About a year ago, I started having some tingling in my left foot. My doc tested for diabetes in the spring and it came up negative. It got worse over the summer, then a week ago, horrible. Having trouble with sleep and just functioning. I see my doc again tomorrow.

In '98, I was a clerk in the post office. I had severe pain in my neck and arms and eventually, I couldn't lift my arms at all anymore. I had shoulder surgery, which failed to help. Then the neck went. Double discectomy - ended up disabled in 2001. The experience left me with PTSD - flashbacks to pain, pain, pain.

It took 7 years and 3 trips to psych wards for the physical and mental pain to die down. Suicide was often on my mind.

Now it looks as if I have to face this new enemy. I have read through many of the posts on this forum regarding diet, exercise and supplement regimens. I guess it is possible to improve things, but I can't stop crying. I'm trying to pump myself up to keep on but I find myself just wishing it was all over.