Did I read that someone tried webotin? Or something like that...we are meeting with our cancer doc monday and my husband has had nothing but extreme pain for the past year from chemo...he is on 2700 mg of neurton, 5000 mgs of B12 and percacets daily..we do nothing anymore..he gets through work (he is a tile contractor) comes homes and sits in his chair and takes his pain pills, smoke some herbal meds and off to bed he goes, next day same thing..he cannot walk anyplace..is in constant pain all the time..as a couple we do nothing at all..except eat together me on the couch him in his chair..cannot touch forks, knives..eats with plastic..cannot stand any type of draft on his feet..we are going to ask the cancer doc for a pain specialist..something has to happen...any suggestions?

yes it is less pain when i sit down and i too have the same exact back problems you do. just had my mri looked at and the doc said that even though i have those issues at l4 l5 s1, there was no reason for my feet and legs to hurt so much with the symtoms i have.
i would never consider surgery unless i saw three people who were tops and then i would try other modalites first. (just dont do prolotherapy shots if you have nerve pain in your body)
surgery is how all this started for me
only foot surgeries.
we want to believe that surgery will help us and sometimes it does. i know two people who had the same surgery that i did and it came out fine. they got to live life. mine did not. i do not want to scare you, but from all that i have read, surgery can bring more problems.
i am in agoniziing pain and if they said lets operate on your back we will fix you and you will walk again, i would doubt it, unless they could prove it to me.
pain is awful and i stay at home all day too. i have to go back to work on sept 4 and i do not know how i am going to do it. last year i worked, and came home and sat, i never do anything anymore, and no one has asks me to. it is a quiet life. i am mostly by myself. even my family goes and does things now without me.
it is not a good way to live.
i am so sorry for all of us
stephanie