Thank you for the reply. I have found so far that the Zonegran dumbs down the pain very very little. Not enough to have any significant effect, if any at all on the pain. I was able to get my Trazodone filled today so that with the Zonogran should allow me to get some sleep with a mild amount of comfort from pain, but not much. I realized I have been using an analgesic cream and not actually Capcaisin, however I picked some up today and will try the results of all 3 tonight and let everyone know how it went. Also, in response to an earlier message that I meant to respond to and forgot to, I did have an actual EMG done and those were my results. I do not know anything else and have not seen anything else.

Moving onto more of why I joined this site, I joined this site not only for the wonderful advice that I am receiving from so many members, but also because of my depression from this horrible disease. It has pretty much taken over my life and as I stated before I have no friends to turn to, no one to talk to, no one who really, truly understands what I'm going through or the pain that I'm in. I went out today with my girlfriend to get a few groceries and had to use a power scooter chair at wal-mart and all I wanted to do was hide my face. I was so embarrassed that I am a healthy looking 27 year old guy scooting around in a chair and 80 year old women are walking around me like it's nothing. I wanted to park in a corner and just hide from the world. Hoping no one would ever find me. What do you do?