upper back pain

is clonzepam a good medicine for upper back pain

[Qu1nTeR]

Here is my situation. I have been having EXTREME pain between my shoulder blades and along my spine for about 9 or more months. Everyday the muscles all around my back become so tense and it feels like my entire back is being SQUEEZED together and there is MAJOR pressure on my spine! I can get slight relief from this by cracking my back ( which i can do multipul ways to get multipul results but the relief only lasts about 30 to 60 seconds) I know that i should not do that but it is the only relief i have. Every freeking day i wake up in the morning and it feels like my spine has been wrapped around a tree and i can hardly function ( i have a decent pillow top bed) Once i start doing physical activity at work my back STARTS TO BURN... the damn thing feels like its on fire and the spine hurts more so i crack it more(It really ***** because the more i do the worse it gets) The first doctor that i went to told me i have Functional back pain , systematic disfucntion , and hypermobility, Im not sure what any of that means but anyway.. that doctor perscribed me with flexeril( muscle relaxor ) and a script for physical therapy.. the therapy wasnt an option after about 3 weeks of going twice a week. I would get relief from the (PT) rubbing on my back and a T.E.N.S unit but the relief would only last about an hour... 30 bucks for an hour of relief yea right buddy. I tryed a pain management doctor who was a total jerk and told me to take more flexeril ( yea like that helps) and gave me lidocain patches ( negitive) and i went to yet another pain management doctor who after a crappy 10 min talk mostly ignoreing my statements he suggested a flector patch.. the same damn thing he told me the last time i was in that office and gave me samples of( That freeking thing works less then a sweettart to take the edge of the pain).. i had tears in my eyes .. and i said " Please you have to help me dude im suffering everyday" The only responce i got from that was " im not a dude" ... WHAT THE ****.... is that all you took from that statement? at that point i stormed out and left the office..

Anyway basicaly i am looking for someone that was in this current situation or has any insight on what i can do? ive been to multipul doctors and some of them just act liek there is nothing wrong with me.. There is something seriously wrong with me .. please help?
The doctors cant see anything on the MRI so they are acting like there is nothing wrong.. this is ovbiously not the case.. i am not some drug seeking person but i will totaly accept pain medication to stop my suffering.. i am tired of this pain and it is wearing my thin..


Hurting badly everyday,
the pain is wearing me thin

[PinkBex]

I am not a doctor , BUT, I have nursed someone complaining of the same signs and symptoms as you have. Get a refferal to see a Neurologist, ask him about NEURONTIN,/GABBAPENTIN  it has been a successful neuropathic pain reliever. The young lass whom I had looked after had this same problem as you described for years and became suicidal till.......a Professor in Neurology saw her and almost as hey presto she cried with relief. she was on 300mg TDS (three times per day).
I hope this helps.
PinkBex

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