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becky92905
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I suffer from chronic pain due to permanent nerve damage in my neck and left shoulder. I am 39 years old and am married to a wonderful, supporive man and we have a 15 year old daughter, I used to be involved in a chronic support group and it disbanded. I find that I desparately miss being with people that understand how I feel and what I'm going through.
I suffer from chronic pain due to permanent nerve damage in my neck and left shoulder. I am 39 years old and am married to a wonderful, supporive man and we have a 15 year old daughter, I used to be involved in a chronic support group and it disbanded. I find that I desparately miss being with people that understand how I feel and what I'm going through.
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I was a respiratory therapist until 9/29/05 when I was involved in a car accident on my way to see a patient,. I had a traumatic disc herniation as a result of the accident and now I suffer from chronic pain and nerve damage and am no longer able to work.
Treatments
- Cymbalta Not Working
- Had a severe allergic reaction to it.
- Heat Working / Worked
- works occasionally for the muscle spasms
- Hydrocodone Somewhat Helpful
- I was on this for a long time and it stopped working for me so my pain doc changed me to percocetl
- Lidoderm Not Working
- Don't use anymore. Did not work at all.
- Lyrica Somewhat Helpful
- Not on this anymore. It caused terrible body jerks.
- Methadone Somewhat Helpful
- Can't tell the difference much. I take 10 mg 3 times a day and 20 mg at bedtime. I still take my breakthrough pain meds regularly.
- Nerve Blocks Not Working
- Just had my first one last Thursday. The doctor couldn't get to the nerve where he needed to be because of the hardware in my neck. I found the whole procedure very painful and am still in pain from it.
- Neurontin Somewhat Helpful
- I take this 4 times a day. It does cause the body jerks but not quite as bad as the Lyrica did. I take 600 mg. 4 times a day.
- Oxycodone Working / Worked
- This is my breakthrough pain med. Works well for me. It does cause occasional dizziness and of course sleepiness. I take 7.5/325 2 tabs every 4 hours.
- Physical Therapy Not Working
- I failed physical therapy 4 times. They won't try it anymore.
- TENS Not Working
- Actually caused muscle spasms to be worse.
- Lexapro Working / Worked
- Seems to help a lot with the depression but I hate the sexual side effects. I take 20 mg. once a day.
- Ativan Working / Worked
- This helps with the anxiety a lot. It causes drowsiness so I only take it as needed and I take only 1 mg
- Valium Working / Worked
- I take this for sleep. I take 1-2 5mg tablets at bedtime. Before I was only sleeping for about 45 minutes at a time and now I can sleep about 2-3 hours at a time before waking up because of the pain.
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