Back Pain Support Group

Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care. In fact, about 3 in 4 adults will experience back pain during their lifetime! The term back pain includes pain affecting the neck, midback and low back. Acute back pain may begin suddenly with intense pain but typically lasts fewer than three months. Usually, chronic back pain is persistent, steady, and...

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Tired of living in a daily hell

ComputerScienceKid
ComputerScienceKid
I have been on hydrocodone/apap for last 3 years for chronic sciatica and knee pain. The 7.5/325 3times daily has help kept me as comfortable as could be. Last march I also started 3 Motrin 800's to supplement the hydrocodone. I am not sure if my family doc will keep me on it, his practice doesn't write CII scrip's to the best of my knowledge. I just blows you find relief and because of some jokes that need to play with fire pain patients have to pay. Since 2008 I have been horrible amounts of back pain I am 25 year old now try only using one doctor and one pharmacy I just don't see why Washington needs to changes the rules.
annettearizona
annettearizona
There is a 10 regarding the strength of that meds...but does your dr have you do any PT by chance?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hey ComputerScienceKid! Your pain sounds awful! I'm quite new to this and just doing some research myself as I am finding a lot of contradictory info. From information that I have gathered thus far massage therapy combined with strengthening exercises help. Found this blog pretty helpful. Might be worth a look? http://supt.com.au/prolapsed-discs-back-pain/
Misty-Hoffman
Misty-Hoffman
I feel your pain..literally and figuratively.. I have MS and a crushed vertebrae complicated by a botched vertebroplasty that left a cement blob in my back. Thanks to all the @#$%&%$# that illegally traffic and use pain meds,life is hell for those of us who are in pain and legitimately need pain meds to have some sort of life. I'm so angry at the Pre people who abuse the system.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hi ComputerScienceKid

I am responding to your post because I can relate, somewhat. I was 21 when I started suffering from back pain. It got so bad, I could not sleep anymore. I would wake up in pain, suffer through the day in pain and then back again to no sleep. I did not take any drugs though, except over the counter pills. After seeing numerous doctors, they set a date for surgery; the diagnosis was called lumbar spondylosis. The surgery would restrict my movement by 25%. The pain would never completely go away.

It didn't sound right so I walked away. Today, some 20 years later, I am more fit than ever, with no pain at all. I focussed on understanding what was happening to me, overall. I did not focus on the back specifically. What was my body trying to tell me by creating this pain? The fundamental problem - alignment or rather, mis-alignment of the body structure.

There are many many ways of relieving the pain, drug free. I know because I have done it. In fact I am so convinced of this that I have since opened a pain management clinic and have treated clients successfully to get rid of their pain completely or at the very least, reduce it so that life is not "living in a daily hell". I would like to help if I can.

Don't lose hope.
JustShootMeNow
JustShootMeNow
I am taking an online course called "The Science of Natural Healing." The instructor, a cardiologist, goes into great detail about how food can cause or help inflammation. She made a statement that the spice turmeric is as potent an anti-inflammatory as hydrocodone. I have been taking a veggie capsule full of ground turmeric twice a day for a few days. I think it's helping. I'll keep you posted.