Guest guest Posted March 13, 2000 Report Share Posted March 13, 2000 Selective muscles have stopped working throughout my body. I have NOT lost sensation though, I am in extreme pain. It started slow, setting into my right shoulder, so bad that the doctor thought I had a rotator cuff tear. Then the pain and debilitation moved to the left shoulder as well. Slowly it creeped down the arms to where I can't lift the telephone to my ear. Then my fingers in the left hand, can't used them at all. Feels like I got the car door slammed on them. I can't straighten then, nor can I hold things. I can not lift either arm past my shoulders (and that is being generous). It has also moved into both hips, and both upper legs and the right knee. I can not operate my right leg hardly at all. I have been bedridden for over two days now. When I get up to go to the bathroom, it is a yelling, weeping fiasco (I am NOT that kind of person – I have everyone running scared at home). Laying flat on the bed, I can not move my right leg at all, and my foot feels very cold. It feels like the most unbelievable body cramp that won't go away. I am either in a wheelchair or on a cane (crutches don't work because the aggravate the shoulder joint pain) with the cane I move from hand to hand and alternate the pressure. This is the first time I am deeply frightened, or at least a new and impacting level of fear I am not familiar with. PLEASE PLEASE tell me this is part of ACM and not something else, like MD? I have never been so scared... the morphine I am on three times a day does nothing to this pain. Please offer advise. I see Dr. Frim on Thrusday, but I am so cared I won't make it there, that my body will quit before I can get them. Please pray for me ACM1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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