I use a wheelchair part time. I can walk short distances, like around the house, but cannot get around something as large as a grocery store, mall or airport without assistance. But it is mainly because of severe auto-immune fatigue rather than pain.

Don't get me wrong. The pain is awful. But I am generally able to force myself to keep moving no matter how much it hurts, whereas if I keep going past the point of physical exhaustion, I will nearly collapse.

There are times, though, when I do have too much numbness in my lower limbs to walk around a public place safely, and I would use the chair then too. Fortunately, these occasions are rare for me.

fanfaire,
whose husband doesn't mind pushing her around (in her wheelchair, of course)