Chronic Pain members - Welcome, please introduce yourself

Well I was not only addicted to tramadol I now have Castro parents and restless legs from it. Would never recommend. I am basically in pain all the time. I wake up with it and go to bed with it. Tylenol helps enough so I can tolerate it. Injections never helped and surgeons destroyed my back. Stimulator helps slightly. Like I said, I have dealt with daily pain for over 20 yrs.

Do you get any pain mitigation from your pump? I've had mine for well over a year and have never had any pain relief. Mine has hydromorphone. Trial with morphine offered no positive results.

Thanks for your reply. I have had this pump output increased more times than I can recall. It got so high that I was beginning to get dizzy along with a host of symptoms that I can't remember. I'm in the process of reducing the out put so I can have it removed. Yes, this doc added some kind of anesthetic, but it only made things worse. You name it, I've done it. I am hoping to get a trial of Boston Scientific's waverider SCS soon. In my current state, I can't do much...no walking much, no cycling. no working in my shop, no long didtance car rides.

I have the Boston scientific stimulator. Had it adjusted several times with minimal relief. Basically they have told me there's nothing else they can offer. Reactions to over 40 meds so not much else they can do.

Hi, I'm Barb. In 2020, a few weeks after colorectal cancer surgery, headed to rr when I got lightheaded/fainted and went straight down on my butt. I ended up with 3 lumbar compression fractures (1 later collapsed). (I almost died at my cancer surgery - took 4 months to get back home after hospital stays and physical rehab hospitals to be able to walk again.). The orthopedic surgeon wouldn't operate cuz I wasn't strong enough for rod, brackets, screws to fix my back. So now I have hump back and wear 100 Mcg Fentanyl patch. I tried different pills, and would actually like morphine, but my PCP wouldn't scribe it. Fentanyl helps a little, but now my cancer is back (recurrent) and am having new butt pain and numbness down to my knees, sometimes to my toes. I get so tired of repeating problems to all the Drs.

I have an electrical stimulator which doesn't give much relief

Hello, I’m Irret and have been in pain for 23 yrs sign first Fibromyalgia 2001 onset (I had bad fall onto stone floor in 1981 while & mos pregnant. Next a Chiropractor “popped” my bk at T5 twice, and I heard a cracking noise. From then on I have had awful pain at that site. Next, bone spurs surgically removed from left neck 2007 (resulted in some nerve damage so left neck, left arm, left shoulder and hand hurt all the time and two fingers in left hand are numb). Next, constant burning at T3 and down Rt leg and foot because dr hit a nerve with the needle during an epidural at T3 in 2010. Next a Chiropractor hammered the bk of my neck very hard with an electric hammer - without explaining what or why and also without my permission.. He obviously didn’t bother to read the paperwork I filled out in his office my first visit - where I wrote about damaged nerves in bk of my neck. Daily bad headaches began in 2016;
2018, Redudent Dr at an Advanced Pain Clinic injected Bupivicaine numbing agent on my left Occipital Nerve Greater Branch and stuck the needle into the nerve instead of injecting the solution around the nerve so she injured the nerve permanently and I’ve had hellish pain there ever since. Because of that hellish pain I had a series of Ketamine IV’s at a Spine Institute but on 6th IV I had a huge Hive develop on my leg - it was an allergic reaction to the Ketamine (not everyone reacts this way). At present I’m on Lyrica and Medical Cannabis. I’m allergic to Hydrocodone.
We chronic pain sufferers can pray for each other to keep on keeping on.