Hi Mike!

Very interesting stuff. I believe I experience what your calling wind up. It seems I can feel/tell the storm of pain is approaching, and sometimes by the way it feels I can tell if it is gonna be a F5 opposed to a F1 type of pain.

I recently have been put back on neurontin, and the last week or so I have been awakened by some pretty mean nightmares. Yesterdays nightmare had me feeling like my life had changed for the worse all day, even though I knew it was a nightmare and not real, it traumatized me in some weird way.

So the next time I get to see the pain doc, im gonna tell him I want off the nightmare train. I am getting to the point where I would rather suffer than have all these weird side effects. Just using pain meds, and my instinct on what to do or not do activity wise to keep my pain in the "I can handle it arena".

Pain can get to runaway levels, but with moderation in activity, and a few pain meds, I can get it down a couple of notches into a level that I can at least cope.