how many of you use pain meds?

[fibrogal]

I seriously wish I could find some kind of pain meds that don't make me so violently ill I would rather deal with the pain. It (the pain) has gotten so bad that all of my back muscles are now neuropic. You would think that's better than pain but its not. I still have pain everywhere else and that electic needles feeling on top of it. I'm so exhausted from this fight I no longer know where to turn. I want to find a new pain doctor but don't have the energy to start all over AGAIN. I still work full time and try my best to be a good wife, mother, and grandmother. Can't find a good balance and I've been trying for years. I don't know who decided that FMS doesn't get worse/isn't progressive. It most certainly is. I refuse to quit but feel like I'm losing the battle. It definatly has the best of me right now. To answer your question, which is really all I intended to do, if I could take pain meds I would. All day everyday. If you can, do it and don't you dare feel quilty for it. Do everything you can to be comfortable even if its only for several hours a day. You deserve that. We all do. Thanks for listening to my rant. Be well!

I'm sorry the meds don't work for you. I pray you are able to get some relief soon.

 

[HelpInAZ]

MercyL. - Great response, I agree 100%!

 

[RomanAnthonysMama]

I don't use pain meds, but I used to. The reason I don't anymore, is because for some reason they made me sick to my stomach, even if I made sure not to take them on an empty stomach. I just couldn't bear with feeling that sick all of the time. I'd rather deal with the pain then that sick feeling. I couldn't even go for rides in the car without getting sick.

 

[wander_n_wonder]

As much as possible, I try to avoid pain meds because I believe it will make you dependent to it after a while. I do meditation instead whenever in pain. That's a better natural option. It has been working for me so far.

 

[fibro1]

I too agree with Mercy! I was diagnosed in 2010 with fibro and cfs along with degenerative arthritis after exhaustive medical tests. I have taken EVERY drug on the market and the only relief I get is from Percocet. I take 30 mg in the morning and 30 at bedtime and its the only relief I can get. I too get restless legs and I also get it all over my body along with severe pain and terrible stiffness. I have been accused of being a drug addict and I just tell people to put themselves in my shoes. I have many test results to prove it. There are no real tests for fibro but I do have my MRI test results to prove my arthritis. My doc is a pain specialist and told me when other meds don't work that Percocet is the drug of choice when all others fail. I never feel "high" or sleepy ,just some relief of the pain. Fibro affects everyone differently as do the drugs to treat it. I wish all of you well and hope someday they can find a cure for this life altering disease.

 

[stonefeather]

I take tramadol. prescribed 6 50mg tablets a day.When I was first diagnosed the beginning of last summer I didn't want to take anything. I was still in shock that I had just been diagnosed with a lifetime condition of pain. I was so happy to finally have an answer to what was wrong with me but my heart sunk as I walked alone from the office to the elevator to go home. The diagnoses created an immediate feeling of isolation and separation. People don't understand chronic pain unless they live with it and they especially don't understand it if you ever have good days where there is no pain. When I finally caved half a year later and asked for pain meds in February I felt like I was drug addict med seeking....When I took the pills I felt like I was a druggie. WHen I took my pills out of my purse in certain crowds I realized that I felt like a druggie....I no longer give a s&*t. I live in chronic pain. Period. Tramadol gives me relief. Period. It doesn't always work but my life has improved because I am on it. And without it I would feel like someone had punched my cheekbones and broke them everyday all day. I don't take it just when I feel pain. I take it every day as prescribed because I found that the side effects of not taking it are sometimes as bad or worse than the fibro pain.

 

[stonefeather]

oh and I saw someone mention something about Lyrica. I tried it. One dose. As soon as I felt it entering the system I could taste it in my mouth and I began feeling a new set of pain in my hands along with the pain I was already feeling in my hands...a different kind of stabbing, more precise, more needle like. Didn't bother to try it any further.

 

[ladygrace]

Hello I to take pain meds, muscle relaxers, and sleeping pill at night but taking sleeping pill i sleep for cpl hours then i am wide awake like an owl the rest of night, and yes i have pain 24-7 and its very hard for me to do simply task anymore has anyone ever found what i called knots on their body especially on the pressure points of body? and they hurt like the dickens..what can you do for these if anything? i have been taking same pain pills and muscle relaxers for 5yrs and now it seems they are not doing the job and i don't want to go up in strength and go to work in a fog it is lortab and baclofen and ambien has anyone else ever had to change to meds to a higher strength and did it help them better or did you and your dr come up with a different combination that helped?

 

[fibrogal]

I've had to go up in strength with my lortabs. I don't worry about it. And yes, it did help.

 

[jenfitzy]

Hi there, a lot of the comments in this thread refer to drugs in the USA, I take amitriptyline, paracetamol and tramadol for pain, but most days it doesn't work. I have tried heat pads, which help a little.However I think this is a large problem that GP's don't know about or how to treat

 

[lynn77]

I have been using generic Flexeril for muscle pain at night for quite a few years now. I have tried weaning off of it because the grogginess from taking it continues through the morning for me. If I'm not in a lot of pain when I go to bed, I can cut the pill in half and be okay. When I try to do totally without it, my muscles hurt too much the next morning.

 

[rollinloud]

Well I do think that general practitioners are kind of clueless as to how to treat fibro. My doc first gave me all these scripts and none of them agreed with my system. I ended up asking for a script for medical marijuana and it has worked much better than all those meds he had written scripts for originally. He was hesitant to write the medical mary jane script. I guess it is because he doesn't get a kickback from the pharmaceutical companies, eh?

 

[Trellum]

As much as possible, I try to avoid pain meds because I believe it will make you dependent to it after a while. I do meditation instead whenever in pain. That's a better natural option. It has been working for me so far.

I agree with you, but I think most of us (if we haven't done so already) will reach a point in which pain meds will be very necessary. I pray that doesn't happen, but I'm totally open to that possibility. Sadly we have been put in a position in which we have no control or choice in what happens next

 

[Shelive]

I agree with you, you couldn't say it better than this!

 

[remainameless07]

Hi - I am currently taking Etodolac, Duloxetine, Co-Codamol (higher mg) and the newest member of the "pain-relief" pills is Pregabalin and Pramipexole (for the restless legs side of Fibro)...none of these take the pain away completely and the only ones that I am certain are working is the Pramipexole and Etodolac as I ran out of both and had to wait over the weekend to get a refill and I could hardly walk with the pain.

I had been on Tramadol topped up with Paracetamol and they didn't touch the pain, so instead of going up a step onto Morphine, I requested to go back down to the Co-Codamol as the Tramadol made me feel sick and I figured that instead of being a "zombie" in pain, it would be better to be just in pain, does that make sense?

The pain is always there anyway but I know my limitations now and I try not to push it. If I do a lot of walking or standing one day, I'm usually house-bound for the following 2 days!

Hello, I have been on quite a few meds for fibro but have never felt relief like I do from tramadol. Is co-codamol similar?