I just went over to him and massaged his thighs and calves again because I saw he was sitting in his lounge chair and moving his foot up and down and sideways, like he always does when he is in neuropathy hell!!

So as I massage his thighs, he goes: "why on earth does this take away my pain?". I said "Alan, it's a mystery. Maybe it is auto-immune, maybe this, maybe that"

I mean we can go around in circles, now can't we??

Oh, I've been reading about lyrica and his primary care guy would give it to him but I explained that Alan cannot take neurontin and if lyrica is similar to neurontin, I'm afraid to encourage Alan to try it.

He tried neurontin twice (the lowest dose), and yeah, it took away the pain but he got violently ill (flu symptoms and fevers, both times he tried it).

So he's hesitant about going in that direction again.

Do you think if he tries lyrica the same thing might happen to him?.

By the way, he's allergic to celebrex and all sulfa drugs (if that helps any).

melody