Hello! Hoping to find some ideas on this forum. So here goes:

March 25, 2015 - woke up in the middle of the night with stabbing pain in the front of my right leg over the shin area. So bad I thought I was literally getting stabbed (or how I imagine it would feel). Pain lasted for 5-6 minutes straight and then subsided. This went on for almost a month of pain and then it would go away for 20-30 minutes and then again pain for 5-10 minutes straight. It was excruitiating and exhausting...me screaming and crying out.
Doc was called immediately and they had me see a Neurologist who thought it might be a problem in my back. In the meantime, they gave me a prescription of Gabapentin and Norco and sent me on my way. Never ordered any tests or anything. I was medicated for almost a month, but still had the pain, and then it went away. I weened off the prescriptions by the end of May.

August 2015 - Pain again out of nowhere. This time it lasted for about 2 weeks, I started taking the Gabapentin and Norco again to try to manage the pain (but it didn't work very well)...after the 2 or so weeks, it went away and I again weened off the prescriptions. I called doc as soon as it came on and he told me to just keep taking the medicines and see how it goes.

November 2015 - Pain again out of nowhere - called doc again - said same thing as before and I said no- this has to be something and he needed to help me. He wouldn't so I called again and spoke to another advise nurse who got me to another doctor...they ordered and MRI of my back and the xray. Both came back good - no problem with my back, no nerve compression, my xray didn't show anything they said. After about 2-3 weeks, the pain again went away.

January 2016 - Pain again, but less....I switched doctors (since my primary before didn't seem to want to help me). New doctor took me off Norco and Gabapentin and put me on Nortripline. I started taking 1 per night. Pain went away (again). I continued taking 1 per night as she said she wanted to check in with me in 8 weeks. She also ran full bloodwork in January, which showed everything was fine - no diabetes, no weird readings...blood counts good. High for inflammation.

April 2016 - 2 weeks ago - PAIN! Got in with a different doc (mine was out), gave me a shot of tramadol and prescription for that and a muscle relaxer. Still didn't work. Couple days later, my doctor gave a prescription for Predisone. I asked her to do something else...another test or something - I can't live like this. I can't work like this or take care of my kids. She called Orthopedics and I have appointment on the 16th for a limited bone scan to see if possibly I am fracturing my tibia bone and then it just doesn't heal completely and then a couple months goes by and it's weak so fractures again?

I am 38 years old. No other health problems except I'm overweight (BMI 37). 6'0" tall. I am not active since last March when this started as mentally, after the pain went away, I am afraid to exercise. However, last month I did get back to going to the gym because my doctor wants me to lose weight - but all I've done at the gym was walk on the treadmill and then do some weight lifting (arms) machines. That's it.

I need help. This pain is unreal. When it happens, I cannot bear any weight on the leg, I can't move it, don't touch it because it hurts and it's like electrical stabbing pain just in that one area. I do not have swelling. When it's not happening, it's like a completely normal leg.

Thanks for any help and if I haven't covered something, ask and I'l answer. I just want to find some more ideas to take to my doctor or if anyone has seen this before.

Angel

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