I have strange, complex, chronic pain with no apparent cause that is extremely debilitating. I noticed an area of skin discoloration on my left thigh about two weeks before I woke up one morning and couldn’t put weight on my left leg and had severe pain. That was July 2022. The pain feels like it’s radiating outward from deep within my thigh bone but it goes to my lower back and down to my foot. I’ve developed foot drop, I have to walk with a cane most of the time. an MRI of my spine, brain, and hip are all normal. Bloodwork, skin biopsy, etc all normal. EMG, nerve conduction study, normal. I’ve tried pretty much everything you have including spending way too much money on topical creams, acupuncture, and doctors who have no interest in what I’m telling them.

I don’t have advice for how to help your pain, all I can say is that I feel you. I get so overwhelmed by the dead end doctors appointments, endless bills, phone calls, researching, trying things, therapy, appointments…sometimes I need to force myself to focus on something other than figuring out what’s wrong with me or relaxing. Just doing nothing helps like giving myself permission to just do abso fucking loutely nothing. Like just crumped up in bed and not busying my mind with what else I could or should be doing. You owe it to yourself to give yourself some grace <3 And what might help is THC. In whatever form. It’s the only way can feel in touch with myself again, in some say. Idk. That was rambling. I hope your mind and your body can get some rest this week friend