Questions & Answers

Been a few days since I've been on. Been that kind of week. Want to give an update just don't have it in me right now. I do have a question about a new medicine, though. Does anyone have any thoughts about Amitriptylin? Has it helped you? And, since I haven't slept in a few days, does it help you sleep? And lastly, do you feel groggy the next day. Mine are 10 mg.

Thanks everyone. Blessings.

Two years ago I began to have shoulder and neck pain. At first I thought it was a bad night sleep and had a little bit of tension
Then I began to have a relapse in my depression and also the pain got worse
Finally my pain management doctor ordered an MRI and he told me that I had a bulging disc in my lower back.
So my question is...
Is somatic pain REAL & the physical pain was due to the depression?
Or was it physical AND somatic?
Does anyone now or in the past have a doctor that didn't… read more

can my pain management perscripe me oxycodone and dilaudid both at the same time

Interested in knowing if the treatment was successful.

Meridian is IL public aid insurance. My pain management that I was seeing,Comprehensive Pain Management just closed, so I have no where to get my pain medicine. I live in Caseyville IL, but am willing to travel reasonable amount of miles.

Arnold Chiari Malformation is a brain disorder. pretty much my brain is to big for my skull so it seeps down my spinal cord and causes a whole mess of other problems.

(Kee R E)

I'm looking for a pain mngmnt Dr in Jefferson or Tuscaloosa counties,in Alabama,or anywhere else around if you've had good experiences.It's a shame how you get treated just because you have chronic pain,we didnt ask to have the diseases or conditions we have to live with, no more than a diabetic or heart patient ask for their conditions, or to have to take pain med's to have a somewhat normal as can be life that we can have,most days I don't even feel like getting on fb,but if anyone knows of… read more

The doctors have me on the quadfecta of medications to treat fibromyalgia and all of its wonderful symtpoms, (baclofen, topiramate, cymbalta and lyrica), however, it has also caused me to gain almost 30 pounds in 3 months. I am now the heaviest I have ever been, which is making everything worse both physically and mentally. Does anybody have any alternatives either pharmaceutical or naturopathic?

I was diagnosed with requiring both knees needed to be replaced. My consultant however told me that he wouldn't be able to do the operations as it was clear that I was experiencing nerve pain from my spine to both knees. He had two previous patients with similar conditions who had their knee joint replaced and both returned to see the consultant and begged him to amputate their leg as their nerve pain was so great after the surgery. He told me that he would never take the risk of doing… read more