Ragtop:

Thanks! The cause was first thought to be alcohol. I do drink, but only to excess and only after 9:00 am so I didn't really believe it. Later on it was discovered that I had T2 diabetes and I was 90 days from blindness and death.

So diabetes is now thought to be the cause. I can't lift groceries, do the foxtrot or toss the caber, I walk in a mysterious way and I have to sleep with my orthopedic, birth-control shoes on. My gymnastics career is probably in doubt. It's starting to get me down.

I'm in the desert in Mexico, if there was such a thing as a pain management facility, they'd probably prescribe Tequila. I've read that I should take aspirin or ibuprofen but nobody mentions morphine.

Thanks for the response, I'll continue my descent into complete misery while reading the forum.