Originally Posted by frank405

Hello to everyone. My name is Frank. I am 58 and have been suffering from neuropathic foot pain for almost 15 years. Each year the pain as gotten worse. Over the years I turned to my various internists and podiatrists to helped control the pain. They have prescribed elavil, tegretol, gabapentin, lyrica, cymbalta, vidodin alone and in assorted combinations and theses concoctions worked for awhile and then lost their effectiveness. In March of this year I had a medical crisis, caused by my pain and my medications, which landed me in the hospital for 2 days. I don't remember anything about my hospital stay. I was "gone" during the incident. It was then I decided to seek help from a doctor who specialized in the treatment of pain. That was one of my better decisions. He got that I was in pain 24/7 and that it affected all aspects of my life. He said that he had a medication that had worked for him and many of his other patients. The medication is Subutex(buprenorphine). Its been a life-saver for my. I take 4 miligrams 5 times a day. It controls the pain so well that most of the time I am not fearing an onset of pain. The downside is that the doctor visits and the medication is very expensive. Thank God for my mother. Well, I'll stop now. I have to get ready to walk my dog. Nice meeting everyone.