Hi
The pain is a dull ache, usually all over. No sweating in the area, nor hot or red. Sometimes clothes, bedding, or just touching my skin hurts. I never know what will cause the pain to go up.

I plan on retiring in Nov. The drug test thing is a random, and even if you have the docs Rx, my employer gives you a REALLY REALLY hard time about it. Sure, people have been caught doing weekend drugs, but the legal stuff, with a script, should be OK. Even if you have a cold, with a bad cough, and doc writes codine, you are in trouble.

The scapular area, is scoliosis, khyphosis, radicuopathy. It goes into my neck, my shoulders, it burns, stabs, shoots, I don't know how else to describe it. I have done cortisone injections there, and now do Botox. Neither work real well, and I don't know what's next. I would like a SCS, but not sure if I'm ready for it. I like my TENS, but the wires are a nusiance.

I'll check out the stickies, thanks