
Chronic Pain Support Group
Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that is a direct result of injury or trauma. This support group is dedicated to those suffering from chronic pain. Discuss treatments that have worked for you, find advice for your specific experience, and find support. You're not...

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Please pardon me in advance if I come off like a person devoid of a soul. But we have leftover hurricanes coming our way, and perhaps I'm feeling a wee bit ranty.
I get that you guys are trying to help. I know the perils of rebound. Not only that you'll be trapped in a migraine cycle, but that any preventatives you do try won't even work until you're out of rebound. I know that rebound isn't just caused by pain meds, but triptans as well.
So often, the suggestion of rebound due to medication overuse (at least in the media) seems kind of like a huge brush off. "Oh, you're in pain - but it really is your own fault. We're going to write in your file that you've been taking too many drugs."
Ten years of this for me. Ten years of extremely frequent or constant migraine. And I didn't touch pain meds until I was already constant a year. And by the point I was chronic, triptans had stopped working. So, certainly off of them long enough that if it was rebound, I'd've seen an improvement. Preventatives... if my current mix doesn't work, there are only one or two left to try on the master list. After that, I'm waiting for new stuff to be invented.
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say. This wasn't supposed to be a pity me speech. This wasn't supposed to be some sort of rant where I point the finger either.
Just please know that sometimes it isn't rebound.
Thanks if you got this far. :(
I get that you guys are trying to help. I know the perils of rebound. Not only that you'll be trapped in a migraine cycle, but that any preventatives you do try won't even work until you're out of rebound. I know that rebound isn't just caused by pain meds, but triptans as well.
So often, the suggestion of rebound due to medication overuse (at least in the media) seems kind of like a huge brush off. "Oh, you're in pain - but it really is your own fault. We're going to write in your file that you've been taking too many drugs."
Ten years of this for me. Ten years of extremely frequent or constant migraine. And I didn't touch pain meds until I was already constant a year. And by the point I was chronic, triptans had stopped working. So, certainly off of them long enough that if it was rebound, I'd've seen an improvement. Preventatives... if my current mix doesn't work, there are only one or two left to try on the master list. After that, I'm waiting for new stuff to be invented.
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say. This wasn't supposed to be a pity me speech. This wasn't supposed to be some sort of rant where I point the finger either.
Just please know that sometimes it isn't rebound.
Thanks if you got this far. :(
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Hope that you know that you are not alone in thinking this way.
And if you can't rant here where can you? LOL
We are all here to help each other and offer ANY suggestions we can and it was nothing more than that. I have a friend here on DS that just recently moved. Her journal was full of messages to be careful due to her CP that she did'nt hurt herself. Does that mean if she had lifted too many boxes and got down that we would have said too bad, you did this yourself? No one feels that way. We would be the first to comfort her and in now way place blame. We have All had that happen to us too many times to even think of doing it to each other.
Suggestions are just that, and the rebound theory was just ONE of MANY suggestions and I think you took this one out of context. We were just trying to be helpful and it wasn't meant to be taken any other way.
And I point people to look at rebound too. A lot of people take Fioricet and don't realize it is banned in some countries because it is deemed more likely than any other pain med to cause rebound.
It wasn't one post that brought this out. I'm sorry if you felt I was taking out on you, or pointing fingers at other members of your forum. As I said at the end, that wasn't my intent.
I apologize.
I know that rebound speech gets me too. Sometimes maybe it is a rebound, lots of times it isn't, the point is it STILL HURTS!!!
I too got to a point when triptans did not work any longer. It has been a year and I am trying them again so we will see if they work again or not.
I, like you, have tried many things on the "master list" for preventative therapy. E.G. Topmax, Gabapentin, Amitryptaline, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Verapamil, Inderal, Maxeran, stemetil, Zomig, Axert, Amerge, Relpax, DHE etc. The list continues...but we don't have all day.
I am with you on your frustration on this one. I have been treated like crap from the medical side since the beginning of all of this. I did not get headaches for all of my life until about 2.5 years ago when another painful condition was not treated properly. I too did not even touch pain meds until about 6 months ago at home and only and about a year ago was the first time I had been given tried pain meds in an ER setting. Before that I had been given Toradol and Gravol, maxeran and stemetil for ER treatment. If that didn't work...oh well I went home waited 48 more hours and tried a different triptan. At least that's what was recommended I do if those ER "fixes" did not work. Sometimes pain meds are all a person has left for the moment.
Medication aside for the the moment ....the point is that although others are "just trying to help" it does become frustrating to keep hearing rebound headaches and med over-usuage....over and over and over and over. It is also frustrating to hear try "this" (insert name of whatever medication/treatment or herbal supplement here) and when you say you have tried that and it did work/stopped working/is not working whatever and the listing of things keeps going. I am not adverse to trying new things however when I have been in pain for a long time, the last thing I need is for someone to try to "re-invent" the wheel by going through a list of meds to try.
I would love nothing more for there to be something I could take that would prevent my migraines and other chronic pain. I would love not to ever go to an ER again. I would love to have a life that didn't revolve around whether or not I am going to have a headache....because one never knows. I would love for non-narcotic treatment to be developed that works for me when I do get a intractable migraine. Sometimes that is just what the problem is, not a rebound headache, but an intractable migraine.
I know what you are trying to say. My reply maybe didn't make much sense ....but my bottom line is that I understand what you mean. I'm with you!
so belieive I understand.
Hugz
Morgaine