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@debec OK I found several links, but I don’t have time to go through and give...
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Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 21 11:04am
I fractured my L3 in January from severe coughing that lasted over three weeks. Tip: Don't...
Pain kept increasing and now included ... continued to a point that a pain doc ... prescribed opioids (took pain down ... Believe me, if the opioids worked, I ... Lying down made the pain subside to
Discussion: Looking for info
Posted: Jul 16, 2024
I've taken opioids (percocet) for 25 years. I was NSAID into the hospital because the doctors...
I've taken opioids (percocet) for ... doctors did not want to prescribe the opioid ... I would say YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE OPIOIDS ... things that will work for you and opioids ... question with a big "no." I take opioids
Posted: Aug 8, 2024
Hello to everyone trying their best to manage their pain medications and most importantly, their continuous...
trying their best to manage their pain ... managing acute and long term chronic pain ... manage their pain. ... prescribed by authentic and genuine pain ... for pain management but they fail to
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Mar 9, 2025
@cynbell I am sorry you are suffering. I do understand how a small town can feel....
are 'on label' for treating pain ... depression that comes from chronic pain ... been open to other meds and not just opioids ... , I have received the opioids I need ... I use Salon Pas pain patches on worst
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 20 2:14pm
@dancer7000 I didn’t understand the digesting issues. There are million different kinds of narcotics and opioids...
million different kinds of narcotics and opioids ... took a bit of work to find the right opioid ... that allowed me to be pain-free and ... enough to start that it knocked out the pain
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 15 12:42pm
@kaki068 I’ve had the same feeling!! If any of the doctors that continually dismiss my pain...
doctors that continually dismiss my pain ... Now I sit at home in too much pain to ... When I do go out it’s so painful it’ ... I can’t take opioids do to digesting ... issues so the spinal and abdominal pain
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 14 4:39am
I have degenerative disc disease, thoracolumbar scoliosis, disc bulges from T11 through L4 with facet hypertrophy....
After all of this, I still have nerve pain ... I have been on opioids since May along ... from the pills and from the chronic pain ... there is another cause for the nerve pain ... I am tired of pain and will try it but
@pdes surgery OR outpatient for bone spurs; opioids for arthritis flare pain (be sure you don't...
surgery OR outpatient for bone spurs; opioids ... for arthritis flare pain (be sure you ... just figure out how to manage the pain
Discussion: Neck arthritis
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jan 11 9:43am
My deceased wife had chronic bladder pain which urologists from UCSD to UCLA could not find...
deceased wife had chronic bladder pain ... Was was hitting the upper level of opioids ... a pain pump. ... The pain pump delivers a micro dose ... of the opioid directly to the spinal
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Jan 7 8:23am
@zinnia55 did you start LDN at 3mg?? That's way too high a dose, too fast which...
You can not take opioids when on LDN ... (It renders opioids useless and will ... not help pain.) ... If someone can't go off of opioids ... It is mostly used for chronic pain but
Support Group: Autoimmune Diseases
Posted: Jan 4 7:55pm
Find a good orthopedic pain specialist and get on pain medication. I had 2 spine surgeries...
Find a good orthopedic pain specialist ... and get on pain medication. ... The pain specialist put me on Norco ... which is an opioid medication but it ... My pain specialist tried 10 different
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Dec 31, 2025
@charliegirl Thank you for your caring reply. I have, and and am open to more medications,...
many meds to list here, I thought opioid ... #39;ve been hearing about it, but my pain ... I've never asked for opiods, the ... pain clinic just assumed I was there
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 20 3:21pm
@donaldrobert I odn't know if this will be helpful or not. I am in a position...
My pain is all Sciatica. ... Right now it is accepting the pain levels ... realistically I'm looking at 50% pain ... relief and probably pain in my back ... She is walking but is on long term opiods
Reading these posts. I am so sorry so many have such awful experiences with this pump....
Therefore I’ve have had the pain pump ... year I got an SCS implanted for my pain ... access to the absolute best possible pain ... I still need oral opioids in addition ... to the SCS stim and the pain pump;
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: Feb 18 2:35pm
Hi kathimarquette, I'm a 71 y/o male and had my left shoulder replaced last August. However,...
As far as post-op pain, well I was kept ... overnight on a diluted ketamine drip (opioids ... It is painful but not debilitating, ... and whatever pain meds they give you ... In my experience, all the pain I had
@mslee56 I'm closely monitoring my osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. I don't need a pain doctor now, as...
I don't need a pain doctor now, ... weakest morphine "equivalency" opioid ... you are fortunate to have found a pain
Posted: Feb 9 2:01pm
Reading through this thread I now feel not so alone. I suffer from depression, anxiety and...
I’m also on an opioid. ... hydrocodone when I can’t stand the pain ... either one of my RX for anxiety and pain
Support Group: Depression & Anxiety
Posted: Feb 9 11:02am