After 4 years of waiting...I have been approved for SSDI!!

[PATXgirl]

60. Thanks for the information above and in the other post. This is what I'm dealing with now.

Just saw my primary care physician yesterday and all he wants to do is run tests and more tests to see what's causing the numbness and cramping. His major concern yesterday was that I wasn't up to date on my mammogram or Pap smear...and there was an off chance that breast cancer could be causing the pain. REALLY? Uhhh, hello...nerve impingement due to a previous herniated disk? I told him I can't afford a whole battery of these tests right now but I need something to change so I can function again.

Last time, when the herniation first happened, they were able to give me steroids for inflammation and muscle relaxers to stop the spasms in my back. Between that and exercise I was able to get the inflammation and pain to a manageable level, get stronger in my core to get back to moving around.

Right now it feels like I'm living life in 10-20 minute windows. There are days when everyday activities that you take for granted, like standing in a shower, washing dishes, taking the dogs out, doing the laundry, going grocery shopping are now things i just have to push through or broken into manageable segments between bouts of extreme Charlie horse type pain in my hips and calves and both legs going numb from the tips of my toes to my hips.