i shy away from pain meds because i don't want to be misdiagnosed with epilepsy again. also i tend to do better without them.

have never tried lyrica. the last thing i tried was valium when i fell in the bathroom. they didn't give me very many and i was not that impressed.

water is a great "pain pill". i take a water aerobics class. some of the things i can't do, so i have to put up with the instructor repeating "under the water" when i can't push it under the water no matter how often she repeats it. (maybe she has echolalia?) lol.

anyway, after the class, i do a few laps elementary backstroke to get totally relaxed, and then i do stretches and nerve glides. think this does more to reduce my pain than anything else.

then i get in the whirlpool and i position my body with the water pressure over trigger points. after i have jetted a trigger point for a while, i find another.