Hello all, a breif history of myself. I was out of town because my grandmother was on hospice. I woke up two days after Thanks Giving and could not walk, my right leg had no feeling. I went to the emergancy room and they did all the test for stroke, heart attack ect., the doctors were truthfull with me and said they could not help me and wanted to transfer me to the univirsity of chicago which i said ok. The bed at UIC never came open and my inserance company would not pay for me to stay in the hospital while i was not getting any treatment so i went home. I was working with my doctors and the nuroligist i went to see went out of town for three weeks. I was trying to self medicate till he got back but the pain got so bad i had to go to the emergancy room. I tried to get admitted to the hospital 2 diffrent trips that week end and all i received was a shot (did no good) and pain killers, I sat at home 2 days crying in pain untill my doctor saw me and got me in the hospital. I was finnaly diagnosed on 1/3/09 the nuroligist finnaly diagnosed me. I feel lucky that it is only my right leg, there are a lot of pepole worse than me so i will not complaine. My wife did a lot of reserch for me/us and that is how we came across this site. I have had two eperderals and two lumbar sympathetic nerve blocks the last one on 1/16/09. I have a Fentanyl patch (75mcg) and norco every 4 hours. I am finnaly getting to try and go back to work on monday and my pain doctor wants me to get rid of my patch, right after i got back on my feet and can get around. Is this right or do i stay with what works? I have a lot to learn and i have 3 doctors that i thought were working together but it sounds like the pain doctor has his own agenda with out talking to me. Sorry this is so long, i promise next one wont be like this. Thank You all, you have helped me more than you know already.