I think it comes down to how much your doctor likes you. I was in severe pain and my doctor told me he couldn't give me anything stronger than lortabs...I just had to have surgery. I had the surgery which lead to me nearly dying from an infection setting in. Had to learn how to walk again and spent 2 months in the hospital. I'm in more pain now but he upped me to percs. My boyfriend went today to the same doctor and told him the Lortabs weren't working and the doctor said no problem and put him on percs. Guess I don't ******** good enough.
I have recently become completely frustrated by my fibro. I work as a CNA and get told to change jobs, not gonna happen. I recently saw a thing about Inflamactin? Anyone else try this? Does it help. The meds Dr's prescribe don't work at all. I just am done with that mess. My primary wants me to go to a pain management dr but I just have given up on it.
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dear kathy...i just saw your post. how frustrating it must be. it is either your doctor or where you live to makes it so hard to get answers, etc. for you. you are in Canada? well, anyways...there are solutions...you just need to find the right doctor, and dont let ANYONE tell you the pain is in your head! It took me 2 years to find out about this burning pain in my mouth and gums! they want to tell you (cant think of the word now)...but this turned out to be something called Burning Mouth Syndrome...very rare. But i had to research for 2 years to find out about it...and I HAD an injury that had caused a tooth nerve root to be damaged...which is what caused it! Neither the dentist nor doctor knew about the disorder. anyways...let me know if you receive this post and i maybe can find something to help you out...i mean a solution or idea. I have Nerve damage, which causes my problems...not just talking about the BMS. It is Peripheral Neurology with damage to Autonomic nerves. i have appt. for Neurology test, but it sure as hell did not take 8 months to get the appt. less than a month wait. and that is not soon enough for me, with my problems!
dear Jennifer..not sure if you are still seeking answers..it was 2008 when you asked. let me know if you are still having problems..i will try to help u with an answer.
Sept. 1, 2015. I have just come back from a doctor who told me that the two types of pain I have might all be in my head--very real to me, but psychsomatic!
I told her my pain (lower and mid-back pain and fibromyalgic-like symptoms) are very REAL, that I NEVER see a doctor unless I can't stand it anymore, and that I HATE taking medications. I need to regress to an emergency department visit July4 (my back, in particular, had suddenly become acute after being painful from the end of June, and my fibro symptoms were steadily moving up my arms and legs from the extremeties towards my core since mid-Feb; these two types of pain seem to be working in concert, each aggravating the other). I was prescribed Cymbalta 30 mg, threw up for 3 days, and stopped (NO one is going to convince me to stick with it--if it causes that reactive a response, then it must be a poison, as far as I'm concerned-glad it works for many, but I'm not willing to throw up for 2-3 weeks if I can find another remedy.). July 6, I visited my clinic, and was prescribed Lyrica 25 mg, which did nothing for back or neural pain, and which I stopped after 2 1/2 wk trying and saw my family doctor, July 22. This was when MY OWN FAMILY DOCTOR told me that there might not be a name for my 'pains'. I felt she had told me that she didn't believe me. I left her office devastated, and realized that she had not given me something else to try. Retrospectively, she prescribed amitriptyline 25 mg (has done nothing for either pain, and made me 'drugged' during the day, even when taking 1/2 dose). TODAY I saw a clinician again and was prescribed Effexor 37.5 increasing to 75 mg after a week for back pain. [Interestingly, I had been on Effexor, the lower dose, for 20 years for mediating hot flashes associated with menopause, which worked very well, but which I voluntarily discontinued 19 months ago, as I am certainly now through menopause at age 65!] I KNOW I tolerate Effexor well--BUT what I am trying to convey is that, here in Ontario, Canada, when I asked that there must be SOMETHING out there to try besides Cymbalta for specific back pain, she began this thing about my two types of pain might all be in my head! itold her I was willing to persue any and all avenues to get relief, and AGAIN said that there must be SOMETHING out there that is non-narcotic that can help, at least, with the back pain. I had already told her that I had very little relief from taking 2x500mg acetominiphen every 4 hr [Tylenol] also with the maximum dosage of 6 muscle and back pain relief during the day [Robax Platinum=200 mg ibuprophen [Advil] + 500mg methocarbamol]. Hence the prescription for Effexor. I don't know yet, obviously, if it will help. But when the medical community accuses you that it might all be in your head because I don't 'present' like 95% of patients--that's just cruel. I blatantly asked her, 'What if I'm the other 5%?', to which she gave no answer. I have only ever had x-rays on my back, again because I don't 'present' abnormalities that 95% of the population would show. So, AGAIN, what if I'm one of the 5%?? What do I have to do to get an MRI to see if there is something EVERYONE is missing???? As I have found, I'd have to LIE and say that the pain I have from the back is going down one side of my body (which it doing only slightly and only recentll) to get an MRI to check!! Can't see a neurologist for 8 months!! HOW DO WE GET THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS (this is now 5 different doctors-family doc, 2 emerg docs, 1 doc-associate, clinic doctor) to BELIEVE you?? And IF they believe you, why does it take 8 months to see a neurologist, who likely won't have any better answers? There are no pain management centres near here. Now what????