Leg Pain

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I have been gone and now back, just saw your post. when I finished chemo, which was for six months, and just before surgery, my legs started hurting, and it was always in the evening. The pain would get so sever that twice my daughter took me to the emergenc room. My oncologist and family doctor did not know what to do. I almost felt like they didnt' believe me. Finaly my doctor referred me to a pain doctor. When I met her I felt like I was running into my mothers arms, I am 58, and felt like a kid. She prescribed me heavy duty pain pills. That was the only thing that worked. Its been almost a year and I am still on them. Each month I reduce them by 10mg. My legs were so weak I couldnt' walk hardly, fell alot, had to get a walker, then graduated to a cane. My pain doctor referred me to a neurologist, He told me that this happens to 1 out of a 100, chemo destroyed my nerve endings, nerve damage is real slow to heal, in my case, it was both legs, top to bottom he said it would take up to two years to heal and then we will not know how much will return. Each month I do get a little better, the stronger I get the pain lessens. My pain doctor put me on another pain releiver cant remember what it was but it didnt' have any narcotice in it, that hurt my joints and hands so bad I couldnt' use them. I am on oxicotin, one at night, they are time released, then throughout the day I take six percocets. I am getting better. The pain I had was and is horrible, its like a deep burning feeling. When I take a pain pill my dr said to drink coffee or someting with caffeine in it, it helps to speed the process and it does. How are you doing now, did you get some answers or help from your doctor? I am thinking about you, keep me posted. Mary