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Muscular skeletal disorder. How to live with this?
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I'm so sorry that you're experiencing this pain Sunny. I'd certainly find another Dr, and ideally get an MRI of your spine to see what's going on.
You said you are in your mid 60s and were very active before taking medicine to treat osteoporosis. Seems like statins cause muscle problems in about 20% of patients. Not sure if the osteoporosis meds have the same effect.
It's strange that this developed so quickly. It may be arthritis somewhere in your spine, but the effects of that usually result in sciatica, causing pain in the back of the legs.
Please let us know what your new Dr has to say. In the meantime, all the best to you.
Joe
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My new doctor told me to keep counting on osteoporosis medication and don’t know how to help with pain. I went to rheumatologist and he prescribed stronger opioids. He knows that I take Tramadol and don’t want anything stronger because it makes me even more sick. I just read that chronic pain for the lower back is not even studied enough and opioids can’t be long term treatment. All I know that I have severe osteoporosis and have a compression fractures in my vertebrae. I am going to do a new MRI at the beginning of December. I can’t have a surgery. Pain is none stop. Not even I laying in the bed. I tried Pregabalin, Gabapentin, etc. Nothing helped.