So I thought I was out of the woods. I had a scanogram a few weeks ago and, from that angle, everything looked fine. We could not explain the pain though. The area around the distal portion of my hamstring is extremely weak and tender to any external pressure. The last few weeks I have even been waking up from the pain.

I had thought that some of the pain may have had something to do with my workouts, but I hadn't really made any changes. Other than another myodecis (sp?) failure nothing really made sense.

I spoke with one of the Ortho docs who scrubbed in on my last revision. There are three possible causes. The first is the chance of a residual infection. Since I have had re-occuring infections that is a possibility. That doesn't explain the waking up at night from the pain though. The two more likely scenarios are either nebolo(sp?) or another failure. The first, of the two, is where the end of a nerve that has been cut tries to reattach. It ends up growing into a bundle of nerves which are extremely sensitive. That is not uncommon, however if it is down towards the distal end, it would be under alot of pressure from the socket.

The next is plain old muscle failure. There is an angle on my last shots that may show a tear in my hamstring. If that is the case, it has either ripped already, or it is in the process. I guess we'll see. I am getting an MRI and a PET scan soon. That should narrow down the possible culprits.

That's it for now, when I find anything out, I'll keep you updated. Thanks for checking in again. I'll talk to you later-Josh