YEs you need some releif. Go see a new doc and see what his/her reaction is. Your not a drug seeker and it drives me insane how these docs can make us feel. You can't live with this pain and not take anything. Today for example was and still is a huge bday party for my son, which now has turned into a poker party. I am exausted but the show must go on. I was in agony the entire time with no meds in me except baclofen and ativan and trust me that barely touched it. I was a mess and I think people can really read my reactions today. I truly try to hide how I feel but OMG without meds how can that be possible. You take care of you! You see another doc and get some releif. You are amazing to have gone this long!! Soft Gentle hugs DC

Do you have a diagnosis? I think you need a diagnosis and plan of care.
Anytime you are being dismissed as you have described is not a good sign.

If you haven't ate the percocet, Do you need them? I'm thinking I'm not following 5 percs for a year and a half and you've been living with bad pain. That's just sad.

I'd fess up to a doctor who specialises in Fibro and/or MPS. Oh and let them know how much motrin/alieve or tyelenol you take on a daily basis.
By the time I got to the doctor, I was taking way too much over the counter crud which was frying my stomach... The pain doctor had a cow at me for not getting myself heard.
Good luck to you and I hope you feel better soon...

yes Cares, I'm surprised I don't have a stomach ulcer or bleeding from the amt. of alleve I take! And yes I have a diagnosis for both. Last winter the pain got so bad that I got depressed and I was alread totally stressed out and the pain finally got so bad I wound up in the emergency room not only with pain but from deep depression and a suicide attempt. I AM NOT going to go through that again!! Winter is coming on and I am worried! I will be seeing a new dr. soon and it just so happens his wife has Fibr. So he surely understands. (I hope)

Cares, I'm curious how much motrin you were taking when the dr. had a cow.

yes, pain meds help me. right now i take Norco (tylenol/vicoden mix) i would switch dr.s if she's not going to help you.

I don't know where that crap came from but it makes me crazy that so many doctors believe it. Maybe if they talked to their patients, or to patients with fibro/MPS they would learn something.

I take Mobic and Tramadol daily, and Vicodin/hydrocodone for breakthrough pain, and they help tremendously. Since I got this worked out with my doctor's help, I have been able to take back my life in meaningful ways - I work full-time again, and even ride my bicycle to work - yeah it's electric but I'm working up to pedaling more and more and I'm feeling in charge and healthy again.

If you can't get help and relief from this guy - find another doctor. We need to be good consumers of our healthcare. We wouldn't put up with this stuff from the guy who fixes our car - why do we put up with it from our healthcare providers?

At first I got by without any. I also have fibro so eventually once I got diagnosed (7 years later) I can get it. I mostly need it when I stress my muscles to much. They ache at night and make it hard to sleep. If I take a vicodin, it helps me sleep. Another thing that helps allot is to use a topical muscle relaxer (flexeril)directly on the muscle groups that hurt the most. For along time, I hurt all over so this may not be as helpful unless you have localized pain. Capsaicin also works, but can be harse. Avoid sensitive areas (face, groin)and use ice to quench pain. Proceed slowly with this one.

db

Flexeril - at least the one I'm familiar with - is a prescription muscle relaxer that comes as a pill - what am I missing here?

Does the flexeril come in a cream and a pill form?

My pain was over the top last night. I am NOT going to live this way all winter long again. I am going to make an appt. soon with the new dr. I have in mind. I've taken Percucet (sp) and it helps. Is Vicodine a milder pain med? if it is that's what i will ask for.
Thanks,
~dixie

You can get many drugs in topical form if you go to a compounding pharmacist. I was having trouble with my equilibrium from taking Flexeril orally. But using it in a cream has been no problem. db

I was just prescribed Nortriptyline by my Dr. I was on it before, but don't like to take meds of any kind, but the pain was so bad recently I would have tried anything. I'm going to give it a try.

You need another doc. You need one that cares about you and wants you to have a good quality of life and that is through pain control.

Hello,
I am one of the people who have Fibro along FPS and the ONY thing tht does work are apin meds. They simply block pain messages.How could your dDoc say they wouldn't work. He should have just told you that he doesn't want to prescribe them.
Wen

I'm not sure what FPS is. Could it be CMP-chronic myofascial pain?

My doctor doesn't believe in pain meds either. He says they don't work for fibro or MPS, which is BS! The problem is that there are too many people abusing pain medication that the doctors won't give the medicine to the people that really need it so that they can save their own butts. Then we are the ones suffering because they just assume that we will abuse the stuff.

I had a really great doctor who knew I didn't abuse my medication but he got a job offer in California and moved. Now I am seeing a guy that thinks everyone is an addict. I live in a really small town and there aren't may doctors to choose from here and they are all pretty closed minded. More than likely I am going to have to drive more than an hour to find one that is going to actually be a decent doctor. I think a lot of the doctors around where I live are here because they couldn't get a job anywhere else.