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Very Numb Feet

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roy47530
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For the past 5 years I have suffered with low back pain.

After various tests, MRI scans etc, I am advised that I have Scoliosis and a trapped nerve in my lower back, this has cause a lot of pain especially when walking and standing.

The pain is across my lower back and down my right leg, plus I have a very numb and tingling right foot.

I have had all sorts of pain killing tablets, injections and surgery, non of which has helped, and I am told that I will just have to live with it, GREAT!!

Biggest worry at the moment is my numb foot, my Doctor has put me on Gabapentin 600mg x 3 times a day but the numbness is so bad that it is coming to the point when I will need to think seriously about giving up driving as I am finding it difficult to actually feel the accelerator pedal.

Any thoughts and suggestions of what I could try to overcome this problem, if I cannot drive it is going to seriously interfere with what I can do and where I can go.

Thanks for reading this far.

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