Me too. The most helpful for me was PT multiple times, as I have a muscle wasting type of MD which pulls on my bones and nerves and creates pain in all three. I have had injections too. I’m on Gabapentin for neuropathy and seizures, but the most helpful for the nerve pain has been Healthy Feet and Nerves by Terry Naturally, a supplement I bought on amazon and take daily. I started with a half dose and noticed relief after a week. I also take a multivitamin and other B vitamin supplements, R-ALA and others. I have more strength and don’t notice as much pain anywhere so I can still exercise somewhat and move around more.
The most helpful though has been a foldable hip cutout pillow I’ve dragged around for years and it’s prevented reinjury in cars and non-home seats.
I sleep on an air mattress and have an air pillow for my recliner. I don’t sit anywhere unless I’m on some air padded or hip cutout pillow.
It’s the best I can do for all these multiple conditions but I’ve found the more I keep my nerve and muscle pain in check the more my bone pains stay manageable and I can still exercise somewhat and move around more. It’s been 40 years for me with cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacroiliac issues of spina bifida, DDD, tears, compressions, and hemangioma tumor with countless doctors etc.
When I went in for PT last year I found out the recent spine pain was due to my spine being compressed 2” due to severe osteoporosis. I took Evenity injections for a year and gained 11% bone in my spine and 1% in my hip. I’m happy for that and I keep looking for aids that help.
In my 40s I used a walker, and with PT got rid of that and worked back up to a cane, which goes back and forth every few years each decade.
Keeping injury down is a must, and muscles strengthened so they don’t pull the bones out of place. Swollen muscles are inflamed and compress nerves which causes burning pain, cold compresses help with that. Exercise produces lactic acid in the muscles which is removed by massage, rest, and lots of water. After the burning pain is relieved, a dull ache is helped by warm compresses and water. Hip pain is helped by moist warm heat.
Remember cold for burning, heat for ache, moist heat for hip ache. If you’re going to take rxs, take initially and try to take the smallest dose possible, stretch it out and then alternate with OTC. Do the same with OTC until you can get by with just rest and compresses. Try to always have food in your stomach when taking them, unless it says not to. The bone pain drugs can cause loss of bone. Ironic but it happened to me.
I was bed ridden in my 20s with neck and back pain. Once I learned how to cope with the above strategies instead of rxs and otc meds, I’ve been able to relegate my bone issues as among the least of my health concerns, even though I’m still managing bone issues daily.
Sorry this is so long, if it helps even one person in some way or another, I feel I’ve passed on a lifetime of experience to help others.
Drug addiction is a real problem with bone pain. Watch out. Once you get loopy on a dose you won’t feel inclined to do the process above to improve your mobility which will overall manage the bone pain. You’ll be craving the next dose and so on. They’re a short term fix unless you have a bone infection or cancer. That’s a whole different situation