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Gluteal tendinopathy - endless pain - losing my mind
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@emarks
Hi, thanks for responding. Please let me know how you get on with duloxetine - I believe the side effects are pretty rough. I have always found Advil to be effective in the past and a painkiller I am able to tolerate, but it's not touching this pain. I also take a very low dose of pregabalin for a different problem so I'm going to increase that. My sister takes co-codamol and advil for chronic back pain - I don't know whether you have it in the States. It's 500 tylenol + codeine. It causes constipation! The TENS machine is a precursor to shockwave therapy. The idea is to desensitise the area first. I'll let you know if it gives any relief.
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@lynmen
Thank you. And thanks to everyone else who mentioned the shockwave therapy. I saw the doctor today and I'm going to have 4 sessions of that starting next week. I REALLY appreciate the wonderful input here because I knew zero about it before people brought it up. FWIW, he told me to try to really minimize the tylenol and advil because I'm on gabapentin and a week into duloxetine - too many pills, he said, and I totally agree. So far no problems with the duloxetine, but I know one has to be very watchful for side effects. And I'll be going back to the doc who prescribed it in 3 weeks. I hope the TENS helps you.