Hi, my name is Drew, I am a 42 year old male and found this site while searching out information on one of my conditions. Below are screen caps of my conditions (physically and not including Anxiety and depression) I have been fighting SSDI since Oct 2010. I used to do commercial/industrial HVAC for 12 years and even went to college for a few years (part time and was unable to receive a degree) until I was unable to sit (2009 ) so that I could change careers (sedentary work) only to find I should not have been there as it made me worse and my doctor stated the same thing saying I shouldn't have been there in the first place. I have chronic moderate to severe pain daily along with taking MS Contin 100mg 2x's daily, 10/325 Norco for breakthrough, 6mg tizanidine 2 x's, 400mg neurontin (greatly increases the MS Contin effects and pretty much knocks me out when I take it. Must ambulate with a cane. I can't sit (haven't sat at a family dinner in at least 4 years now). Surgery isn't an option unless it becomes an emergency issue (facing potential quadraplegia having my spinal cord deformed @ C3-4, C4-5, C5-6, and C6-7, worst at C5-6, C6-7) as I have multi-level conditions compounded with osteoarthritis.
Hope to get to know some people on here and help some as well.

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