Jumprope85
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Good evening,
So I had the pleasure of being a front seat passenger in a head on collision late last week with total speed of collision being around 60mph. Hit my head a little on impact and don’t have a great recollection of collision itself just the before and after.
I have rushed out providing first aid and help to others and about 30-40 minutes in the severe pain in neck, back, shoulders, head, the works has kicked in. Ambulance insisted on me going A&E who gave me full CT scans of head, neck, back, chest and X-rays. Everything looked ok just soft tissue damage to muscles, tendons etc and mild concussion so I was discharged with codydramol 10/500 which did very little for me.
GP a few days in as pain getting worse and muscles seized up. Can’t move head up or to right. Can’t lift arms above shoulder height. Pretty extreme pain at night like 7/10.
GP gives tramadol IR 2x50mg 4 times daily. Naproxen 1x 500mg twice daily and 7 days worth of diazepam 1x5mg which I thought was a very reasonable and sensible prescription.
sadly naproxen and tramadol wasn’t touching the pain. Diazepam helped me sleep but not much else.
Further chat to GP yesterday - same surgery but different GP. His solution.. paracetamol. I’m not convinced but go with it.
Today I try some physio and they tell me they can’t worth with me as muscles too rigid, can’t move and I’m clearly in too much pain. Tell me to come back once pain managed better..
So GP again tonight; he gives 14x5mg diazepam to help with spasms but says I’m at maximum dose for tramadol so nothing else he can do.
I like the GP and don’t like to second guess advice but I had been hoping for perhaps some oramorph instead of tram as I think it would work better for pain relief. Or maybe even a bupe/fent transdermal patch (which I used for previous spinal injuries and they were great) to allay their concerns of abuse/recreational use. I didn’t want to push this though so didn’t mention it.
not really asking for medical advice here as it’s not the place for it but wondered if
1) anyone found any way to make tramadol a bit more effective for pain relief
2) anyone away of any other pain relief options better than tramadol that my GP wouldn’t be as concerned about prescribing
3) anyone had a similar experience and have any advice for what worked for them?
to be clear my goal here is pain relieve to allow me to crack on with physio and get back to full duties at work. Not interested in euphoria or recreational use or anything.
Any advice muchly appreciated
Thanks
So I had the pleasure of being a front seat passenger in a head on collision late last week with total speed of collision being around 60mph. Hit my head a little on impact and don’t have a great recollection of collision itself just the before and after.
I have rushed out providing first aid and help to others and about 30-40 minutes in the severe pain in neck, back, shoulders, head, the works has kicked in. Ambulance insisted on me going A&E who gave me full CT scans of head, neck, back, chest and X-rays. Everything looked ok just soft tissue damage to muscles, tendons etc and mild concussion so I was discharged with codydramol 10/500 which did very little for me.
GP a few days in as pain getting worse and muscles seized up. Can’t move head up or to right. Can’t lift arms above shoulder height. Pretty extreme pain at night like 7/10.
GP gives tramadol IR 2x50mg 4 times daily. Naproxen 1x 500mg twice daily and 7 days worth of diazepam 1x5mg which I thought was a very reasonable and sensible prescription.
sadly naproxen and tramadol wasn’t touching the pain. Diazepam helped me sleep but not much else.
Further chat to GP yesterday - same surgery but different GP. His solution.. paracetamol. I’m not convinced but go with it.
Today I try some physio and they tell me they can’t worth with me as muscles too rigid, can’t move and I’m clearly in too much pain. Tell me to come back once pain managed better..
So GP again tonight; he gives 14x5mg diazepam to help with spasms but says I’m at maximum dose for tramadol so nothing else he can do.
I like the GP and don’t like to second guess advice but I had been hoping for perhaps some oramorph instead of tram as I think it would work better for pain relief. Or maybe even a bupe/fent transdermal patch (which I used for previous spinal injuries and they were great) to allay their concerns of abuse/recreational use. I didn’t want to push this though so didn’t mention it.
not really asking for medical advice here as it’s not the place for it but wondered if
1) anyone found any way to make tramadol a bit more effective for pain relief
2) anyone away of any other pain relief options better than tramadol that my GP wouldn’t be as concerned about prescribing
3) anyone had a similar experience and have any advice for what worked for them?
to be clear my goal here is pain relieve to allow me to crack on with physio and get back to full duties at work. Not interested in euphoria or recreational use or anything.
Any advice muchly appreciated
Thanks