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Old 07-30-2007   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
(By the by, some of that pain was likely neuropathic pain. Have you ever taken anything like gabapentin (Neurontin) or pregabalin (Lyrica) for it? They really do help as the pain originates in the nerves themselves, so opiates will not even touch it.)
I can't remember everything I was on at the time except that it got so bad I was losing sensation in my right leg so the operated pretty quickly at that stage.

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