I do sometimes have burning pain in my right leg, mainly the foot and calf. It varies in intensity but generally feels as if that part of my leg has been injected with acid.
Hi Pat.....Yes, that's the feeling, like acid has been injected. You can actually feel the heat radiating from it. I have the pain across my shoulders and neck, down my l. arm, under that area and it wraps around to the front of my body, the ribs are also caught up in it and frequently come out of place. 30++ years of it, brought about my sneezing with my arm in the air as I brushed my hair. I used to be on a patch that controlled it, but of course that was stopped by the government b/c others were overdosing on it. This has happened a few times before in the ever-changing times of trying to control the pain so many of us suffer. If you don't have pain, be grateful...oh, please be grateful. Some suffer much worse than I do, and I'm almost at a loss for words when I hear their stories. In my case it has now moved to the r. side, also. I don't expect my physicians to "heal" me, they suffer with their patients and do the best they can. Something new that may work, a special cream from a compound pharmacy; they try and I'm grateful.
The temperature changes are no fun, either. I tend to run hot one minute and freezing the next and can't tolerate being near air-conditioning vents (even though I need a/c). We never run it at night, but cool the room down as neither of us likes to be near a vent. It's worse already this year, though....I can't even bear to think of the summer ahead.
Well, that's all too much and interfered with the saying itself. But we have to look for practical ways to deal with this illness, set some goals for ourselves and do our best to return to our families and other loved ones. If not, we're lost forever. Be strong....please. Yours, Lenora.
