I am in constant pain that is worse with the several jobs I have worked the last few years. Carpal tunnel makes it hard for my cook/waitress job I am currently in and made it impossible to continue my job I worked in a cabinet making factory sanding. Back and hip problems have taken me out of my job as a Cna. My doctors aren’t doing anything for any of these problems. Carpal tunnel is considered mild but the symptoms are severe. I wake several times a night, trigger finger, shooting pains, and have weakness sometimes my hand is paralyzed for a few minutes. I am dropping food and change is very hard to pick up and not able to work as swiftly as I am expected to. Splinting doesn’t help and that’s all the doctor advises.

My back issues are being ignored by my doctor (they include partial herniated discs, kyphosis of the neck, scoliosis, bone spurs, and spinal stenosis). I have lancinating hip pain that makes my leg give out on me several times a day and sometimes causes me to fall. Don’t have a diagnosis for whatever the reason this is happening. I have been going to the doctors for all these symptoms for about 5 years now and they just keep getting worse.

I am stuck on what to do for a job or even what to do for these symptoms I have. I have asked for physical therapy but they won’t send me. They won’t prescribe any pain medicine not even shots in my joints and I take as many NSAIDs as I possibly can. I feel like I am being just left to slowly die a painful death (not actually dying but some days it feels that way). My husband and I have five kids between us two are his and two are mine and we have one together. I NEED to work but idk what I can do with only having the experience in food and Cna work. All the office jobs I have applied for haven’t called me back probably because I have no experience in those settings.

If anyone has any tips on jobs I can do that would be greatly appreciated. I have turned to YouTube for physical therapy but without a diagnosis idk what exactly I’m supposed to be doing and most of the things I try don’t work. 😭