Tell your doctor that the pain is so bad that sometimes you have to take a shot of liquor. I've gone to two different pain centers and have had to tell each Dr that the pain was so bad I was taking a shot of whiskey at 3 in the morning. Also tell them that you are sleeping 2 or 3 hours a night because of the pain. And that you really do need to sleep. Hope that helps
This may help others in the future.
My younger sister was on pain pills and still feeling pain.
At her own expense she was tested for a genetic trait. Her body is unable to process most of the pain medication that is given to her.
This may be why your pain level is higher.
The main thing that you need for chronic pain is a long acting opiate and not short lived like lortabs or Percocet. Always talk to a pharmacist in these matters. They can be better help and then you won't feel like an opiate addict.
The main thing that you need for chronic pain is a long acting opiate and not short lived like lortabs or Percocet. Always talk to a pharmacist in these matters. They can be better help and then you won't feel like an opiate addict.
Btw, no idea why there are numbers in my post go figure.
That is a very good question that I would like to know I am a veteran which they don't like to give meds too by the way no matter what I'm on 20 milligrams of Percocet day fives 4 times a day but sometimes I need more than that because I have no one I actually do more physical work than I did when I was in the service or at least for the last 3 years and I read this article about the DEA and 2107 if they are getting prescriptions for. Are they seriously wanting an epidemic on our hands of people trying to self-medicate it's insanity I talked to my doctor little bit about my medication he said he would do no good to raise my medication he said he might have to put me on Dilaudid or Lorcet I don't even know what any of those two are but my thing is I'm doing more work bending excetera excetera so it's not that my body has gotten used to the medication it's my body is doing more stuff anyway if anybody's got not anything you say holler at me I don't care I'm for the girl asking if she can raise our meds or how to ask the razor men's I don't have an answer cuz I sure wish I knew myself considering that I'm getting everything from the dod I'm sure there's rules and regulations it's not even out there for the civilian world, I really do hope everybody finds relief for the pain without having a break the law because that's actually b*******
I think it comes down to how much your doctor likes you. I was in severe pain and my doctor told me he couldn't give me anything stronger than lortabs...I just had to have surgery. I had the surgery which lead to me nearly dying from an infection setting in. Had to learn how to walk again and spent 2 months in the hospital. I'm in more pain now but he upped me to percs. My boyfriend went today to the same doctor and told him the Lortabs weren't working and the doctor said no problem and put him on percs. Guess I don't ******** good enough.
I have recently become completely frustrated by my fibro. I work as a CNA and get told to change jobs, not gonna happen. I recently saw a thing about Inflamactin? Anyone else try this? Does it help. The meds Dr's prescribe don't work at all. I just am done with that mess. My primary wants me to go to a pain management dr but I just have given up on it.
have to go to pain management dr
dear kathy...i just saw your post. how frustrating it must be. it is either your doctor or where you live to makes it so hard to get answers, etc. for you. you are in Canada? well, anyways...there are solutions...you just need to find the right doctor, and dont let ANYONE tell you the pain is in your head! It took me 2 years to find out about this burning pain in my mouth and gums! they want to tell you (cant think of the word now)...but this turned out to be something called Burning Mouth Syndrome...very rare. But i had to research for 2 years to find out about it...and I HAD an injury that had caused a tooth nerve root to be damaged...which is what caused it! Neither the dentist nor doctor knew about the disorder. anyways...let me know if you receive this post and i maybe can find something to help you out...i mean a solution or idea. I have Nerve damage, which causes my problems...not just talking about the BMS. It is Peripheral Neurology with damage to Autonomic nerves. i have appt. for Neurology test, but it sure as hell did not take 8 months to get the appt. less than a month wait. and that is not soon enough for me, with my problems!
dear Jennifer..not sure if you are still seeking answers..it was 2008 when you asked. let me know if you are still having problems..i will try to help u with an answer.
Sept. 1, 2015. I have just come back from a doctor who told me that the two types of pain I have might all be in my head--very real to me, but psychsomatic!
I told her my pain (lower and mid-back pain and fibromyalgic-like symptoms) are very REAL, that I NEVER see a doctor unless I can't stand it anymore, and that I HATE taking medications. I need to regress to an emergency department visit July4 (my back, in particular, had suddenly become acute after being painful from the end of June, and my fibro symptoms were steadily moving up my arms and legs from the extremeties towards my core since mid-Feb; these two types of pain seem to be working in concert, each aggravating the other). I was prescribed Cymbalta 30 mg, threw up for 3 days, and stopped (NO one is going to convince me to stick with it--if it causes that reactive a response, then it must be a poison, as far as I'm concerned-glad it works for many, but I'm not willing to throw up for 2-3 weeks if I can find another remedy.). July 6, I visited my clinic, and was prescribed Lyrica 25 mg, which did nothing for back or neural pain, and which I stopped after 2 1/2 wk trying and saw my family doctor, July 22. This was when MY OWN FAMILY DOCTOR told me that there might not be a name for my 'pains'. I felt she had told me that she didn't believe me. I left her office devastated, and realized that she had not given me something else to try. Retrospectively, she prescribed amitriptyline 25 mg (has done nothing for either pain, and made me 'drugged' during the day, even when taking 1/2 dose). TODAY I saw a clinician again and was prescribed Effexor 37.5 increasing to 75 mg after a week for back pain. [Interestingly, I had been on Effexor, the lower dose, for 20 years for mediating hot flashes associated with menopause, which worked very well, but which I voluntarily discontinued 19 months ago, as I am certainly now through menopause at age 65!] I KNOW I tolerate Effexor well--BUT what I am trying to convey is that, here in Ontario, Canada, when I asked that there must be SOMETHING out there to try besides Cymbalta for specific back pain, she began this thing about my two types of pain might all be in my head! itold her I was willing to persue any and all avenues to get relief, and AGAIN said that there must be SOMETHING out there that is non-narcotic that can help, at least, with the back pain. I had already told her that I had very little relief from taking 2x500mg acetominiphen every 4 hr [Tylenol] also with the maximum dosage of 6 muscle and back pain relief during the day [Robax Platinum=200 mg ibuprophen [Advil] + 500mg methocarbamol]. Hence the prescription for Effexor. I don't know yet, obviously, if it will help. But when the medical community accuses you that it might all be in your head because I don't 'present' like 95% of patients--that's just cruel. I blatantly asked her, 'What if I'm the other 5%?', to which she gave no answer. I have only ever had x-rays on my back, again because I don't 'present' abnormalities that 95% of the population would show. So, AGAIN, what if I'm one of the 5%?? What do I have to do to get an MRI to see if there is something EVERYONE is missing???? As I have found, I'd have to LIE and say that the pain I have from the back is going down one side of my body (which it doing only slightly and only recentll) to get an MRI to check!! Can't see a neurologist for 8 months!! HOW DO WE GET THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS (this is now 5 different doctors-family doc, 2 emerg docs, 1 doc-associate, clinic doctor) to BELIEVE you?? And IF they believe you, why does it take 8 months to see a neurologist, who likely won't have any better answers? There are no pain management centres near here. Now what????
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Hi Ghilly I suffer from fibromyalgia along with other pain issues and my primary care has been prescribing me percocet 15mg every 6 hours since 2004. Now all of a sudden she wants me off them. She says it's not the right medicine for fibromyalgia but for me it takes aways 80% of the pain and i don't know what i am going to do without them. Do you have any suggestions on how to talk to my dr about keeping me on them? Please email me at ***@****. Thanks so much
I take oxy's and they work for fibro ..I have chronic pain and I take 10 mg sometimes 6 times a day depending how much pain I am in ..I have tried all other meds such as Lyric which I found worse than the oxy's I could not even drive on them ..
I have to agree with droop. The little things make a difference, even certain things that get your blood pumping. Whether its a chair in the right place or the bowls and plates are stored lower. anything that will make your day easier and keep you from falling. Sex works good too, get yourself a vibrator i see ads on tv all the time, or have your husband help more. You got to be resourceful. As far as your doc goes, you need to explain to him your pain level has increased to the point you cant live like this and remind him that your relationship with him is based on trust, so your trusting in him to help you feel better, while hes trusting your insurance is up to date.
I had to wait for a year until my pain was controlled, my PCP had me on the lowest dose of Vicodin 5/325 I had no idea that was a low dose of pain med. Finally after a year the PCP sent me to pain mgmt. why this was not done in the 1st place is beyond me, a year in pain all because of the DEA being involved in our health care.
I had to go to a pain specialist, Tell your doctors to send you to a pain mgmt.specialist or a pain mgmt. clinic for help, the Drs..and PCP's will not rx stronger pain meds because they are afraid of the DEA
I cannot believe the Doctors and the medical community are not fighting the DEA because they fear prescribing a pain med with the DEA watching every thing they do.
I don't know why health insurance providers are not fighting this also, they are paying out more for pain mgmt. providers and medicare is paying out a lot more as well as Govt. health assistance.
I hope all of you receive the care you deserve.
Agree! I know this is a year old post but if we do nothing we will get no help I have wrote to senators, reps and plenty of others, newspapers etc. I'm tired of the patients in pain needing to suffer because of the addicts who abuse meds. Its not right!
Thank you, Jennifer567. You are RIGHT on the money. I never realized what daily/constant pain really meant. In fact, I couldn't imagine that it was even a possibility for a person. I thought "surely, there's something out there in today's medicine that would keep pain away". But now having experienced it first hand (8 hospitalizations in 5 months too) and they can't find out why am in constant abdominal cramping. I can't believe a person has to suffer like this. I'm on Dylotted (hydromorphone) and experience pain morning, noon, night and in my sleep. Even this strong medicine is not keeping my pain at bay. I have just received copies of my last hospital stay and my own PCP!!!! wrote "narcotic dependency" in my chart (which has now bruised me for future medical treatments). I am a well respected person and now I feel I'm being slandard! Talk about adding insult to injury! My own PCP? And she didn't even have the guts to talk to me about it - just reduce the pain meds in the hospital every 6 hours till I had NOTHING left to help the pain. Then they released me.
I'm in the process of getting my record amended. Wish me luck.
what I did was to be completely honest with my doctor about how much pain I was actually in. After a very good discussion, my doctor decided to put me on morphine extended release, so that I only needed to take 2 pills in the morning and two pills at night. I would suggest this, but I do understand how hard it is for people with any pain issues to talk to their doctor without sounding like a pill popper
Yes your right. The Docs think we are just looking for meds, and as far as exercise goes to help, I don't know about any one else but the next day the pain is worse. So I tell my Doc about something else to take and she say's their really is nothing else to take. They make you feel like a drug seeking liar. I wish I could find a Doc that has fibro, myofacial, and chronic pain disorder. That would be the one for us to go to. Find another Doc, look for a support group (that's what im looking for) and maybe you can find a better Doctor. Good luck Lee
IM SS JENNIFER AN YES I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU NOBODY KNOWS JUST HOW BAD WE HURT AN ARE FAST TO JUDGE US I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHERE YOURE COMING FROM HUN AN I JUST SIMPLY TOLD MY DR THE HONEST TO GODS TRUTH LIKE U DID HERE AN THEY KNOW HOW MUCH PAIN WERE IN AN WILL UNDERSTAND MY DR DOES AN THEY DO THERE BEST TO TRY AN KEEP ME AS COMFORTABLE AS POSABLE SO JUST LOOK UR DR SRT IN THE EYES AN TELL THEM WHAT YOU GOING THREW AN THAT U HAVE A FIBRO BLOG AN 1 OF THE PEOPLE ON THERE TOLD U IF THAT WASNT WORKING TO ASK UR DR TO GIVE U WHATEVER IT IS U THINK WILL HELP I HOPE U FELING A LIL BETTER HUN GOD BLESS
The reason why the doctors seem less compassionate is because they are now under tremendous pressure from the DEA and politicians who don't understand that there are people like us who are in terrible pain and do need the pain meds. These doctors are now at risk of losing their medical licenses. You need to write to your Senators and Congressional Reps, and the DEA about your experiences. These terrible experiences are all over another medical website that starts with drugs. And yes, the reason for the government's totalitarian control of doctors is because of all the illegal selling of pain meds. Wish you the best.
Thank you for your initial post and subsequent post. I sympathize with your predicament. I feel the same about asking for stronger pain meds when talking with a doctor. I feel so scared that they are going to call me a pill head or drug addict that I don't ask. Case in point, two days ago I meet with a orthopedic surgeon to review my recent MRI which shows my third herniation at my L-5, scar tissue from previous surgery, and now disc degeneration to the point where fusion is now the recommended treatment along with a referral to pain management. So after a rather emotional visit about this operation. I tell this surgeon, who is part of the same clinic as my PCP, that I took my last Vicodin that morning. The surgeon tells me he does not like to prescribe Vicodin and he prescribed Tramadol 150 mg and Nabumetone 750mg x2 daily. I had never heard of Tramadol nor Nabutome so I didn't press the issue. I had been taking Vicodin 5mg q. 8 hours for three weeks at that point. It was prescribed Vicodin for the sciatic pain that I felt, but before the MRI procedure, which concluded the herniation and disc degeneration. I had taken the Vicodin as prescribed mostly, sometimes waiting four hours instead of the prescribed 8.
While I was taking the Vicodin, I was able to drive my family to California for vacation, surf and dance with my wife. I then took the Tramadol and it is awful. It makes me nauseous, dizzy, fatigued and unmotivated. I feel as though I'm in a tunnel and detached from the people. I can't track a conversation. I almost slipped in the shower because I lost my balance. My world shrank to the couch. Looking at the dishes in my sink overwhelmed me. And it only knock the the pain from a 10 at times to a 8. I read about this medication on-line and found it to be a synthetic opioid that also act as an SSRI. Well I told myself that's that. I won't take any meds, I rather be in pain. I did this because I didn't want to call the surgeon back and ask for Vicodin. Well that plan lasted until late the following morning when my sciatic nerve went OFF. I was cuddled in a ball on the floor crying. I thought about going to the ER it was so bad. Finally the spasm settled and I hobbled to the Tramadol and took some. I still wasn't going to call that surgeon back and ask. I wasn't going to call my PCP and explain everything. Fortunately, I have a pain management appointment on Tuesday (three days from now). I'm waiting to talk with someone about this pain. In the meantime, I have severe sciatic episodes just walking half a block. I went to a function today thinking I needed to do something to get out of the house. I had to lay on the sidewalk to get the spasm to stop. I want off this Tramadol! I don't care if they give me Vicodin or not but I wrote a list of my expectations for successful treatment and I will not stop pressing until I get relief and my active life back. I'm so angry at people who abuse these pills- and help to unfairly stigmatize people who really need them. I do understand that addiction is an illness, I want to be compassionate. But their illness and behaviors makes everyone else suspect, which in turn makes doctors less compassionate towards their patients- like they need another thing to get in the way of that.