pain relief???

[noo19noo]

Just wanted to ask everyone out there a question.
Have had an MS Diagnosis and am struggling with the daily pain and tiredness  I have 3 small kids 7 ,6 and 2  I want to know if there's a medication to take the edge /away the pain in my legs and will I ever stop feeling tired.

[kwarendorf]

Welcome to our group :-)

Remedies for pain depend on the kind of pain you are experiencing. Pain related to "mechanical" insult, like herniated disks or spriained ankles, will often respond to anti inflammatory drugs. The safest approacch is often to start with non-seroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAID's) like Tylenol or Aleve.

Many of us have what's called neuropathc, or nerve, pain. There is no obvious cause for the pain. The pain centers for the affected area are instructed to fire for no reason. Mesages sent along damaged central nervous system paths get corrupted and the result is neuropathic pain. I have it in my feet. There is nothing wrong with my feet, but without meds they can hurt like h*ll :-)

Finding the right drug or drugs to deal with the pain can be a bit of a process. THe two most common types of meds used are anticonvulsants and antidperessants. WHo knows why, but they work. I take a combination of Lyrica (anticonvulsant) and Elavil (amitriptilyne-anti depressant). It took several months to find the right combination but we did and my feet don't hurt :-)

Kyle

[HVAC]

There are muscle relaxers for muscle spasms. There is Lyrica, Gabenpantin, and Triletal for nerve pain. There is adderal for fatigue. You can have a GP put you on these medications with out a diagnosis.  Narcotics do not work as well on MS pain. My MS specialist sent me to a pain clinic.

Alex

[babygurl37664]

hi noo19noo Im on that wonderful long depressing long scary road to an Ms dx i have another brain n cervical n spine mri tomm with and without contrast my new dr is more sure than i am that i have ms even though my past mri's have had no lesions i gues he is baising this on all my symptom's which is a crazy crap load of symptom's i often find myself wondering outloud ometimes am i going crazy or did my jaw really hurt that bad jut than lol i too have very severe leg pain sometimes so bad it makes me scream and cry literally also i can have just woken up from sleeping a full 12 hours and still feel like i need about 6 more hours of sleep and or just feel like i havent gotten the sleep i needed and just be so freaking exhausted that literaly takes everything in me to get myself a drink for the pain i have all ovr my body my dr has me or 4 Roxy 30's a day he also has me on 2,700Mg of Gabapentin ( Neurontion) 9 300mg a day and the neurontin helps a hole lot it helps with the tingling it doesnt take it away completly with both the neurontion and the roxy's my pain is somewhat mangable i mean i still have my really bad days that sometimes is so bad that the pain meds dont help and ive gotta go to the er and get a pain shot but it does help more so than not and he also has me On 15mg phentremines 2xday he said if thoe did not help with the fatigue than he was going to put me on adderal you should talk to your dr about pain management for you if it wasnt for the pain meds im on now i could not manage my day to day life the pains just to bad i also so have 2 kids and 3dogs who are just like my kids so we parents need things like this to be with your babies and do the things they like to do everyday

I hope everything works out for you and i wish you the bst