The EADD Health, Sickness and Pain Thread - share what ails you here.

[badandwicked]

If we lived in the woods and we were in pain we'd be gnawing bark or something. I had training for work today. That could have been painful too. Afterwards I looked at art.

^ that is not boring. That is the difference between man and animal.

If you come to my woods pink you can chew bark & look at art all at the same time

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[brimz]

Me too

 

[pinkpapaver]

My pain was nothing compared to some of the posts made here but that was no consolation at the time.
Practically all day yesterday I had a real bastard of a toothache.
Hoped my methadone might act as a painkiller but no joy so took two vallies and loads of painkillers but nothing would stop the awful pain.
It even started hurting inside my ear and underneath my eye. I didn't think I would be able to get to sleep but thankfully I fell asleep and when I woke up all signs of pain had disappeared so I just hope it doesn't return again.

get to the dentist anyway! tooth ache is awful. I had a tooth that i called my gear tooth. I thought once it was gone my habit would go, it didn't work out like that.
tooth ache is very nasty.
it's all just like phaedo in the llast days of socrates. Socrates has chains taken of and says "how marvellous i feel now these chains have been removed. If i had not of felt the pain of these chains I would not be able to feel the pleasure of not having these chains." he stroked his beard.
pain relief is marvellous. pain disappearance is great too.

 

[pinkpapaver]

in days of old when knights were bold and women weren't invented men made little holes in telegraph poles and walked away contented.

I've never had the urge to draw my "split arse" why do some men like to draw phalluses?

that looks like it would be painful if it were real.

 

[wcote]

She is not worried about gabapetin being addictive, just DHC.

Sorry my post wasn't clear.

 

[Inso]

I just don't see how Gabapentin is abusable. I took fistfuls with no effect, and no repercussions when I stopped taking them. Shit drug. For me. Great for Inso though.

Was great for a while for sure, but its kind of stopped working now which means either ive become tolerant to it or the underlying pain is getting worse. Strange drug though, some seem to find it very abusable, others get virtually no effect from it. Shit that it didn't help with your pain, they offered anything else?

Last night I had gabapentin, amitriptaline, tramadol and wasn't enough. Smoked a load of really nice weed and that really helped, got it down to bearable level.

I want to try pregabalin definitely, what are you prescribed it for ceres?

 

[Allein]

I've been back on the MST the last month or so, those 30/500 Cocos just don't cut it at all.

I need them to enable me to get into the gym and try and get my right leg back into some kinda shape, it seem to be paying off in terms of mobility, hopefully the pain will reduce in time.

It will be a year at the end of next month since I argued with a traffic island, lucky I'm not in a wheelchair TBH and I'll be back on 2 wheels again by the end of the month

 

[adam west]

im n0t gonna say its pain as such but i have pretty much constant (some days i dont notice it) aching around the eye area like the bones around that area or mayble muscles are tense or something i really have no clue. it doesnt bother me as such as ive gotten used to it but just thought i would chime in

 

[Ceres]

I want to try pregabalin definitely, what are you prescribed it for ceres?

generalised anxiety. The one downside with it is like gabapentin, the tolerance can go up really quickly, the doctors titrate your dose up from 75mg twice a day gradually but it doesn't take long to be on 300mg twice a day and not feeling much from it anymore. I'd eat a gram sometimes in one evening and felt really good, got a great nights sleep etc, but i dont do it very often, and have stayed on a low dose so the tolerance doesn't come so badly, some days I don't take it any atall.

 

[Inso]

That's interesting, I have pretty bad general anxiety that has been significantly reduced since I've been on the gabapentin so I guess it has a good effect on that generally. Neither drug is licensed for it despite many positive reports, so it's good that a doctor here is willing to prescribe it for that.

 

[Ceres]

from the bnf

Patients with generalised anxiety disorder, a form of chronic anxiety, should be offered psychological treatment before initiating an antidepressant. If drug treatment is needed, an SSRI such as escitalopram, paroxetine, or sertraline [unlicensed], can be used. Duloxetine and venlafaxine (serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors) are also recommended for the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder; if the patient cannot tolerate SSRIs or serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (or if treatment has failed to control symptoms), pregabalin can be considered.

I guess I only got it after years of putting up with shitty SSRI after SSRI. Because they have frontline and secondline treatments in their guidlines you can't just skip down the list to stuff like tricyclics etc, bit annoying really.


because pregabalin is patented by pfizer still, it's also bloody expensive so there's another reason for doctors to be reluctant to prescribe it:

(from the bnf again)

Capsules, pregabalin 25 mg (white), net price 56-cap pack = £64.40, 84-cap pack = £96.60; 50 mg (white), 84-cap pack = £96.60; 75 mg (white/orange), 56-cap pack = £64.40; 100 mg (orange), 84-cap pack = £96.60; 150 mg (white), 56-cap pack = £64.40; 200 mg (orange), 84-cap pack = £96.60; 225 mg (white/orange), 56-cap pack = £64.40; 300 mg (white/orange), 56-cap pack = £64.40.

 

[Cornishman]

If you come to my woods pink you can chew bark & look at art all at the same time

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What a fine upstanding sausageshire bull terrier.
Best dog ever.

 

[Mailmonkey]

I've been back on the MST the last month or so, those 30/500 Cocos just don't cut it at all.

I need them to enable me to get into the gym and try and get my right leg back into some kinda shape, it seem to be paying off in terms of mobility, hopefully the pain will reduce in time.

It will be a year at the end of next month since I argued with a traffic island, lucky I'm not in a wheelchair TBH and I'll be back on 2 wheels again by the end of the month

It takes a long time, the older you get, for things to heal properly....touch wood, my hips are pretty fine and dandy now, but its taken nearly 3 years for everything to settle in, and to get muscles and tendons i haven't been able to use for years all stretched and working again....

Exercise exercise exercise, and lots of stretching did it for me, but i think too much too soon put me back a bit too....watch out with the gym work you make sure you stop once pain, or major discomfort tell you to.

I dunno how you can contemplate getting on two wheels again, my dad used to be into motorbikes, he had a bad accident when i was maybe 12...i can't remember, but it shit him up enough to give up his beloved bikes...and I've never really been into them, apart from a couple of moped rentals abroad.

Glad to hear you're properly on the mend, finally

 

[Allein]

I've been told to push through the pain a bit, hence the MST which I load up solely for that purpose. I'm on low impact stuff only so exercise bike and cross trainer, I can only do about 10mins on each but I'm managing every week day and it definitely getting stringer and I have more movement.

The bone has healed, I had 2 major breaks in the tibia but the knee was totally shattered so the soft tissue damage was brutal, I could easily just sit about and leave it but I'll end up using a stick for the rest of my life if I do that and I hate using one so bollox to that.

I recommend Nine Inch Nails for painful exercise, it brings out the masochist in me:D

 

[koneko]

Is pain and suffering not just part of being human? You kinda got to expect it... No?

It's arthritis with me, so far and I cope with that well. Though my heart mutters badness to me I like to think its all wear and tear through shenanigans and pay back for the fun I've put my body through. That's ok. Surprised my mind is managing to keep up just about, though it has its pain too...that's ok as well.

Sorry to hear about so much hurt happening here to amazing people I feel a lot of admiration towards, really wish things were a bit more gentle for you

Admire you for coping with this so much x

 

[Mailmonkey]

Where is your arthritis? And is it osteo or rheumatoid?

 

[Inso]

I guess I only got it after years of putting up with shitty SSRI after SSRI. Because they have frontline and secondline treatments in their guidlines you can't just skip down the list to stuff like tricyclics etc, bit annoying really.

That's great they actually recognise the anti anxiety effect of it. Sadly SSRIs are always given first which are really shit drugs in my experience.

I'm a bit worried I'd like pregabalin far too much though, given that I find gabapentin pretty nice and preg is by all accounts far superior recreationally.

 

[Allein]

chronic headaches, insomnia and suicidal urges. does that count as pain? badandwicked was spot on when she said i'm a junkie headed for disaster. i'm just delaying the inevitable.

I would urge anyone suffering suicidal urges or ideation to seek medical help, if your GP is shite go see another it's not hard to do and there are good ones out there.

I'm well aware that in most cases people do not follow through to actual action but it's a sign that you are in serious need of help, contemplating suicide on a regular basis is a miserable experience and I really feel for you, there was a period when I felt I had no other options left, I'm so glad I didn't follow through with my plans.

A great GP said some very simple words to me once when I was very, very low, she said that things would not always be this bad, if I hung in there they would get better, things would change and I would see daylight once more.

They may slip back again some day which just goes to prove how transient life is in general, I have nothing to offer other than my own experiences but if you ever need to talk feel free to PM mate.

 

[badandwicked]

chronic headaches, insomnia and suicidal urges. does that count as pain? badandwicked was spot on when she said i'm a junkie headed for disaster. i'm just delaying the inevitable.

aw I didn't say that exactly. But it does sound as though issues need a review. If things aren't headed in the right direction and you don't seem able to fix it alone its better to get help sooner than later.

What a fine upstanding sausageshire bull terrier.
Best dog ever.

love you Cornish. He's been ill but may be coming home today

 

[headfuck123]

i currently have the worst flu iv ever experienced. Im now 4 days into it and coughing bloody mucus, sweating buckets, shivering and nothing on TV seems to make sense. its kind of surreal but at least its only temporary!