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Just want to thank everyone who replied to my post below about leg pain.... - Kiki

Posted: Jan 11, 2010

I got some very good suggestions that I hadn't thought about and am going to try. I really appreciate all the helpful replies from everyone. Thanks so Much!!!!

You're welcome - bips

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Check out Dr. Garth Nicolson (I think that's how you spell it). He has done the most research on it. Sounds a bit like a conspiracy guy but he still is very smart.

My ex was in the Gulf War and they actually find a lot of these symptoms and mycoplasma infections in family members of vets who are sick. I still am waiting on my Lyme's disease test too since it could be that as well but it's basically the same treatment. Good luck-- let us know.

Can I add one more? - Old part-timer

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I've mentioned this before and people have chuckled about it, but don't wear a shoe on your pedal foot. You can feel the pedal much easier and don't have to move your foot nearly as much. I often have my foot nearly resting on the pedal even in the stop position and it only takes the slightest feather touch to start the dictation. Also you don't need much movement to the right or left to hit your FF and Rewind bars when you can easily feel them.

People actually wear shoes when they work? LOL (nm) - Mushroom

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I could never go back to working in an office! - Old part-timer

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I would have to sit there with my shoes off (or at least one of them!)

Working at home/Surgery (sorry, I wandered) - Vikefan

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Yeah, that, and I'd have to show up in my bathrobe and jammies along with slippers, no contact lenses or makeup and hair not brushed. I do all that during lunch. Oh, and I'd have to bring my 2 pugs along. LOL.

When I broke my foot last August, I was in that stupid cam boot for 4 months (there was not only a fracture - tarsal navicular - I tore the muscle from the bone and also tore ligaments and tendons) and that darned boot was so big on the bottom, I couldn't work the pedal with it because it was almost the size of the pedal itself. Of course, I'm used to using the foot I broke (which was also my driving foot so I ended up house bound for a long time too), so I had to learn to use my other foot on the pedal. It was very awkward. I'm not sure I'd be very coordinated trying to use the pedal with shoes again.

Also, since 1995, everywhere I've worked, I've been required to wear scrubs. I don't have the wardrobe to go work in a hospital. I so rarely buy myself clothes. My biggest splurge in the past couple of years was after my hysterectomy - I went thru all my undies to throw out all the ones ruined by my irregular and extremely heavy periods. I found out I couldn't throw any away until I bought more because I only had 2 pairs that weren't ruined out of at least a couple dozen. Sad. But I had fun shopping for new ones!

Though we always wanted kids and it never happened (we do have our 2 pug children), that hysterectomy has been one of the most liberating things I have ever done. It was definitely the most painful but dang has it been liberating! I still have my ovaries and have no idea what menopause will bring (I'm 42 now, 2 years s/p the procedure and I've read I'll probably go thru it earlier than normal because of the hyst but whatever) but I'm so glad to be rid of my uterus. Good riddance. Not only was it retroverted, I had been having severe back pain for 2 years and nobody could figure out why. Turns out that my good old tipped back uterus that had caused me mild to moderate back aches for most of my life had managed to grow a softball-sized fibroid on the back size that was embedded in my spine. And to remember the disapproving looks I'd get from specialists, like I was only out for narcotics. I made sure to call every office I visited for that pain (I had also gone thru multiple injections and other procedures) to tell them we found the cause. A neurologist saw me, sent me for a bone scan and metaphorically patted me on the head and said it would go away with time. I followed up with him after the surgery and I said "You remember that back pain, doc?" He did. I said "You were right - it did go away - after my hysterectomy and the removal of a large mass embedded in my spine". He gave me a very dirty look. I gave him one back. Jerk.

Wearing shoes - onlyhuman

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Yes, wearing shoes is important. I have not worn shoes for years and now I have osteoarthritis in my toes and a hallux valgus deformity in my right foot (where I use the foot pedal). It may be the weather here up north. I don't know, but please wear shoes.

Just to confuse the issue, I always wear shoes - Happy MT Robin

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I didn't when I first started, but now I always have shoes on. I wear slip ons that have about a 1 inch rubbery sole on them due to having plantar fasciitis. What I have found, though, is that I rest my foot on the heel of the shoe instead of on my actual heel. This takes a lot of the pressure off of my actual foot and I don't have any sort of heel pain that comes from that.

Another suggestion, compression knee sock - Tia

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I didn't read all the replies, but something that has helped my aching calves is to wear a compression sock, the kind that they recommend for travelers to wear when they will be sitting on a plane for a long time. They have helped me immensely.

Kiwi, your leg symptoms really need to be checked out - possibly by vascular doctor

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I have done this type work now for 35+ years. What you describe should not be happening. I think there might be even deeper problems than just aches. You need to see about yourself, perhaps going to vascular doctor instead of taking a pill here or a pill there. Could have blood clots going on or blood supply that is limited to the legs.

Leg pain - Rosepetal

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13 years ago I had aortobifem bypass at the age of 49. I had claudication, 92% blockage of left fem artery and 99% on right. Consistent leg pain that eases up with rest is something that needs to be addressed ASAP. It took about 5 years for it to progress to the point I couldn't walk anymore than 50-75 feet and had to stop because of excruciating pain. I would then continue walking, again a short distance and stop. I worked at the hospital during those years and was on my feet all day. Go figure how I could get this at such a young age, doctor even remarked about it.

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