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He is not paralysed in any way, but has a spinal cord injury C5 and C6, he had an operation to help, but it hasn't. When he walks any distance or uses his hands/arms etc the tendons go really tight in his elbows and behind the knees and he says it is like really bad toothache, it has caused him to walk with a weird sort of limp and he has to keep stopping because of the intense pain. He also stumbles and falls. He takes a massive cocktail of tablets including baclofen and amitriptyline. He is determined to try to walk for as long as possible, even though the doctors estimate he will be wheelchair bound in a few years.
He is having trouble peeing and it is causing him high blood pressure which is also now controlled with tablets, but all the tablets are causing liver problems.
Now to top it of whereas he only used to have mild spasms he is now having really strong spasms especially in the evening and night time, his shoulders go really tight and then he starts shaking. They frighten you half to death and each one lasts a few minutes but they have been going on for hours at a time.
Does anyone else experience these symptoms and have you found anything to help ease them, it is driving him mad. (and leaving us both very tired)
He is still trying to work a few hours a day, but because all pain is internal people treat him as if he isn't really in as much pain as he says, just because he still wants to work.
Any advice would be great from others who know how he feels.
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) and I'm worried that if I have my legs strapped in when I fall out, the chair will come with me and I won't be able to get back up again!! 
