I am impressed with the strength that I feel as I am reading. Thank you for the welcome, I do have a lot of years of experience with pain, I wonder if we should be referred to as the pain specialists? However, the emotional pain that you go through with this is horrible. Such as I have a day where my pain is soooo low, I get so excited, I feel really good, I want to do things, I think I have beat this or gone into remission. Then suddenly out of nowhere, I get this intense overwhelming pain in my right leg and I crash. I call these attacks, it is like living with the enemy in your body and you can't even hide or take a fifteen minute break. I just have to ride out the storm, sometimes hours, sometimes days. I do appreciate the good days though and I take full advantage of them for they are short but sweet.

Bless you all