Chronic Pain members - Welcome, please introduce yourself

@mysporby1940 What Is your diet like? Maybe that could help. Mediterranean is the best, but not for everyone. Eliminate sugar, carbs, highly processed foods entirely. This will rid your body of inflammation from what you consume. If your already doing that congrats. I always start with diet changes. Then I do PT, swim (excellent), and relax with heat or ice. Walking is very good as well. I have a bad spine so these are the things I do. I also have a bad heart I'm trying everything I can not to go on pharmaceuticals. Curcumin is great for heart Inflammation. There's also CoQ10 supplement. Third party tested of course for heart. There are a lot of supplements for joint health, heart, muscle and brain health.

@hjcram Hi. Is acupuncture helping you with neuropathy?

Hi I’m Deni (short for Denise) and have had migraines and chronic pain for 20 years. I’ve also been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, sciatic pain w/peripheral neuropathy and myriad of other pain too many to mention.

@dstapay Hi Deni, sorry to hear about your issues.I fell like I should not complain hearing what you are having to deal with.
I have been getting acupuncture but I've not seen any progress with it. I'm about to start with a chiropractor, who , apparently, has studied this particular condition and does not use the traditional chiropractic techniques. Will report back.
What sort of treatments have you been getting?

@mysporby1940 There are conservative measures... drugs, PT, exercise, etc. If those fail to help, the are more invasive measures... spinal cord stimulator, pain pump, and others. I have tried them all. Only the spinal cord stimulator helped, a lot.

@hjcram I have done Botox for migraines, currently taking a break from it to see if there’s a difference. So far I haven’t noticed any worsening of headaches. I also do Aimovig.

Chronic pain is basically treated with Vicoprofen. After 10 years it obviously doesn’t work as well as it did, still provides some relief.

@kayraymat at least 2 cups, cooked, oatmeal daily. I add chia or flax for extra benefits.

@judith18 what is LDN?

Hi. My name is James and I have been dealing with chronic lower back, hip, gluteal and leg pain for the las year and a half. After an MRI i was diagnosed with a pinched nerve at L4-5. My primary care provider sent me to physical therapy and I went for 21 sessions. The pain was much less immediately after each session but came back in a few hours. Then I was sent to a pain doctor who gave me lumbar steroid injections over the course of one year. The first three injections relieved the pain but each one only lasted a couple of months. I also had a radio frequency ablation done to relieve the arthritic pain in my lower back. It also lasted a couple of months. Finally, I went to a neurosurgeon who suggested MITR procedure to correct the stenosis that was causing the nerve to be pinched. I had this procedure done on July 8, 2026 and a lot of the pain is gone, however I am now having moderate pain in my left hip joint. I have a 40 cm stainless steel rod in my left femur from an automobile accident in 1969 and I was wondering if that could be causing my hip pain. An MRI of my left showed the following:
FINDINGS:
Marrow signal is unremarkable and without abnormal marrow replacement. Femoral
ORIF incompletely evaluated without complication. No fracture.
Moderate chondral thinning superior hip. Degenerative tearing superior labrum.
No joint effusion.
The distal gluteal, proximal hamstring and proximal adductor tendons are
normal with the exception of mild tendinosis.
No bursitis.
IMPRESSION:
Moderate degenerative changes of the left hip joint.

@jonijean Thank you.
I will look into that.
I have oatmeal.