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Originally Posted by BieMi7
I too suffer from back and leg pain. I have had 3 surgery's pain stimulator implanted as well. The back and leg spasms have gotten so bad starting around 2pm till I wake in the morning. Some nights I'm up all night. Started medicines as directed 1st time. But had some very strange reactions. Like I couldn't breath, almost paralyzed, then hives. So I stopped. But the spasms became so bad, I just couldn't bare to go on anymore this way. I started again taking 1/2 a pill 2 times then 3 times. So far I just itch, I can deal with that. It is helping with spasms, that is the best part of all. And OMG if it also helps with migraines, that would be even better, since I am also being treated for them as well. Life can be unbearable. Thanks for help.
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It sounds as if you ARE having an allergic reaction to meds.... I have major back and leg spasms and can not take Cyclobenzaprine/flexeril- it landed me in the ER shaking, unable to breathe properly.... I am stuck with Diazepam- which after 6 years of the same dose- does little if anything any more.... I declined the implant stim... The itching is also an allergic reaction- I had the same with a pain med- again stuck on the only thing my body can handle- yet it's been so long it really does nothing.... I have no other alternatives other than what I take- but to increase dosage - which I prefer not to do- I don't like living my life out of two bottles of false hope- knowing I will never get better and am lucky things simply "stay the way they are".... that is the vicious cycle of chronic pain- you feel as if you have reached a point where nothing works- I have a tendency to push myself too far on what I consider "good" days- and I pay for it- and that leads to my retreating from life because i can not get out of bed- but I live alone and am forced to keep my home going completely on my own- my kids are in their mid 20's- off on their own and because they can't SEE my pain or what's causing it- they tend to dismiss it and are sick of hearing about it.... it's a very lonely and isolating way to feel.....