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chronic pain -- it's baaaak

Posted by Elizabeth on March 9, 2002, at 2:25:20

Chronic pain sucks. (You probably knew that already.)

The reason I haven't been posting much lately is because my back-neck-shoulder pain has flared up again after having been dormant for quite some time. As a result, typing is something I can only do for a very short time. I've mostly limited myself to checking email, but I haven't even been very good about that. So if you posted something directed at me, or sent me an email and I haven't yet written back, you have my apologies -- I'm not just ignoring you! (I'm ignoring *everything*!)

I left a message with my mdoc's answering service, but I'm not sure how reliable he is about responding to those things. I also have an appointment with him, something like 10 days from now.

Anybody have any ideas for managing musculoskeletal pain? It goes away when I walk, but it comes back later. I've been doing those exercises I learned way back when, in physical therapy; they don't help any more now than they did then. Ibuprofen and ketoprofen, even very large amounts (e.g., 1200 mg ibuprofen; 150 mg ketoprofen), don't do a damned thing. (I have long since written off Tylenol as a placebo -- "like a sugar pill, only it doesn't even taste good.") Xanax seems to help some, but not reliably. I'm hoping my mdoc will be willing to prescribe Soma, which is what I was taking before and which seems to work pretty well. Opioids probably aren't an option, other than raising the dose of buprenorphine.

I'm sure a lot of you guys have similar conditions and know how unpleasant it can be. Any ideas?

TIA

-elizabeth


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