Advertisement - Hide this advert
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
I am getting sensations in my leg such as cold water being poured on it, shocks, tingles and other things i cannot really put into words. I hear that these are signs of regeneration but who knows. I truely from the bottom of my heart wish you the best of luck in your recoveries and will try to check in when i can.Gordon
Hi to everyone.Well I dont have anything new to report regarding my foot drop but I do have another little girl. Her name is Regan Elisabeth and she was born on 3 September - elective C-Section. she was born at 38 weeks and was 5.14 pound (2.6kg) jus a little dot. She is a very good baby and is doing wonderfully. I have just read through the latest posts and am so happy everyone is keeping the forum going. I will post again soon.Amanda
Hi all,Thank goodness I found this site, I have read through most pages and just through reading your experiences I feel better. I had an accident in Vietnam at the end of October. I collapsed on myelf for a long time...I am guessing about 8 hours. I have damaged the nerve and muscle in my left forearm and the nerves in my leg from the knee downwards. I little movement of my fingers but it is improving through p.t, my whole hand is numb except just under my thumb on the back of my hand. I have foot drop and part of my leg and foot is numb and part of my foot has strange sensation, often burning and intense pain. I also have daily pain 'attacks' where I get sharp electric shock type shooting pains which go right through to my left shoulder. I was treated with a fasciectomy (I think that's right) on both my leg and arm. My leg has since been closed through stitching and I have a skin graft on my arm which was put on 5 days ago. I flew back to England 3 weeks after the accident, the doctors in Vietnam told me in broken English that my arm was more seriously injured than my leg, there was evidence of necrosis on the muscle and I went in to OT 3 times to clean the wound. They didnt close it before I cam home. My leg was closed and very little information was given except 'it will be ok'. No testing of nerve function etc. Since I have returned to England the doctors conducted an MRI on my arm and advised me that there nerves weren't severed and will regrow. They gave me a final debridement and grafted me. Regarding my leg, the consultant gave it an examination through touch and asking me questions: 'Can you feel this?' etc. The general consensus was that my leg is fine at this stage and P.T is required to regain function. I am worried, I can put very little weight on my ankle. I can just about point my tows down but no upward movement whatsoever. It doesn't seem fine to me and having read your posts I feel the doctors should be conducting tests to assess nerve function and put us all in the picture of whats going on in my leg. Or am I over worrying and through a physical examination they can tell whats going on and it really is 'fine'? I am hitting the physio as hard as I can and I am noticing improvements - I couldn't even get out of bed 2 weeks ago and now I can walk with my ACO and crutch for a while. The pain is a major burden, although it has too improved, before it was all day and all night in my leg - now I can feel a constant ache and slight tingling but the pain doesn't kick in until just before I go to bed (I don't know how it knows!) I am Gabapentin, anatryptalin, tremadol and morphine. I would love to hear from anyone who can offer me advice or tips. I thank you all in advance and wish you all a speedy recovery! PS I am a 26 y/o male if it makes any difference!dunez
dear everyone, happy Christmas et al I hope you all are having a lovely time. How are your recoveries going? I seem to be slowly improving on the physio side but no regeneration whatsoever. I cannot dorisflex my foot 1mm! I still don't know exactly where or to what extent the nerve is damaged but I think it is all in the knee which is a point of my body which was being compressed when I was out cold, because my other knee was on top of it. The nerve pain basically runs alng a line up to my bottom and down to my foot, from the knee. I am sure I have compressed the nerve, from what I've read decompression surgery is quick and straight forward butmy doctors haven't even mentioned it. Does anyone have experience of this? Also do you wear your ankle supports all day and all night? Any tips for walking without it on? I am trying to walk as much as I can as my leg is getting very skinny but it's so cold out that I last about ten minutes. (My hand injury is extremely sensitive to the cold). Anyways, please keep in touch as I really need all of your support through this difficult and incredibly fustrating period. Happy new year everyone.dunez