Greetings and salutations, ladies, gents, and gender bents

@thepeculiarpanda whatcha eating?
Muscle pain or bone pain?

@TheRealBarbossa A sandwich from Publix. :) Ham, turkey, and roast beef with banana peppers, pickles, lettuce, spinach, mayo, spicy mustard, and deli dressing.

Muscle pain. Legs and feet have been constantly cramping since 2010 and sometimes they like to do it more dramatically haha.

@thepeculiarpanda out of all of those ingredients I only eat lettuce and bread 🙈
But you enjoy, friend.

Have you seen your doc about it? If so, what do they say?

@TheRealBarbossa I did! It was delicious. 😌

Oh yes, many, many times haha. It's coming from damage to the area around my spinal cord and there's unfortunately nothing to be done about it. If it was the spinal cord itself, it could be treated, buuuut it isn't. Yay bodies!

@thepeculiarpanda damn... That sucks. I'm not a doctor or anything like that, so not gonna waste your time making suggestions you probably already tried.

However, I struggle with restless legs most nights, but found a leg gel that actually helps within 10 minutes.

If you're interrested, I can try to find an american equivalent for you to try.

(Or whichever country you're from. Your profile doesn't say)

@TheRealBarbossa I'm honestly just so used to it at this point that it's whatever for the most part haha. On the rare days when my legs don't hurt as much, it actually freaks me out. It's been there for so long now, I forgot what life was like without it. 🤔

I wish it had been caught before it got to the point that it did but hindsight is 20/20 I guess. :)

@thepeculiarpanda It sucks being in pain so constantly it becomes the norm. But I'm glad you've found a way to manage in spite of it.

@TheRealBarbossa It's just really frustrating. I didn't even find out why it was happening until a couple of years ago, despite having complained about pain at EVERY doctor's appointment I ever went to. It's just not taken seriously.

I stay stoned most of the time. :) I also work out and stretch throughout the day. It keeps it manageable for the most part but having to drive whacks it out pretty badly; I'm not used to sitting still like that.

@thepeculiarpanda I find it hard to believe there's nothing to be done to ease it, tbh.

Hopefully medical science finds a way to help you very soon.

@TheRealBarbossa I've been to the spinal center in Atlanta which is about the best around and the only thing they had for me was a Baclofen pump which would have been internal and I'm just not comfortable with it. I had really bad experiences taking Baclofen orally so I can only imagine how much worse it would be straight into my bloodstream haha.

@thepeculiarpanda oof... Fingers crossed for medical breakthroughs then 💜