulting in further immediate symptoms.

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MY OTHER INJURIES SINCE IT HAPPENED

#1

I was walking to bathroom and I felt a loud pop in my back or hip maybe. Immediately I got worst.

My entire leg, groin and hip became a massive muscle cramp, charlie horse worst than I ever had. Also my foot shifted from numb to burning nerve pain I never had experienced before. I was screaming but no way to get to ER as no car (car problems)., I used a lot of alternative nervines and herb tinctures I had been trying, along with folding and taking a pain pill (codeine 3) and an anti-inflammatory but no help. finally an hour later it had improved to where ZI could fall asleep. when I awoke the pain was back to numb in foot and regular sciatic pain radiating across my hip and down lg to foot as well as through the groin. No more muscle cramp then.

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#2 -

One day I went to get out of car, as one leg was moving out of car but butt still in place, I felt/heard a pop in my groin area where the hip meets the body. I went into my destination and sat down. I soon noticed my entire leg from knee down went numb (except some in the inside of calf is not numb where it has remained to this day. this is worse than the back/sciatic pain which has lessened.

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#3

also felt several shifts of my kneecap which affected the feelings in my foot.

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Currently, my leg is in pain. It varies in nerve sensations from numb to pins and needles to odd sensory sensations. Affects most of my calf from knee down and my toes and foot.

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Walking is hard and I am walking with a pronounced limp with leg out to side in n odd gait which is causing muscle cramps. I can only get a short distance like from handicapped parking to store entry where I need a motorized cart. I cannot go places where any walking beyond several yards is required.


Yesterday, my foot was bad and felt like a bee sting lind of over my entire foot and felt swollen almost with lots of odd sensations and pins and needles along with areas of numbness. Hurts night and day. first thing I feel when I wake up. Chiropractor recommended I go swimming and felt my leg the whole time. Hard to get one's mind off it.

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MY PROBLEM

my HMO changed and so no longer covers hardly any chiropractic. About one visit a month but had to use several all at once when this happened. Now rationing them out every 2 weeks will run out in a month with no more till January.

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I have only 2 visits left till January whereas before either paid one a week or someone else was at fault and paid.

Due to this I have cut back visits as extremely poor. Lots of other problems going on especially financially. electric shutoffs and car problems that went on several weeks. Have no money to pay doctor though maybe I can swing a few visits with chiropractor. He has not been able to adjust so far despite several visits. now on a every 2 weeks visit and then no adjustment...no pop...no movement in low back I could detect.



He says he feels a small shift but I never feel it, I am doing self chiropractor twists in desperation since I cannot go to him a lot when I wake up (several times a night) and am really relaxed. Have gotten several pops in lumbar area where it originated which I think it whey back is hurting less. Before it hurt when I lifted my leg while lying but now not that much though still having some back pain. At night cry for 4 hours trying to sleep. It hurts more when lying ..at first it was excruciating to walk and I feel to floor and had to crawl on my stomach to get to phone and help..could not even crawl on hands and knees as pain was so intense. could not sit more than 3 seconds without screaming. Using bathroom was bad as hurt to sit.

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Now I can sit hours ok but leg hurts all the time and numb and nerve sensations of varying types. I just got a mattress from thrift store as mine was so bad and saggy from money sister gave me for car which is better since we replaced the computer as I think bad mattress was making me worst. did not hurt to the pint I cried last night but leg hurt every thine I woke up and numbness and other awful feeling nerve pains and sensations are driving me nuts.

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I had been very suicidal at least 9 days of the last 7 week spending my days calling crisis lines all the time trying to make it through my life.


Is there any any thing I can do to help my back unpinch this nerve and anything that would make my leg feel normal again.

I have no doctor at this point, do NOT want surgery and very reluctant to take drugs like anti-inflammatories as I have been told I had diabetes a year ago and my mom wound up on dialysis with 9 heart attacks it caused and told it was from taking NSAID drugs such as the ibuprofen. I am taking (I am taking about 1 pills every 1-2 days depending on how I feel (label says take 4 times a day) but I am scared as do not want to wind up on dialysis. last 3 diabetic tests showed normal as I am eating lots of raw and became a vegan. I was exercising but now can't due to my leg (I had been walking)and this inability to walk is bad for my diabetes. Despite normal a1c/fasting blood Sugar test, I have never had a normal test blood glucose when home testing.

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A nurse said diabetic neuropathy is more in the foot and I think more bilateral so I think my foot and leg numbness is due to sciatica, not diabetic neuropathy. a relative just lost all his toes and part of foot this week so that is also in my mind. do not want this to lead me to that.

Last time despite 2 allopathic doctor notes and my own and chiropractic pleadings, my HMO turned down additional visits.



I have distrust of allopaths and drugs and definite surgery is out.

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Are there any things I can do on my own to help this nerve damage go away. Afraid the longer it takes the more it could be permanent and is destroying the quality of my life.

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I did not take enough but some of the things I have tried (but not doing often enough) are colon cleansing, nervines, circulation herbs and other tinctures of chaparral, burdock root, skullcap. lobelia (great for muscle cramps), hawthorne, ginger, cayenne, ginkgo, horse chestnut, horse tail, willow/meadowsweet, bilberry and oat seed. but only taking about once a day as not a lot of money but maybe could up that some.

also using external applications of tiger balm or muscle rubs and wintergreen mixed in. brief hot and cold showers and formentations of raw apple cider vinegar which seems to help. Occasional heat pad and ice.

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I help a lot of people online sometimes spending 50 plus hours week doing so but am falling behind on emails due to my own condition, pain, numbness, leg and foot pain/uncomfortable sensations, Depression etc.

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I helped so many freely and am hoping someone has the compassion to help me as I am close to the edge recently.

Please help me if you can=


Is there anything you can suggest I can do alternative health wise etc that could help my back and leg get back to normal.




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