Hi;

I'm 37, and one evening Jan 2010 as I sat to relax for the evening it felt like I was doused with gas and lit up - my fam dr put me on Lyrica and said it was nerve pain..live with it, I've seen every dr under the sun, nothng shows in MRI or x-rays - I research daily and came across a gentlmen who cured his 'nerve pain' after being treated for a muscle spams of the Longussumis Colli (neck muscle) this interested me because from day one I beleived this was sort of an injury, from weight training ect...I decided to ask my Dr for a muscle relaxor and she put me on Baclofen (after a yr on Lyrica, Norty, Percs ect and none helped at all!!) the baclofen helped - I just started seeing a Osteopath to see if he can help, I am going to stay on him t stay focused as he has me buying ten visits (1500. - which i've paid n full) and is 'balancing me' - hasnt even examined me painful area yet...but hes the best -I drive over 1/5 hrs both ways to see him each week -sometimes 2x's.

I'm wondering can MyofacialPain be cured?

Problem Im having is Ive been nausiated so bad for 6 weeks- vomit violently every few days out of the blue -motion sickness.. what other meds can I try?

Pain in My D...
I don't know the answer to your medication problems, assuming that is why you are nauseated. Just in case though, I had nausea for months when the trp's were flared really bad. Don't know for sure if it was the pain, or trp's in areas that would cause nausea.
I can say that yes, myofascial pain is curable. There is a belief that it can be either acute or chronic. But even with chronic forms, it can be controlled so that chronic really can just mean that you would be more prone to that response.
I haven't had a trp for a couple of months now. One therapist suggested it was chronic. I saw a Bonnie Pruden myotherapist who helped me a lot. Then I saw another myotherapist in another town a couple of times. I've done other energy work including remote healings of medical qigong, and working with a healer named Trivedi. I believe it all helped. I took muscle relaxers for just a few months. Both prescription and over the counter herbals. But Enid with Bonnie Pruden, and the other myotherapist both told me that in order to get the amount of help one needs from muscle relaxers an extremely high dose would have to be taken. So, I got off of them and honestly, with trigger point therapy I didn't need them. Not that I wasn't in pain. But I didn't see a significant change in the level of pain on or off.

Like Asunda, I have come a long way toward curing MPS. In my experience, drugs were not the answer. Though some of them blunted the pain, they also blunted my motivation to do the self help thing that eventually did solve, or mostly solved the problem.

Learn and study. Study and learn. You will have to read books, read hundreds of posts off of this site, experiment on your self.

There are a lot of people on this support site who have been down this road and are willing to share their experiences. You will not find one of them who got anywhere with the disease with a purely pharmaceutical approach.

Best of Luck

Hi PaininmyDrs,

I recently changed meds, both pain and depression meds, and was getting violently sick everyday myself. I bought some OTC Dramamine, and take it at least a half hour b4 taking my new meds, and it has helped immensely. Good luck and thanks for sharing.
JD

if your wondering if CMP can be cured, I would have to say yes !!!!
I can now say i am in remission, it took 3 long years of searching what worked for me , but finally i can say I have no pain, at least not the pain I had with spasams and tightness and always feeling like I was tense. I was on this sight one night and a girl mentioned TMS and the John Sarno Book Healing my Back pain. And I thought wth I have nothing to lose. So I bought the book and 2 more he wrote and my goodness I was a tms paient and didn't even know it . Along with the treatment in the book and my wave 3 unit it took me 4 months to be pain free! I am back to work full time, working out again and i feel great. I am off all drugs and I still have a little tenderness here and there but nothing I can't deal with. I finally have my life back! I have to say the book is what put me on track. oh would of thought 14.95 would help a chronic pain paient who spent more than she made a month on Doctor's copays. Read the books .

John Sarno's approach may help you. It may not. He believes that much of the world's back pain is due to psychological issues. As I have opined in other posts, the origins and the cures of this thing we call Myofascial pain are many. The investment to explore this avenue is minimal. If it works for you, please share your journey with the rest of us. If it does not, Move on. All of us have tried several different approaches before we found the one or ones that worked for us.

Yes, definitely Myofascial Pain can be cured. If it is the trigger point version, massage or needling are almost always a part of the solution.

Best of Luck and Welcome to the Board.

Is dry needling anything like accupuncture? I am getting accupuncture and just wanted to know the difference. Thank you.
Also what is TMS?

Dear paininmydr... Pain like you describe is very odd. Myofascial pain does not usually come on in such a devastating way "felt like I was doused with gas and lit up" would cause me to refer the person back to the Dr. But then I have people who just climbed 2 set of stairs tell me they cant walk also. Let us know how the treatment with the osteopath goes.

Paulina Dry needling and acupuncture are different. An acupunture needle is used and put into the skin and into the muscle and literally into the trigger point. the needle is moved in and out of the trigger point to eliminate it. Twitch response s felt and seen as the trigger point is hit with the needle. The area can feel like you got whacked from the inside for a few hours and sometimes sore the next day too. but It is very effective if done by someone that is well trained n trigger points.
Acupuncture is placing the needle in the meridian and usually leaving it for a bit. The needle may be moved, but not for the same reasons as to address the trigger points.
Very different treatment!

Thank you, Nature Girl. I appreciate the explanation.

i use amiyriptiline I take 5 to 10 mgs at night this does not cause any nausea it does make you a little drowsy best taken early in the evening I have had myofacia pain since 1989 and I have tryed most things it can be helped but not cured as far as I understand

naturegirlbones - what kind of doctor would you recommend to get a diagnosis of myofascial pain? As I read many of the posts, some of them sound similar to what I'm dealing with. But I would like to have a professional opinion, if it's possible... it seems like a lot of people on here have said that it's pretty hard to get a real diagnonsis for this problem.
Also wondering if myofascial pain sort of moves around? Every day it's my upper back and neck, but sometimes it also includes my chest and throat/front and sides of neck...

Bullring: I would not say that it cant be cured, for some people it is! Eliminate the cause and cure can happen. Many things can cause myofascial pain.. eliminate trigger points and the perpetuating factors and you can fix the problem. For most people it is more like managing the problem. Drugs dont fix anything, just help you get by.

amom21: Any doctor that understands myofascial pain can DX it. There were half dozen articles including this one: http://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0215/p653.html for general practice docs. they have more articles than more.
Yep myofascial pain moves around sometimes, pain changes etc since trigger points can be more active at one time or another due to the activity you were doing last etc. A good bodyworker can assess you for it, you can figure it out for yourself too. The biggest issue is making sure it is not something else...thyroid, reaction to food or food additives, arthritis etc. Just like Fibro. "well you dont have anything else, so we will call it this" "here try these drugs" Actually the best thing is to get checked then learn to self treat, clean up your diet if needed and toss the meds if you can.
There are some docs that do treatments. we have a few listed on our website, http://www.myofascialtherapy.org/find-a-therapist/index.html also you can look a the training programs http://www.myofascialtherapy.org/events-training/training-programs.html Myopain Seminars teaches to doctors.

Hi naturegirl,
I'm wondering what you meant in your comment "clean up your diet" ?Is there a special diet that is better for someone with myofascial pain?