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Please Help!! Serious Nerve Damage - Passed Out on Heroin & Cut My Circulation Off

good on u lauren - 2nd day clean is a big milestone
evryday is a big milestone actually
its a pity the subutex cant work better for u - ur doctor wont put the dose up
if subutex is like suboxone, i was on that and i started at 16mg - i know one guy who was on 32mg!
keep hanging in there - it doesnt matter how many times uve kicked in the past, wats important is ur doing it again
ur hubbys not a smack user is he? cos that cud make it difficult to stay clean
does he support u in staying clean?
 
I regained sensation with physical therapy. google foot drop.
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I have a dropped foot from a car accident. Physio will fix it, they'll also massage it to get the circulation going and get you to do mental exercises (make you try as hard as you can to move your foot). It should eventually come back, you need to relearn how to use it + your nervous system can form new connections (it's not spinal).

Please, physical therapy is important. They need to give you a brace to wear and stretching exercises because the tendons will shorten if you leave your foot in the dropped position and when you regain control you won't be strong enough to lift your foot.

Good luck!
 
hexxx said:
I have a dropped foot from a car accident. Physio will fix it, they'll also massage it to get the circulation going and get you to do mental exercises (make you try as hard as you can to move your foot). It should eventually come back, you need to relearn how to use it + your nervous system can form new connections (it's not spinal).

Please, physical therapy is important. They need to give you a brace to wear and stretching exercises because the tendons will shorten if you leave your foot in the dropped position and when you regain control you won't be strong enough to lift your foot.

Good luck!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you... :D

The best information I've come across by far. I'm about to google foot drop. Thanks for the tip.

I was wondering if me concentrating on trying to move it was helping me at all; you answered that question. I was also wondering why go through physical therapy and not just wait for my nerves to begin working properly again; you answered that too!

I have an appt. @ 12:30 tomorrow, so I'm sure they'll give me an MRI and a brace (much needed b/c I'm very prone to tripping over my foot since it is drooping down - They're $40 @ the pharmacy!), and get me in physical therapy.

Thanks again for the extremely useful info.!

Lauren :)
 
drug_wench said:
good on u lauren - 2nd day clean is a big milestone
evryday is a big milestone actually
its a pity the subutex cant work better for u - ur doctor wont put the dose up
if subutex is like suboxone, i was on that and i started at 16mg - i know one guy who was on 32mg!
keep hanging in there - it doesnt matter how many times uve kicked in the past, wats important is ur doing it again
ur hubbys not a smack user is he? cos that cud make it difficult to stay clean
does he support u in staying clean?
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Thank You for being supportive on my sobriety. I've made it through two whole days!! It wouldn't sound like much to the, "normal," person, but it is a huge milestone when you're talking about kicking heroin. You know, they say that 99% of heroin addicts never recover. Those are scary numbers! :( I know I can do it. I have the confidence and the resources. It will work.

Yeah, my Hubby and I have been in this scene together. He's the one who first took the virginity of my veins. Not that I'm placing blame or anything, I'm totally accountable...I know. He's very supportive of us both staying clean. He's stronger than me at times, and vice versa. That's what's scary about it. One person won't even be thinking of using, then the other one makes one statement about scoring, and it spreads like wildfire in the other's brain. I'm weak at times, he's weak at times, but we're both very strong for the most part. He's on his second day as well, and neither of us have made any comments about scoring, so that's good.

My Doc. already has me on an unheard of amout of Subutex. She prescribes me 150 8 mg. pills every month. That's 40 mg. a day. Of course I don't eat that much - my Husband is on it too. She gives us enough so that we can share because he doesn't have insurance and owes them around $400 due to unpaid bills from 1999. It's $350 for the first visit, then $150 for each monthly visit. Then, $400 a month for my insurance, $70 for the meds. (my insurance saves me $1500 on them - they're $10 a pill!!) So, if Hubby were to go we would be looking at $750 just to get in the door, then he'd have to pay for the meds. out of pocket. So, it would be $2250 for the first month, then $1650 per month thereafter. There's no way in hell we could ever afford that! So, the way we're doing it is working fine. We have enough for each of us to eat 20 mg. a day, plus she gives me (60) 1 mg. xanax a month, which helps tremendously.

Thanks again for taking the time to write me. You don't know how appreciative I am to know that there are people out there willing to listen to a stranger - good people.

Have a good evening,

Lauren :)
 
I'm glad that you and your partner are doing this together. You are very lucky that you have such an understanding Dr. who is willing to give you enough meds to share with you partner. Stay strong and remember to come here for support!

I wish you the best of luck! :)
 
Glad to hear you're cleaning up Lauren, 2 days IS a big deal to anyone who knows what heroin addiction is like, so don't shortchange yourself. Stay strong and keep us informed. :)
 
they might say 99% of heroin addicts never recover but they say the same things about meth addicts....and im both (in recovery now)
ive beaten the odds and u can too - and ur hubby being in on the deal (no pun intended) makes it even better in some ways cos u can support each other
much luck to both of u
 
'They' say a lot of things, most of which are exaggerated, oversimplified, or downright wrong. Like DW says you can always beat the odds. :)

How's your foot?
 
i fell asleep on my left hand wrong almost 2 weeks ago.

cant lift my wrist

after a minor med then an ER visit they took an x ray

radial nerve palsy...gave me a splint and said it would come back on its own

still isnt any better...i would go into detail but im typing with 1 hand

good luck!
 
Its called 'Saturday Night Palsy' Wiki it

edit: I guess you figured that out. This kind of thing tends to happen to the more hardcore junkies cause they are vascular deffecient to some degree due to them losing so many veins, and thus more susseptable
 
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An old friend of mine shot up while on a waterbed with a friend. Friend #2 left friend #1's house, and friend #1 continued laying on his waterbed with his legs dangling off the edge of the bed, just below his knees. He laid like this for about 5 hours, and eventually, when he woke up, he discovered he had lost the use of his legs. I don't remember specifically what happened thereafter as we weren't talking at the time that this happened (I was informed later) but I do know that in his case, it took actually physical therapy (aka rehabilitation) to recover the full use of his legs... Pretty scary shit.
 
It's really sad that we still live in a day and age when addicts are discriminated against in the hospital setting. Even though medical students nowadays are taught from day 1 that addiction is a disease and to treat it as such, there's an undeniable stigma associated with drug misuse in our society.

It's important to know your rights as a patient and to know certain "buzzwords" for when you feel mistreated. Every (or at least 99.9%) hospital have a non-discrimination policy that also applies to drug use. If you're at a hospital and feel as though you are being given a lower quality of care, or are being treated poorly, remember this phrase: "I want to speak with a Patient's Advocate." Ideally the doctor is supposed to always be the patient's advocate, but hospitals have specially designated employees (usually social workers or the like) who act as an unbiased third party in these situations.

Many good-ole-boy doctors forget sometimes that they are accountable for their attitude and quality of care when dealing with ANYONE, addict or not, whether or not they see them as a "problem patient." All it takes is a wake-up call from the hospital management telling them, "guess what, if you provide a different standard of care to an addict you could get us both sued," and you could be helping out countless other patients in the future.
 
I hope this isn't too personal but I was just wondering why you started using again after so long clean? Did something trigger it or was it just a spur-of-the-moment thing?
 
I didn't read all the replies, sorry, but I'll tell you what I know...

Same thing happened to me, pretty much. Wrist was LIMP, couldn't move it. Had to do physical rehab for like 6 months, and it took like a full year for all the strength to come back.
 
Hello, my names Keith...

Ive had an experience like this before in my left arm, passed out on oxies last Feb and it caused some nerve damage to the inside of my arm and my first 3 fingers... Now almost a year later I have full use of my arm and hand again but my fingers are still a bit tingly and not as sensitive to touch....

Sadly tho...

The night before thanksgiving I ended up passing out on my right side and didn't move for many hours, as a result I woke up thanksgiving morning and my right arm was very swollen and numb as well as my right leg, I was very weak and couldn't move, my hearing was messed and I noticed I had pissed myself... I called my mom and they rushed me to the hospital, there things got worse, my arm started to throb and swell more, they thought it was an infection and put me on antibiotics and gave me morphine for the pain, finally the pain was too much and it felt like my fingers were going to explode, so finally I went into sugery... Now here I thought they would just put in a tube to drain what I thought was fluid from my arm, what happened was I was cut along the inside of my arm from my shoulder to my palm, across the back of my arm from the wrist to the elbow, a small cut was made on top of my shoulder and one on my tricep to relieve the pressure... It was at that time they saw how bad it was and more went wrong... My kidneys shut down and I was put on a resperator... i was in ICU for 3 days on a respirator fighting for my life apparently... after all that i was moved to the surgical floor on allot of drugs, by now Ive had a total of 2 surgeries, apparently i had one while i was in ICU, then i had my third where i was told they were going to look and clean up, then i was told they were gonna start closing, so i had surgery 4 where he cleaned and closed, then surgery 5 where it was almost completely closed and i was told the muscles that allow me to raise my hand, straighten my fingers and work my thumb were removed cuz they were dead... at that point i was told that tho it was mostly closed, they couldn't close it and id need a skin graft... surgery 6(since thanksgiving) i had them shave a piece of skin from my thigh and they used it to close a spot near my wrist on the bottom of my forearm, then finally after a month in hospital, where i had my b-day, i was released November 10th....

so heres what happened...

by me laying on my one side i was cutting off blood-flow to my arm, because of how long it was my arm swelled a bit and from lack of new blood nerves and muscle was damaged... when i woke i moved around and the serge of new blood caused the very thirsty muscles to expand, but they tried to expand farther than they could go and some started to die... now when muscle dies its filtered through the kidneys and the muscle particles are too big for the small holes in the strainer like tissue of the kidneys so thats what caused them to fail...in all, as the Doctor put it, i had a corridor blockage which when opened turned into cellulites(sp) which caused muscle to die which explains the removal of the muscle and the kidney problem... Now what doesn't make sense is, cellulites is caused by a cut of some form, I didn't have a single cut on my arm...

now I'm left with a deformed forearm, no use of my hand, i have little or no feeling in the arm except pain, which I'm on 45Mg of morphine every 12 hours and 900Mg 3 times a day of stuff for the nerve pain and my right foot and all the way up the back of my right leg is asleep cuz apparently I damaged my sciatic nerve too...

Ive been looking on-line for some answers cuz this wasn't just SNP, this was something else and this is the only thing Ive come by that deals with my situation and I was wondering if you've learned anything new, or if anyone else could help me...

thx

-Keith
 
I think with your sciatic nerve damage shiatsu massage therapy would be good, and seeing a physio therapist to get your muscles working again. Gentle flexibility exercises daily, like rehab from a car accident or similar.

It doesnt matter HOW you did it, what matters is the damage done. Treat it like the physical injury it is without the "I passed out on drugs and fucked up" thing. There will be a lot of info around on musclw wastage rehabilitation on the net.

Take care and stick around this place mate!
 
About 4 months ago, I got pretty hammered before passing out....woke up the next day and my pinky, ring and middle finger of my left hand was completely numb. I figured it'd wake up after a few minutes, but no dice....

I don't have insurance and was quite broke at the time, so a Dr. visit was out of the question. The worst part is that I play guitar....things weren't too easy to play with 3 numb fingers. I could move them, but not with the same speed/accuracy.

After about a month and a half, the feeling came back over the course of a couple weeks. For a while, I was accepting life with numb fingers....
 
i.ve had 2 similar experences.1 was from ducking off on methadone and xanax and passed out in a chair at tha computer desk while my arm was against tha arm of tha chair.when i woke up my arm was sleeping.i thought it was ok till tha 3rd day then i was like wtf? and went to tha emergency room and they called it sum shit like drop wrist.they sqid i damaged a nerve in my arm that controls my wrist and the doc told me that it rarely comes back without surgery.well surprisingly a few months later i got use of my wrist back.then 1 other time it happened but it wasnt from drugs it was from a surgery i had gotten.tha doc said they must have never padded my arm right and it fucked up a nerve in my elbow and it made tha left side of my left had feel very weird and my 2 fingers.i was supposed to have surgery for that but after 3 months it finally came back and they called this 1 ulner nerve neuroplexia or sum shit like that.but it sucked ass cuz pain medicine did not work for tha pain.i ate/shot/snorted so much pain medication and tha pain still lingered around,but all is well now.thank god
 
Dont piss on me for bring back old topics but this recently happen thats been somewhat covered on this thread and needing to know a few more informaation.

I passed out in the bathroom I guess cutting off my circulation to my right knee area. When I woke back up I noticed my right knee more so on the right side of the right knee is numb, I thought It was just asleep for a second, Than I felt it this morning and was still in the numb state..Are you all saying with therapy the feeling will come back? or does it just regain feeling on its own?

dam atleast Im not the only one this has happen to i see:(
 
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