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Old 02-19-2016, 08:45 AM
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Yes, it's been about 3 months. He's taking Lyrica, 100 mg at night and 200 mg in the morning. He does partial weightbearing, using the crutches to assist and take some of the weight off. There are many days he can't even handle that. He really only can do it once or twice a day on a good day. He does stretching exercises with the therapy band, and we do frequent stretching and massage to help the circulation and ease the pain. No allodynia, thankfully. I'm hoping as the weather warms, he will see more improvement. His foot never really looks swollen. It looks red or purple on top, it stays pretty cold so he uses a heating pad. He uses the pool every other day, sometimes he needs two days in between to let the pain subside further. His activities vary there, depending who's in the pool with him. He walks some, swims some, gives his little brothers dolphin rides, or wrestles with his older brother. lol
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