I'm sorry that I cannot relate to your situation but I wanted to let you know I'm thinking about you and I admire your concern for your friend.
Stay strong. *hug*

This has happened to me, except I was put on pain meds due to a fractured skull. My legs still hurt, but they are getting better. Walking around helps alot. I think it helps the muscles get back to where they were.

Thank you for your replies. He still is in pain, but has started working, which is a standing job so maybe that will help build strength and muscle to help with the pain.
Jsnyder, I hope your pain can go away soon!!
And thanks for the hug blonde, is really hard being so helpless so far away. Take care!

when i was 2 years old i was put into coma by my brother... he threw me down my sellar stairs..i was supose to die in coma after 1 month..but 1 1/2 months later i woke up... and my mom said that i had a problem with me..like your friend.. i had pain in my legs...i was told that it ended not to long after...hopefully i helped a bit

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While I only have this problem shin down to my toes I have to say it is a terrible thing to deal with. It feels (at least for me) like how your feet feel when they're asleep only maximize that by 1000 then add in electrical surges. I take neurontin and while it does help it does not completely control it. There is not one moment in the day that this doesnt happen.

My son who was in the crash with me and 11 at the time had it too. He had broke his hip and they put him on amnitryptaline (I am also on that) and same as me it helped but did not take it away. Once he started walking tho, it went away. I am not walking yet but hope that will be the cure for me.

Your friend I am afraid is in insurmountable pain and I cannot believe they are not giving him some sort of pain medication. Find out if they are giving him neurontin and amnitryptaline. If not they should be and you should make him aware of that. Good luck to you both!

I have not had a coma, but i experienced the numbness in my legs, 1000x tingling, like another states here, and the pain. Yet, my legs would go totally numb while at rest, but if i wanted to move and get up, i could. With movement after the total numbness, then the intense prickly tingling started - difficult. I learned to use this happening of intense pain, to go to center - to enter a meditative state. it takes some practise, but after a bit, one learns to do it, thus one can ride out the reaction, and not experience pain, if one doesn't identify with it. So saying, it's an alternative to pain pills and can speed the healing, because when one's mind is quiet, healing happens. Thus also I know that while in deep sleep this is where the most amount of healing happens, because to repair the nervous system, it needs to do so in the brain and in the body, it's all like one big circle. So brain healing happens when the mind-voice/ego rests, so the more one can enter into a meditative state, like deep sleep the faster the healing happens. That the tingling legs happens to me, even i wasn't in coma, tells me that this symptom is related to parts of brain related to that part of body. So i am in a whole body healing process, and the leg symptom is only part of the symptoms i've experienced. Just to be clear, i dont' have restless leg syndrome, it's not a symptom that is there every day, rather it appears in cycles as that part of the body is being 'repaired'.

Betsy

After I came out of my coma, I had pain in many areas......back mostly, from laying for three months. I had numbing in my sides and legs for years, from the nerve damage cause by 9 chest tubes. The initial pain will go away with movement and using of the muscles, but the anger of not getting to get up and just go, lasts for a while. It took me about 6 months to learn to walk again, I remember being very inpatient and angry....over time it passes. The best way to deal with his pain, is to get his mind off of it. My mother kept a journal while I was in my coma, and she read it to me when I woke up, to keep me from thinking of my pain, since they didn't want to give me meds either, for the same reason.
Good luck and may God bless you and your family.
Chaska

when awoke the same thing happened, my feet were the worst, they called it neropathy and after two years the pain is better but is still all numb all up my legs, it was very had to lern to wolk with it but i did, i even drive now.