Thank you Josephine. I was on Lyrica for the first 6 months, but went off it as it was not helping the pain any and affected my cognitive function. I wouldn't go back on that again.
I have had the CT scan, but no idea of any result. By the sound of it then , there is no hope of recovery.
That makes me devastated really. However, would nerve pain feel like I am walking bone on bone, it feels like bone pain and when the surgeon pressed mid-thigh I jumped a foot in the air? I have difficulty lifting the leg when it is straight, a straight leg raise.
To me nerve pain does not explain, why I can't walk far, the thigh keeps me awake some nights aching, but the pain lessens non weight bearing. Any weight bearing just increases the pain. Also I regularly have referred Rt shoulder tip pain when the pain is at its strongest. The jarring accident a month ago, that caused a terrible increase in pain has reduced back to my normal pain levels. We went to Thailand at the start of June and the extra walking caused the whole leg to cease up for 2 days. Rest was the only way to reset the ability to walk. It isn't a burning pain like nerve pain, it feels like a broom handle has been shoved up my thigh when weight bearing. I do have Fibromyalgia and this caused a lot of post op pain, but this calmed down at the 6 month mark.
I said to the surgeon, it was just like I had never had the surgery done.
Just to say my Mother in law passed away 2 nights ago (Leukaemia) and I got to see her 2 weeks before she passed, but my Sil's blocked me from seeing her prior to her passing. My Husband's family are a strange lot. She is at peace now.
Ireland
