Hi from Canada

[The right way]

DOH!!!!!!!!!!! I meant to say hi from BC, what a duffus I am.
I am fairly new here. Been on a few weeks and I thought I should introduce myself.
I am here because I have diabetes and neuropathy. I have a lot of pain in my feet, legs and left hip and sometimes in my hands. I am trying to find new stuff that helps by talking to others and the computer really helps. My chief complaint is that some days I am fine with the pain I have learned to live with (about a 2 on the 10 scale) and yet other days I have an almost crippling pain in one foot or the other or a hip feeling like it is going out on me, sharp pain with little movement.
My most pain is a constant level of shocks zaps that make you yell out "OUCH" infront of others and they wonder what they did to hurt you, as well as numbness in parts, pins and needles and cramps that make you feel like you stepped on a stone really hard. The yelling out to say the least embarrassing. It is also hard to have to explain to others why you limp nearly all the time but sometimes one way and sometimes the other way depending on what foot or part of a foot is hurting or having the sharp pain in the hip. Somedays I wake up feeling like someone kicked me in the inside arch of one of my feet and just to touch it feels like you are ripping the inside tendons out, imagine walking on it too and having to put a shoe on.
I am now mostly in crocs and croc look alikes. They have no seems inside the shoe and no hard pressure points on the inside of the ankles or over the toes and no heal pressure either. They seem to provide me with the best flat surface I can find aside from the floor which feels good but only a short time because it is a hard surface, is cold and I bump into furnature too often to even think it is a good idea to go bare foot. I already have all of my toe nails bashed up and need to have them cut off because they grew back wrong causing additional pain and discomfort.
I am on pain pills for it which seems to be helping some days at least for sleeping and yet not other days I still get the ongoing pain and some break through pain. I tried nortryptoline at first and now am on Lyrica as a trial. My doctor says I am depressed and wants to add a pill for that. I don't feel depressed but he says it has more to do with the fact that it is a part of these two diseases and because of the way I talk or react to things. He has known me for 11 years now and takes time to talk about problems and so maybe he knows what he is talking about but I don't feel like I want to admit it yet anyway. I am usually the happy go lucky one who tries to make others laugh even at their own hurts so they can get over it faster. I like to tell jokes even about myself and as far as how life has gone, I have been lucky enough to have made it here so far even tho there were a few rough spots in the road and I had to do a lot of it with nothing at times after divource and all.
Now I have a partner who believes in me and takes care of me and even tho there are times when I think this is too much and I get snappy I still have support. We have come a long way together in 9 years while I was becoming pile of pain and I am so happy to have found someone who cares enough to not leave me because at times I feel worthless, especially when I am having a bad run of days and I don't feel like doing much. I have two dogs and a cat that are all out to make me crazy but I love them all. I used to be sporty somewhat but am not so much anymore, I hope to be again. My hobbies are mostly the computer, reading health magazines and studying herbs and natural foods and medicine and the workings of the human body. The learning never ends once you get started.
Anyway that is my life as it is now and I do hope it will get better as far as my pain and I am sure with help and support of others it will get better.
Take care everyone and talk to ya on the forums.