NSAIDs

[dustybrown]

I am curious to know for those of you who have only been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia (no other coexisting diseases such as Lupus or Lyme disease), do you get pain relief from any NSAID medications like ibuprofen, Aleve, or any other prescription NSAIDs like Mobic or Voltaren?  

[enlighten05]

I use NSAIDs (alieve) which helps my Fibro pain. Some mornings when I wake up i have some intense pain and if I take one with a tylonal or two I can get away without anything else the rest of the day and then maybe only something at night. My doctor cautioned me to take a prilosect with each NSAID dose though because of the strong sustainability to bleeding stumach ulcers with consistent NSAID use. I also have constant nausea issues too. This seems to help sometimes. but he insists it will help if I insist on using the NSAID. I feel that risk is better then using the stronger pain meds

[dustybrown]

The reason I ask is because I am not completely comfortable with my diagnosis of fibromyalgia. I have some of the symptoms, but I feel as though I may have fallen under the care of a doctor who diagnoses anyone who walks into her office with pain with "fibromyalgia." I have also been diagnosed with sciatica, DDD, degenerative facet arthritis, nerve dysfunction, and mild scoliosis. Over a year ago I had a shoulder surgery due to impingement syndrome and a bone spur, which has left me in chronic pain.

I have bounced around from physical therapy to pain management (which intimidated me since I was new to it with all of the pills and injections they were pushing on me) to this Rheumatologist who diagnosed me with fibro. I am taking a very strong NSAID now plus an antiseizure med, a muscle relaxer, and a low dose of vicodin. I stopped the NSAID for a short time and my body (especially my shoulder and my lower back) swelled up so bad. When I began taking the NSAID again my condition improved. I don't get pain relief per se from NSAIDs, but without them, I would have intense swelling.

I have been tested for RA and am negative, at least one year ago I was. I don't really have a lot of trouble sleeping unless my shoulder or back is swollen. I frequently have to ice my shoulder to fall asleep. Steroid injections help in my lower back where my facet arthritis and nerve damage is located. I am confused. Do you guys think perhaps that I do not have fibro and just chronic pain???

[fibrohurts]

NO anti-inflamatories have ever helped my FM pain and I have tried a lot of them. No non-narcotic pain med has ever helped.

[kmil1999]

I would have to say that it helps more than acetaminophen, but not that much.

[singerpoet]

I don't have Lupus or Lyme disease (that I know of...lol)  but I have had fibro for more than 10 years and no NSAIDS have ever helped relieve pain.