I've heard of "Truckers Knee" but I have pain in just one of my quads - Is this normal in trucking?

How long have you been driving a truck for if you don't mind me asking, since you said you got this pain on your left quad a couple of months ago?

And what is it that you're doing to help the sciatica, or isn't there much you can do without surgery? I mean besides the ibuprofen, is there not a more permanent fix than taking OTC pain meds everyday for the rest of your life?

 

I took your advice and bought the Reli-On testing strips from Walmart. Unfortunately I can't get the stupid thing to work. When I put the test strip inside the gauge the gauge doesn't turn on automatically to read the blood sample like they're supposed to. So I turned on the gauge and it goes to a solid line (so it looks like it's ready for my blood sample) but then almost immediately after the message "ER7" pops up and it won't let me exit from the ER7 messsage screen. I'm doing everything else right though as far as pricking my finger with the lancer and I put my finger up to the test strip and the test strip absorbs the blood sample. But the gauge doesn't want to work.

So I'll guess I'll have to go to Walmart tomorrow to have someone help figure out what I'm doing wrong.

That said every time I go to the doctor they take my blood pressure and it's always been fine. If I did have diabetes wouldn't my blood pressure be off at least 1 time when I go to the doctor (not that I go to the doctor that much)?