Misc The Pain Management Mega Thread version 3.0

[Coraline]

Let's please keep this thread on topic! I don't think this world needs more anger and hate. We come here for help and compassion.

Please no more threatening posts. Please let's all stay on track and focus on our pain problems.

I haven't had much relief since yesterday. I just woke up half in half asleep dealing with drama.
This is an awesome place. I cleaned up this board if I missed something let me know.
Even internet stress of reading hateful posts can drive up pain levels. So please be respectful of others people's feelings.



How is every bodies pain today? Mine is a 7 with a headache of 10.
I did sleep till noon. It was peaceful sleep.

 

[Bluefrogger]

A repeat in responce to Zoeylynn's request and all who might have missed -

My bones are aching and the RSD is really sensitive, burning, and swollen today. Then for two dam hours, my foot and leg turn freakishly cold. While still burning! ! ! I get so frustrated!
LOL "freakishly!" Is that a word? The weather keeps changing, right now just the humidity that keeps changing and still hot! Not good for a lot of us.

I have a shout out to all of the leg pain sufferers on the thread:
(There has been a lot of talk earlier in thread about nerve type pain in limbs and jolts, jumping, stuff like that.) I have sleep apnea - snoring really bad, and can't sleep at all without a bi-pap machine, blowing forced air down my throat all nite to keep my airway open. This is due to the relaxers, opiates, one partially collapsed sinus, etc.
Anyway, getting to the point, during a sleep study, they told me that I had RLS (restless leg syndrome) showing up on the test! My sleep doc. gave me Ropinirole , a generic for Requip, and my legs feel great in the a.m. now. They were feeling like crap before and I didn't really know why? The doc. also told me that increasing the dose when I was tapering or in a withdrawal, would help the jerks and spasms. The medicine works differently than a muscle relaxer. It specifically targeted for muscle spasms. (Said to take neurontin also for w/d relief.)
Anyway, I didn't notice that Requip had been mentioned before in the Thread, so just wanted to put it out there for anyone in need.
Hope everyone's done the best they can for the day That's all we can do!entioned before in the Thread, so just wanted to put it out there for those in need.

Zoeylynn, hopes this info. can help the leg problems and just remember that the S.S., and tried and proven IME Dr's are all very corrupt!
Doomed, Hope it's getting better for you!
Samsonite, so disturbed that after all you've waited for was more waiting. So sorry, hang-in there!
Tricomb, this yteek, sounds like a hurtful idiot that only likes to pick on someone, so they think it will make makes themselves feel better. Hope someone can find a good home for him/her someday soon.

Hope everyone's done the best they can for the pain today!!! That's all we can do!

 

[lady_stardust]

I really really really can't stand the nurse at my pm office! I went in this morning to get my refills and she wrote not to fill my OxyContin or Soma until Saturday! Wtf?! That puts me 2 days after 30 days. She didn't even mention it. I found it out when I dropped off my other scripts. I pay the same copay whether I see her or the doc but I only see the dr every 3 months. I'm going to requests all my visits with him from now on. I can't stand that bitch. She is also the only one who makes me drop UAs. I have not tested positive even one time in the 3 years I've been getting treatment.

On a positive note, I did get my percocet w/o acetaminophen this time. Even that was a war with the hag but she ended up doing it. Now I have to live with just percocet and steroids til Saturday.

Hope you all are doing well and having better luck with your drs!

ahhh! the same exact thing just happened to me! i'm new to the area, and thus new to this dr office, or i would have raised more hell than i did - and i didn't notice the script was postdated until the pharm called me.......BITCH!

at least u have SOMETHING to hold u over and at least, i'm assuming. keep u from wds. btw, i've never been a big fan of Kratom, but after two days in bed, in a desperate attempt to get any relief, i dug up this Kratom i had, mixed three heaping teaspoons of the powdered kind w/apple sauce, choked it down w/water, and 30 min later felt like a new person! didn't help my pain, but it killed the wds, (which of course, were adding to the pain) (fyi - before the Kratom i had tried diazepam, neurontin, soma, baclofen, pot, alcohol - NONE of it helped the wds - then after getting relief from the Kratom, the pot helped too, but not before, probably because i was too far gone)



poor thing - best of luck to u
g

 

[TyLannister]

Hope yalls pain is low today.
-"Ty"

 

[Allein]

Thanks Bluefrogger, Requip sounds interesting I will have to try and find out if it is scripted in the UK.

Since smashing my left knee and lower leg to bits about 8 weeks ago the twitching has just got worse, with full body jolts as I try to sleep, I'm a bit concerned that my AD (Venlafaxine) maybe playing a part so this medication looks all the more attractive.

 

[lady_stardust]

Good morning patients, how are you guys doing?

Samsonite that seems horrible, if it's any resolution my PM doc took me off soma cold turkey from 2800mg --> 0mg, and then later when I begged for a taper, he RX'd me 10 days worth of 700mg a day..... He said its the first and last time he'd write an RX for carisoprodol.

yea - what's the deal w/this? Soma helps my pain, but my pm is totally against it - won't let me take it, had me bring the old rx i had of it tomhis office to destroy.....and now i've tried four or more different muscle relaxers and they all suck for one reason or another. he just said "it's a horrible medication and will be taken off the market soon, and it's addictive." like huh? the rest of the stuff u r rxing me isn't?

 

[TyLannister]

Yeah, I am not one hundred percent positive on all the specifics but depending on where you live, i believe it is starting to be noticed by people/being scheduled higher and/or scheduled at all. It is a shame that the FDA puts the fear of God into these docs so instead of using it they just flat out refuse. Sure, you could say that they are lame pansies, but at the same time if I am a dr. and know that the FDA is just looking for people to destroy i guess you cant blame some of them.

 

[muvolution]

Ty, let's keep this thread about pain management, not people's character or past. Also, please do not use real names here. We all have a desire for privacy, and there is no need to breach it. I dont know of this issue, and it is not my, or bluelights's perogative to find out about it.


I am sure that if you can be respectful to everyone, they will be more than happy to discuss issues of pain management with you, but condemning someone as drugseeking or manipulative is not constructive whatsoever. Any further attacks of that nature will be infracyed for.

Conversely, anyone attacking ty unecessarily or unfairly will be infracted as well.



Please respect each other and the rules of the forum.

 

[laCster]

does anyone else have fibromyalgia with TMJ; what was the best thing that helped with either of them? diet, exercise, or medications?

i am on suboxone, gabapentin, and hydroxyzine and im still in pain; i exercise 4-5 times a week, eat healthy, i stopped chewing gum/yawning loud, and i tried using a mouth guard at night, but im still in pain...i just got swtiched to lyrica and hopefully it will help much more.

i was curious about muscle-relaxers though, do they help with TMJ and fibromyalgia ?

thanks
-lac

 

[lady_stardust]

Yeah, I am not one hundred percent positive on all the specifics but depending on where you live, i believe it is starting to be noticed by people/being scheduled higher and/or scheduled at all. It is a shame that the FDA puts the fear of God into these docs so instead of using it they just flat out refuse. Sure, you could say that they are lame pansies, but at the same time if I am a dr. and know that the FDA is just looking for people to destroy i guess you cant blame some of them.

yea, butit still doesn't make sense to me because my pm has me on CIIs, so his point, or opinion, that Soma is addictive, is pointless, i.e., i'm already on HIGHLY addictive and abusable meds, from him. and the reason i liked the Soma was because it helped me take ness narcotics, a lesser of two evils, surely? i've tried looking online and can't find an explanation for this thing he (and it seems some other pms) have about this medication.......

 

[lady_stardust]

does anyone else have fibromyalgia with TMJ; what was the best thing that helped with either of them? diet, exercise, or medications?

i am on suboxone, gabapentin, and hydroxyzine and im still in pain; i exercise 4-5 times a week, eat healthy, i stopped chewing gum/yawning loud, and i tried using a mouth guard at night, but im still in pain...i just got swtiched to lyrica and hopefully it will help much more.

i was curious about muscle-relaxers though, do they help with TMJ and fibromyalgia ?

thanks
-lac

i read that methadone is one of the few narcotic pain meds that helps signifigantly w/fibromyalgia and/or neuropathy. have u tried it? re:TMJ - i've only had a few attcks and had to go to the ER for IV valium - ridiculous... but to answer your question, since the valium did help those few times w/my TMJ, then i would suspect that it, or weaker, muscle relaxers could help.

good luck
g

 

[tricomb]

I'm a drug addict with legitimate chronic pain issues, sometimes I take my medication in a non-traditional way that I have no problem classifying as abuse.

Occasionally, pain permitting, I'll go as long as possible before taking my prescribed opioids, and/or skip doses, often waiting until I'm in some decent withdrawals, and then I'll dose my medications as prescribed. Sometimes I'll take one pill, sometimes I'll take more than one at once. This provides me with mild euphoria and better analgesia than if I had taken the pills q3h. It also allows me to sleep mostly interrupted through the night, without having to take a sleeping pill, there are multiple reasons why "abusing" my medication is appealing.

My docs don't have a problem with me taking my entire days worth of pills in one dose, my PM docs have made that explicitly clear. As long as I don't call in early, they don't mind. I don't sell any of my medications, the way I take my medications is in my eyes, a :victimless crime". I don't care whether people agree or disagree with my bill of health.

yea - what's the deal w/this? Soma helps my pain, but my pm is totally against it - won't let me take it, had me bring the old rx i had of it tomhis office to destroy.....and now i've tried four or more different muscle relaxers and they all suck for one reason or another. he just said "it's a horrible medication and will be taken off the market soon, and it's addictive." like huh? the rest of the stuff u r rxing me isn't?

It's total bullshit! They didn't want to RX soma but their compromise was to increase my dose of oxycodone.
Definition of irony, right?

 

[laCster]

i read that methadone is one of the few narcotic pain meds that helps signifigantly w/fibromyalgia and/or neuropathy. have u tried it? re:TMJ - i've only had a few attcks and had to go to the ER for IV valium - ridiculous... but to answer your question, since the valium did help those few times w/my TMJ, then i would suspect that it, or weaker, muscle relaxers could help.

good luck
g

yah methadone is out of the question. going to the clinic every morning? i dont have time.. and also the pain killing effects of methadone usually only last 3-5 hours while it fends off WD for over 24 hours. in OMT, the only way to go for pain-relief is non-opioid drugs.

valium is also out of the question. my doc knows i abused benzos in the past.

i tried to get orphenadrine but she said no, and asked if i wanted to continue hydroxyzine, so i said yes to that.

 

[tricomb]

If you have a personal problem or concern with me and wish to continue speculating about my extensive history of drug abuse, hypocrisy, etc feel free to direct it towards my PM inbox. Two senior moderators have already weighed in here, it's pretty clear that this is not the place for this discussion.

Yeah, I am not one hundred percent positive on all the specifics but depending on where you live, i believe it is starting to be noticed by people/being scheduled higher and/or scheduled at all. It is a shame that the FDA puts the fear of God into these docs so instead of using it they just flat out refuse. Sure, you could say that they are lame pansies, but at the same time if I am a dr. and know that the FDA is just looking for people to destroy i guess you cant blame some of them.

You mean DEA right?

 

[HaZeX]

what the fuck do you care about Tricombs meds, or how he uses them?

Jeez.

 

[laCster]

if you are on bluelight, you atleast enjoy using drugs recreationally. yeah yeah, this is a HR forum, but cut the bullshit, mostly everyone on this site enjoys doing drugs with the exception of TDS lol...

i think it is hypocritical to call someone out for abusing drugs, and in the end it;s extremely trivial. no on will care 100 years from now if you abused you pain medication, mostly everyone woul have already forgotten about you... cynical but true...

leave the epeen battles to pm's, don't waste this space for shit that doesn't matter, people are trying to get help here...

 

[muvolution]

Yteek, i just sent you a pm. Please review it. I hope you can continue to be a positive contributer to bluelight, it is your choice.


Note: all further offtopic posts (from anyone) will be immediately infracted for. The topic, btw, is Pain Management.

 

[lady_stardust]

I'm a drug addict with legitimate chronic pain issues, sometimes I take my medication in a non-traditional way that I have no problem classifying as abuse.

Occasionally, pain permitting, I'll go as long as possible before taking my prescribed opioids, and/or skip doses, often waiting until I'm in some decent withdrawals, and then I'll dose my medications as prescribed. Sometimes I'll take one pill, sometimes I'll take more than one at once. This provides me with mild euphoria and better analgesia than if I had taken the pills q3h. It also allows me to sleep mostly interrupted through the night, without having to take a sleeping pill, there are multiple reasons why "abusing" my medication is appealing.

My docs don't have a problem with me taking my entire days worth of pills in one dose, my PM docs have made that explicitly clear. As long as I don't call in early, they don't mind. I don't sell any of my medications, the way I take my medications is in my eyes, a :victimless crime". I don't care whether people agree or disagree with my bill of health.




It's total bullshit! They didn't want to RX soma but their compromise was to increase my dose of oxycodone.
Definition of irony, right?

precisely!!

but from what u wrote in the begining of that post, (i too am an addict w/legit chronic pain - a shitty combo)(oh, but my pm would cut me off if i took my months dose all at once - pretty sure - he'd b concerned that i'm selling them i assume, dispite the titanium cage holding my neck together) you probably understand why i was willing to start trying every other muscle relaxer on the market - all of which suck for me - rather than upping my breakthrough meds......because i don't want to tempt the demon in me

 

[BiggDirty01]

Ugh, took 2 hours to get my CT scan completed. What a waste of time.

Methadone is really making me tired. My ADD meds are like no match for the methadone/oxycodone regimen I am on. I asked about increasing my concerta dose or switching me to another med, but they are worried about further drug interactions.

Oh well. Hope everyone else is having a pleasant, pain-free day!

Mods: I, of course, want this thread to stay on topic. It is up to you guys to ensure that I (or we) don't have to defend ourselves from vindictive outsiders.

 

[tricomb]

I would highly recommend using hydrotherapy whenever possible, the weightless sensation is extremely beneficial and the water has a calming effect on your body and mind, even if it's only short like 15 minutes, it makes all the difference.