And.....I do not mean to diminish Pooh's Thread by a similar name.....

It is just that the pain so overwhelmed me today, the herky jerky nerve junk in my legs running about 50 to 60 times today, the arm beyond tolerance...I started into tears in my office. At least I made it through most of the day, negotiations, a class, meetings, doing the stuff of helping my clients.... then CRASH.....tears. So, a co-worker helped me to my car and I came home.

Took tramadol [prescribed] for the pain AND ran my stim up to maximum tolerable level. Have for a long time used it a low levels to maintain..... and thus avoid overstimulating the nerve; even so, I HAD to have something today....AND.....that blessed sleep which for me today was not overrated. I fell asleep for three hours or so. Pain escaped in dreamland medicated bliss as my stim recharged.

Glad for sleep.

Yup it was good to be "tuned out" for a while.