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Chronic Pain members - Welcome, please introduce yourself
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@elaineinmontana60 H Elaine,
I feel your pain. No seriously, I do. I have a very bad back and I’ve been on Duloxitine for 20 years. I have a complete cervical fusion, a complete lumbar fusion, an SI joint fusion. I supposedly have fibromyalgia but don’t recall having been tested for it. A back injury 10 years ago didn’t help.
Chronic pain really gets old.
I’ve read that Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center has a vagus nerve stimulator implant that helps with pain so you might want to check that out. I was looking into it but haven’t followed up. I’m just tired of going to docs.
Hope this group can be the support we need. Hope you find relief in whatever form.
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@2brussels Thank you. On many levels. I had to go and look up what Duloxitine was, do you feel it has helped you? I am very nervous about taking more pills, I had enough of that for four plus years. How do you cope with your chronic pain if you don't mind me asking?
I do have a Ecoin, implanted to help with the nighttime incontinence. IT has done wonders for me, and recently had it turned up.
I also have a wonderful PT person, who works exclusively with scar tissue, that has helped,
I am also tired of going to the doc's, and have tried just about anything and everything....I recently went for a test to see if a ablation(sp?) would work, the test alone was so painful, six shots in the back, and the lidocaine didn't touch it, I screamed. And then had to endure five more, while they held me down....I still have some bad dreams about that one. And the test was inconclusive, yep, not going back there again.