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Close Chronic Pain

Decades of Chronic pain. Osteoarthritis, Fibromyalgia, multiple surgeries, nerve damage, bulging discs and migraine headaches.I need support and maybe learn new pain mgmt techniques.

Treatments

Acupressure Working / Worked

Can't afford to do it every week as I need to but it helps when I do.

Chiropractic Adjustment Working / Worked

I can go up to like 27 times a year so I try to go every other week or so. But there are times when I have to leave work without notice to get it done because I hurt so bad. This is the only thing that keeps my right shoulder in place, it comes out daily and pushes on the nerves down my arm and hurts like hell until its popped back in.

Cymbalta Not Working

didn't help

Flexeril Working / Worked

Its hard to take it all day if you're working because it makes you so tired. I don't take it anymore. But it did relieve the tense muscles.

Heat Somewhat Helpful

it relaxes my muscles and helps relieve the tension.

Hydrocodone Working / Worked

I still take this when I need to along with my methadone. I take up to 2 10/500 pills every 4 hours as needed.

Lidoderm Somewhat Helpful

Unfortunately it only helps where you put it and I hurt everywhere. I stopped using them.

Lyrica Not Working

It helped with the pain but it cause me to swell up and I wasn't able to keep taking it.

Meditation Working / Worked

Sometimes I use Biofeedback to try and relieve some of the worse pain but all it helps you do is relax your muscles.

Methadone Working / Worked

Seems to be helping me more than anything else I've tried. I take 10 mg 4 times a day and it doesn't make me high. But I still have to take my Loratab when I'm really hurting bad.

Morphine Not Working

All this did for me was make me so high I didn't care or couldn't tell anyone I still hurt. It never stopped the pain.

Naproxen Not Working

Never helped me. Other than to relieve swelling right after surgery.

Nerve Blocks Considering

I'm worried about the permanent effects and if I will end up stuck with numbness areas because I already deal with that with me nerve damage and it drives me nuts.

Neurontin Not Working

Didn't help me.

Oxycodone Working / Worked

It helps but makes me really tired. I'm trying not to have to start taking the regularly,I'm saving it as a last resort.

Physical Therapy Not Working

I did 2 6 week stints of occupational therapy where they had me doing work hardening for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and it didn't help.

TENS Somewhat Helpful

Mine doesn't work anymore but it did help relax my muscles. The problem with this is that I didn't have anyone to help me put the pads on and off and I really wanted it on all the time when I was using it because at the time I wasn't getting any medication that helped relieve the pain.

Close Physical & Emotional Abuse

Treatments

Abuse Counseling Not Working

never helped me

Art Working / Worked

It helps me relax

Divorce Working / Worked

worked the first time to a degree. He did take off with my daughter for a few years after that though and I didn't kno where she was.

Forgiveness Working / Worked

I always forgive. I might go as far as to say I forgive too much, but I'm sure God would disagree.

Group Therapy Somewhat Helpful

It helped to share experiences as long as everyone was willing to help each other and be open minded about trying different ways to help themselves.

Leave Working / Worked

It's hard but probably the best thing I could do for myself. I only left for my children before, not I think I need to take care of me.

Music Working / Worked

If I used it for relaxation or meditation exercises it helped. But it wa one of the bifggest fights my husband and I had because we were in a band together and now I don't like music much anymore because of what he put me through and how I feel about it now.

Psychotherapy Not Working

I don't think it helps at all and I don't think there's much medical assistance there and sometimes I think those Doctors make you worse, not better.

Talking Working / Worked

talking is great if everyone is serious and listening and trying to understand the other person. It doesn't work at all if the other person doesn't care.