Aloha! All; First Of All Please Excuse Me For The Caps Today. I Have A Very Good Reason. I Have Not Slept For 4 Months. I Had My Pump Turned Down Over A Period Of 6 Months Or So, Praise The Lord. He Took Away My Sciatic Nerve Damage That I Had For 34 Years, Praise The Lord. Anyway This Open Another Can Of Worms For Me. I Cannot Sleep. My Pump Was Set On #11, Then I Got It Down To #4, Praise The Lord, Indeed. But By Doing That I Made My Spin Aware Of All The Other Things That I Have Wrong With It, Bulging Disk, A Leason,spinal Stenosis,massive Scartissue, Nerve Damage ,etc.

By Not Sleeping For More Then A Few Minutes At A Time I Am Having A Hard Time Writing, Please Forgive Me. I Am Having My 2nd Pump Reprogrammed So That During The Hours Of 8m To 4:30 They Are Bring It Up Ten % At A Time. This Is To Try To Help Me Sleep. I Go Into The Dr. Tomarrow For Another Increase. I Have Been In Chronic Pain For 35+ Years. Praise The Lord He Has Watched Over Me All This Time,indeed. I Am A Disabled Retired Machinist, Love Our Lord Jesus Christ, Sailboating, Cars, And Of Course My Wife Of Almost 30 Years, Praise The Lord,indeed.

Yes I Am Born And Raised In Hawaii, My Parents Are Are Also. It Is Beautiful To Live In, But Like Everything Else Everything Here Cost 30 Percent More Than The Mainland. No Kids. Love This Website. I Guess This Is Enough From Me. O By The Way, The Pump Is A Very Great Tool For Pain, I Am On My 2nd One Now. The Pump Was Out Over 13 Years Before I Found Out About It, We Are Backwards Here In Hawaii. We Never Had Any Painmanagement Until 10 Years Ago. Aloha! And God Bless Us All.

And a warm welcome to NeuroTalk! You sound like you're in good spirits. I'm glad things are going well for you. I hope you stick around and talk to us some more. Good luck and God's blessings to you!

Idealist

Happy to see you have decided to join in with gang. There a good number of people here to help in any way they can. Hope to see more of you around.

Darlene