Arg! After almost three months free from nerve pain, my neuropathy is happening again! Since I got so little sleep yesterday, I went to bed at 9:30 pm tonight. After sleeping for ~1.5 hours, I was woken up by a sudden pain in my left heel. It’s just starting so the attacks will increase in frequency and intensity. There has been no remedy in the past other than taking Tylenol and trying to sleep it off. Typically the attacks lasts 24 (or more) hours and is bad enough to make me cry out in pain each time. Unfortunately, if it runs it’s normal course, I will be sitting through the worst of it during my next dialysis session. In the past, these pain episodes would be at least about a month apart. I just had one last a week ago so this is a change for the worse as well.
I just took one of my dwindling Tylenol + Codeine pills. Hopefully I can fall asleep and have the pain disappear early. If not, it will be a terrible dialysis session tomorrow.
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No luck. The pain is increasing in intensity each attack and causing me to breathe harder. Since I’m still short of breath from coughing and surgery chest pains, it’s making breathing even harder. I don’t think I will be able to sleep for the next 24 hours until this episode passes.
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It’s 1:45 am and the pain is a lot better. This is after using a massage wand for 20 minutes and the violently swinging my left leg to get the blood flowing. I think it’s been over 15 minutes since the last pain attack so maybe it has subsided early. Or it’s the Codeine working and I’ll be in pain in a few hours as it wears off.
Life with chronic diseases 