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Low back pain & neuropathy issues
Spine Health | Last Active: May 26, 2022 | Replies (213)Comment receiving replies
Parus is right. You're not alone. I had compression fractures in my lower back when I fell several years ago, and have peripheral neuropathy pain in my feet. I had a spinal cord stimulator implant in June last year, and the pain in my feet has been reduced significantly, though certainly not completely. It's frustrating not to be able to walk like I used to. I take morphine sulfate contin and I'm trying Gabapentin again. I'm hoping that one of the medications for neuropathy will work, now that I have the stimulator. None of them did anything before.
Going to a pain specialist was one of the best things I've done. He took a sincere interest in helping me. I had been through all the neuropathy meds with the neurologist, with no success.
What doctors have you seen about the neuropathy? Keep pressing them to try everything they can. Don't let them give up.
Jim
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Don't let your brain hold some treatments at bay. Our brains can make us ill, they can also make us well. You don't need to move away from your chosen approaches but keeping an open mind is helpful. Your Doctors want to help you.
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vikingdad, I feel the way you do. I want to find what is causing the pain. in 17 years no one can figure out what is causing the pain and pain meds don't work.
I guess I'm the lucky one. Gabapentin did not work for me when I took it for nerve pain years ago. I now take it but I take pre Gabapentin which is the generic for Lyrica. I've got so many Oddball kinds of pain in neuropathy I'm not sure which ones it's helping with but it's really helping a lot. Too bad it's so damn expensive. the point of this is that just because Gabapentin didn't work for you doesn't mean that pre Gabapentin or Lyrica won't work for you.
I tried Gabapentin a few years ago and it didn't help with my nerve pain. The psychiatrist and my wife say that I had negative side effects. But I decided to give it and others another chance, having had a spinal cord stimulator implant, so I'm trying Gabapentin again, up to just 200mg three times a day. So far no effect, good or bad. I tried Lyrica, but after 3 weeks I became incoherent, and had other things going on, so I spent a few days in the hospital. Bummer is that it was the only neuropathy med that helped the pain. I'm still working on treating the pain that the stimulator isn't reaching.
But that's just my own experience.
Jim
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I have a pain pump and access to narcotics and I take another drug that rules out Aspirin, one of the original wonder drugs. I still count on Acetaminophen to help as well. Me often forget that some of these over the counter drugs can be powerful answers to pain.