Hi All,
I recently posted about PN in my buttocks, legs, and feet that resulted from a rock climbing injury 8 years ago. Basically, it was a stupid stunt that I regret. My safety harness had been worn too low on my pelvis throughout the day and I fell repeatedly and even at one point was hanging for about 10 minutes with all of my body weight bearing down on the harness which was strangling my pelvis. Ever since, I've had skin crawling sensations in both buttocks that goes down the back of my thigh, muscle fasciculations in both legs (developed 8 months after injury), buzzing in feet, and meralgia paresthetica in both legs. Must have stretched/crushed the sacral nerves. This had been very troubling to me because I could have prevented it with some more awareness on my part. But what's done is done and I have to live with it. I've had 5 EMGs over the past 8 years and all show nothing wrong. The docs didn't even see the fasciculations in the EMG and they told me that if there were fasciculations they would have definitely shown up on the EMG because its such a sensitive test. They haven't really provided any help other than prescribing Neurontin, which does nothing for me. My reflexes are intact, there is no weakness, and my muscles in general are very strong. It's the sensory nerves that I am trying to help out.

I've tried a bunch of things to help. I've done hot yoga, acupuncture, chiropractic, qigong massage, weight lifting, supplements, but nothing's really helped me. Since the docs can't pinpoint a problem and tell me there's no nerve damage at all, I've decided to look for my own solutions. I recently purchased some high gauss magnets after reading the magnet thread here. So, we'll see how they do. But getting back to my main topic...

I wanted to ask about lidoderm patches. I have a strange feeling that my nerves have healed physically, but my body might not have healed energetically, leaving me in a constant state of heightened awareness about my condition, with a constantly overstimulated sympathetic nervous system, which only gets compounded by my worrying, and inability to relax.

I was thinking about trying out the lidoderm patches. Maybe I could place them strategically upon my sacrum in order to control the tingling down my buttocks and hamstrings...Then maybe they could go near my feet to control the buzzing sensations.

Does anyone agree that this would be a wise plan? I'm hoping that by doing this for a while it will teach my nerves to relax so that they are not in a constant state of panic. I feel my nerves still keep firing because it was so traumatic for them to get injured. But I want to teach them that they can stop firing and go back to normal eventually. My goal is to use the patches and the magnets to relax the nerves so that I can permanently rid myself of the neuropathy.

Does anyone think this will work for me? I feel that this is my last ditch effort and that I'm running out of options.

Thank you,
Joe