Diabetic Nerve Damage - am I taking the right meds, can anyone suggest a pain clinic in Dallas?

You are probably having pain due to neuropathy and due to lack of blood flow and oxygen in the leg muscles. The lack of O2 to the leg muscles is called intermittant claudication. It causes your muscles to cramp up when you walk because the blood is not able to carry enough O2 into the muscles when the muscles are working. Really, truely, the only way to fix that is to have surgery to increase blood flow to the legs. Another thing you can try, and you have to have $$ to do this; you could see if any naturopathic Drs in your area do PTX treatments. PTX is phosphatidylcholine and given in IV form it can help to reduce the plaques in the blood vessels and help increase blood flow. I have seen doppler studies before and after with reductions up to 40-60%. It is very expensive and not many naturopathic Drs do it. It may be a way to avoid surgery if you can find someone to give it and if you can afford it-insurance doesnt cover it.

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Taking pain pills is like slapping a band aid on the problem. Sooner or later it will stop working and you will find yourself with a bigger problem of addiction. I know this is probably not what you wanted to hear but I'm giving it to you straight up! You could go to pain management but you will keep needing more and more medication and soon even the highest doses wont work. Buying from the street is not a good way to obtain meds. You may not be getting what you think you are, it could be counterfeit or it could be sources way past their expiration date. You will find yourself with tolerance so high that once you do have the surgery you will not be able to have your pain controlled. You are really taking yourself down a route you dont want to go.