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Suggest Treatment For Guillain Barre Sydrome And Severe Leg Pain

I ve had GBS since 2003 & still have severe lingering pain mostly in both of my legs. I do have a spinal implant to help with the pain but have it turned up as high as it can go so can t walk when I m using it. My question is why does my pain nurse keep lowering my prescriptions when the original ones were helping. One nurse recently was arrested for writing scripts so would that have something to do with it? I asked them but I didn t expect to get an answer. It took quite awhile before my diagnosis when I originally got sick. I was 1 hospital then went to Yale.
Thu, 31 Mar 2016
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hi,

thanks for a brief history of you. since you mentioned you had GBS and post that you started getting pain in the leg. Well, first we should know the physical status of your ability as what muscles are weak here and there. second, are you performing any exercises or not? Severe pain in legs can be assessed by the nature of the pain. it can be muscular or it may be neuropathic. for muscular pain use hot water fermentation and try strengthening the muscle groups of the lower limb. for neuropathic pain you have to figure out if there is any nerve compression due to muscle spasm in its course. Usually GBS patients take longer time to recover and the duration passed in the bed can make the muscles of the back and hip weak which leads to pain in legs. for which a physical therapist can be of help and you can get ease of the pain with TENS and therapeutic ultrasound therapy. Also exercises for the Strengthening the core has to be followed by. to make a note here that you have a spinal implant so assessing the implant by taking an x-ray will be of insight for further help. an ortho specialist will assist you for the same.

with the grace of God I wish you a speedy recovery
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Suggest Treatment For Guillain Barre Sydrome And Severe Leg Pain

hi, thanks for a brief history of you. since you mentioned you had GBS and post that you started getting pain in the leg. Well, first we should know the physical status of your ability as what muscles are weak here and there. second, are you performing any exercises or not? Severe pain in legs can be assessed by the nature of the pain. it can be muscular or it may be neuropathic. for muscular pain use hot water fermentation and try strengthening the muscle groups of the lower limb. for neuropathic pain you have to figure out if there is any nerve compression due to muscle spasm in its course. Usually GBS patients take longer time to recover and the duration passed in the bed can make the muscles of the back and hip weak which leads to pain in legs. for which a physical therapist can be of help and you can get ease of the pain with TENS and therapeutic ultrasound therapy. Also exercises for the Strengthening the core has to be followed by. to make a note here that you have a spinal implant so assessing the implant by taking an x-ray will be of insight for further help. an ortho specialist will assist you for the same. with the grace of God I wish you a speedy recovery