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Ketamine pain cream

ayla67
ayla67
I use a pain cream with ketamine, baclofen, neurontin, and cyclobenzamide and a couple other ingredients in it sometimes for my abdominal pain.

Question: Does anyone know if using a tens interferes with pain cream?

Does the heating pad interfere with it?
oldcper
oldcper
It's not a good idea to put your tens pads over the area where you've freshly applied the cream, because they won't stick. The tens won't affect the meds in the cream or the way they work.

For some people if you apply direct heat over a pain relieving cream that contains heavy hitters like ketamin & neurontin & I think you mean Cyclobenzaprine, it can make the area sting or burn. But it won't interfere with how the meds work. It would probably be best to apply the cream, wait about 15 minutes or so, let it absorb into your skin and then use your heating pad.

Ketamine is a very strong anesthetic, so I would use the cream sparingly, you can develop a tolerance to a medication in a cream base the same as in a pill or liquid form.

Also, just an FYI, not sure if you've ever tried them but the Thermacare heat wraps that you can get at any pharmacy or wal-mart, work really well for heat when your out and about and can't have your heating pad with you.
ayla67
ayla67
Thanks OldCPer, for the info, very helpful.