I had an incident after being prescribed celebrex for six months, my stomach turned to fire and I could barely sip water for days, the agony was messed up, I think an ulcer ripped or something, after a large amount of vodka to be sure, but still I would never have expected that, it was the celebrex, an NSAID, after I told them I couldn't take ibuprofen, he thought I'd be fine on it, nope.
Then I went a few years without official pain relief (I have a legitimate condition meriting pain relief) until someone gave me some nefopam.
It worked better than tramadol and had no side effects for me other than my pee changed colour, that's ok.
I asked the doctor if I could get it prescribed, admitting I'd had it already and she's been giving me hundreds ever since.
It's not opiate or benzo, there is no associated addiction risk and I wish I'd discovered nefopam before getting myself dependant on other things, but that's not the point.
Point is you can ask for it, if your guts can't take the NSAIDs especially, It is used for moderate pain and for post operative pain, doctors seem quite keen on it after I tell them it exists. It has no marketing company or is missing from the medical text books, dunno why it's not used more.
