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Originally Posted by Scottish Girl
I'm the same - numb toes, weak feeling in leg etc. I can walk better than I did before the surgery, but am disappointed that I didn't get the "instant relief" I was told I would. Know what you mean about the oven mitts though - I have RSD in my left arm/hand which leaves me with "asbestos" fingers. I can pick up anything hot.
I take Gabapentin, Tramadol and Nortriptylene at the moment, all maximum dose, but I still have pain. I see my Surgeon on Monday for a post-op check, maybe he'll have some ideas. I've never tried Lyrica - I don't know what the equivalent to it is here in Scotland.
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hi scottish girl and hockey,
interesting posts.
i just thought i'd add that i have quite a bit of old nerve damage in one arm, found only two weeks ago during a nerve conduction study and then surgery a couple of days later where the neurosurgeon found an osteophyte and again the old nerve damage which the nerve conduction study had found.
He removed the osteophyte and did decompression which has helped with the excruciating pain and worrying numbness in my fingers but the neurologist prescribed gabapentin around the same time 300mg twice a day and 600mg at night and the two have worked well. the beauty of gabapentin also being that it's not addictive.