re: Has anyone ever dealt with nerve damage before?

Have a chiropractor look at you. They can do amazing things to allow your body to heal itself.

Had major surgery on my legs, and they screwed up and gave me a pinched nerve. The pain was excruciating. About 4 months later they had to kill the nerve, and now I can't feel my skin from the front of my right leg, to the top of my right foot. It's not like Mr Deeds where you could put a fire stoker through it (I can still feel the inside and bottom of my foot), but I would realize if you put a feather on top of my foot.

I am dealing with this right now. I was in the hospital for 15 days in December.

I had a nerve conduction study in January and my neurologist said that I have severe nerve damage in my lower legs. He said that it was caused by being in the hospital bed for so long. My right leg is worse. At first both of my legs felt like they were on fire constantly, then my lower legs, and now it's only in my feet. I feel like I'm waking on a baseball in the ball of my foot. I can't feel the outside of my lower legs.

I had to walk with a walker for 2 months. I'm down to one crutch now. I'm trying to get my range of motion back. I have more pain at the end of the day after I've walked all day.

My neuro said that the nerves will heal but it will take time. I'm relatively young and I don't have diabetes or any other condition that would slow the healing process. He said it would probably be 6 months before I'm 100%.

I take Lyrica. It works much better than neurotin. I'm up to 150 MG 3 times a day now. I still have pain, but it's not as bad as before. I am not having any side effects from the lyrica.

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 I couldn't even wear shoes, I had to where slippers for like six months

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Same for me. I wear shoes to walk into work, then I put my slippers on. My company has been extremely accommodating.

I may go crazy if this lasts 2 years.

When my Sciatic Nerve was inflamed the only way I could get it to calm down was with a heating pad.

I had a heating pad wrapped around my calf and sweat pants on.Extension cord hanging out the bottom.

I was taking 30 mg oxycontin 2 x a day then.I was begging them to increase it.

They told it wouldn't help with the nerve pain.

It sure wouldn't have hurt.

When they had to break open my ribs to remove part of my lung, they had to sever nerves. I can't feel a good foot by 5 inch section on my left side.

Every now and then, a synapse will get through and it will just be hilarious amounts of pain and it'll vanish after about 3 minutes.

I used to be insanely overprotective of that side, but now I will just politely tell people not to touch me in that area. I don't understand why people want to run their fingers over a scar, but it's just so uncomfortable to not be able to feel anything but the pressure.