mrincognito1221
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Hello all,
I am managing a chronic pain condition resulting from musculoskeletal and nervous system pathology. I am currently taking tramadol, with oxycodone for breakthrough pain.
One issue I have is trying to alleviate/tolerate pain while maintaining my cognitive function. I work in technology sales, and it requires me to be very alert. For nerve pain I have tried gabapentin and pregabalin, love their efficacy toward pain control, but find I am not sharp enough to handle my workloads and grasp new information effectively.
I intentionally under medicate my pain to retain cognitive functional ability. My pain doctor has suggested a shift from tramadol to a buprenorphine pain patch, I have yet to make the shift due to an imposed "step therapy" mandated by my insurance company, but the transition will be soon.
From reading other threads here, I have seen that some use tramadol or tapentadol for BT pain, due to the fact that these medications aren't exactly analgesically opiate driven, and as such do retain some pain relieving qualities?
Because I am naive to painkiller medication, can anyone speak with experience to what works, what they have experienced, and/or what they find helps them in a situation such as this?
Brandon
I am managing a chronic pain condition resulting from musculoskeletal and nervous system pathology. I am currently taking tramadol, with oxycodone for breakthrough pain.
One issue I have is trying to alleviate/tolerate pain while maintaining my cognitive function. I work in technology sales, and it requires me to be very alert. For nerve pain I have tried gabapentin and pregabalin, love their efficacy toward pain control, but find I am not sharp enough to handle my workloads and grasp new information effectively.
I intentionally under medicate my pain to retain cognitive functional ability. My pain doctor has suggested a shift from tramadol to a buprenorphine pain patch, I have yet to make the shift due to an imposed "step therapy" mandated by my insurance company, but the transition will be soon.
From reading other threads here, I have seen that some use tramadol or tapentadol for BT pain, due to the fact that these medications aren't exactly analgesically opiate driven, and as such do retain some pain relieving qualities?
Because I am naive to painkiller medication, can anyone speak with experience to what works, what they have experienced, and/or what they find helps them in a situation such as this?
Brandon