Sounds like you could benefit from a muscle relaxer

I also suffer from nerve pain. You might want to ask your doctor about trying you on gabapentin, which helps with nerve pain.

My doctor put me on Lyrica I while back I hear that it does work however I could not take my vision was bad and my face and everything goes phone doesn't mean that would happen to you you might want to give that a try I do know people that are on it and they say it helps a lot good luck

@A MyChronicPainTeam Member, sorry you are hurting like a b*#%@ hope today is better. I have been ranging a 7 lately about 3 days after on cymbalta was an 8. on day 6 at 30 mg then supposed to increase to 60 mg afterwards. each month is hard as doctors put me on low dose of methadone for 13 years for chronic pain. of course i am dependant upon it but huge difference is never once abused it and never tested positive on random drug tests as required by docs office. being taken off it as doctors in michigan are really being forced to not treat chronic pain patients with opiates anymore, even with mri proof of moderate spinal damage. so now each month getting slowly titrated or weaned off less which of course is painful (not withdrawal symptoms) just more pain first tow and a half weeks after each lowered dose. went to a pain clinic and they lowered dose too fast and i developed a flo vent heart murmur from my blood pressure skyrocketing (i don't have high blood pressure). so obviously never went back to that place again. i am not happy that doctor is taking me off the medicine but it is at epidemic levels (doctors taking medicaid/medicare patients off opiates) in my county. and i am hearing it is happening nationwide and worldwide and we the patients get to suffer because of it. if we were able we would all be out marching and protesting over this new harm being done to us. but a lot of us are unable to be mobile enough because of the pain. hope your pain is better than yesterday and that some joy comes your way.

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I take amytriptyline, topomax, and a very low dose of gapapentin. For me personally I gained a lot of weight on gabapentin. It took a lot of time for me to lose that weight....