I accidentally shot myself in the thigh with a 22 revolver. The bullet traveled down below my knee cap. The pain was and still is unreal. I have been to five different hospitals in agony, crying and screaming due to the pain. The doctors told me that I have "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.” I take gabapentin three times a day. That controls the unbearable pain. But I still burn bad. I cannot move my foot. It is very swollen. I have been on crutches for six months now. I have sharp pains that appear out of nowhere. It feels as if scorpions are stinging my blood veins. Sometimes, it feels as if my bones have broke through the skin. I can feel them grinding. I also feel sharp pains in my toenails! That is crazy, huh? It feels as if there is a knife poking the toenails. My leg burns all down the calf. I have never felt this much pain. The doctors have started physical therapy. I have a boot on my leg to keep my foot straight. It has not helped. I am supposed to start spinal shots in a couple of weeks. I pray my way through the pain. I sometimes cry uncontrollably. My friends feel so bad when it happens and I am with them. They see the agony I am in and they want to help. They can't. I don't know? I pray they figure something out. I can't spend time with my 1-year-old granddaughter like I want. I cannot do things with my children. I want to walk again.

In 1999 I began having a burning stabbing pain under my right rib cage that went straight through under my right shoulder blade. After multiple tests on my gall bladder (that all came back normal) it was decided to take out my gall bladder. It was done with laparoscope. When I woke up I was in the most unbearable pain I had ever been in. Same type of pain but much more severe. I spent 3 days in hospital and sent home on Vicodin. 12years later I continue. to have same pain and on a Fentanyl patch 75mcg. No one has been able to figure out pain. PLEASE can anyone shed some light on this or have an answer. It is debilitating and at this point some days I would rather not wake up.

I have chronic pain in my neck, upper back, and I have chronic headaches (migraines and tension headaches.) My elbows and arms hurt as well. I have tried numerous medications that have not worked. The only medicine that has given me any quality of life is a pain pill (Vicodin.) Doctors don't want to prescribe those even though I do not abuse them.

I have been on the Percocet for after my knee replacement surgery. I finally took my last pill on Friday I don't have pain I think it was all in my head. Someone told me to see pain management. I want to know what the side effects are after u go off them. I feel like I am dragging and have a headache for a few days. I don't like being on anything that is a narcotic but it's the only pain med I can take.

I am 60 yrs age I am suffering from a trapped sciatic nerve in my lower left back and pain going down my left leg to my foot.

I don't know how it was caused. 3 days ago I started with pain in my left thigh and buttock, which seems to be like a sciatic pain, although I have never experienced this before, so I am guessing. I have been working harder than normal and had been climbing up and down a ladder, so this could have been the cause? I am 64 years old and have a condition called polymyalgia rheumatica for which I take steroids. The pain is intense and I am having great difficulty walking.

I was in an ATV accident 8 years ago and cracked 4 lumbar vertebrae in my back of which I had 3 glued back together in an outpatient procedure. The fourth was going to require major surgery with no assurance of improvement. I'm fine sitting down (experiencing no pain) but when I stand up, I develop a low nagging back pain on my right lower back. I've tried NSAIDs and other oral sources to no avail. Now, I'm considering injections or acupuncture.