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Originally Posted by zorrro13
"I take my pain meds when it happens but they take 40-60 mins to work"
When I first started taking Lyrica I was under the impression that it worked like a pain med ie, Take more if pain increases when in fact it wasnt that type of med. Nobody mentioned it had to be built up in the blood over time.
I used to swing from my initial dosage of 150mg to 450mg daily if the pain was chronic. I was in LALAland
what pain meds do you take?
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I take oxycontin, oxycodone and flexeril (muscle relaxer)(which ALL put
me in lalala land
![Stick Out Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif)
!) for the so called pain maintenance and breakthrough. They help to keep the pain down or bring it down. I use the oxycontin for maintenance and the others for the end of the day of flare-ups.
None of them are really helping as much as they used to, or I am going through something new; I am also breaking out with these itchy little sores all over my hair line, the back of my neck and the back/base of my head. This seems to happen every year around the anniversary of when I first got sick, normally February/March. So maybe I am having sort of virus fight and am having an autoimmune reaction? and the pain is just so bad the pain meds aren’t working anymore. Or I am worried I have become acclimatized to them, built up a resistance. I have not done a search into alternative pain meds as I have found it a bit overwhelming to look up med advise on line; I might just ask here about what others have found as better methods of breakthrough pain remedies?
Thanks aussiemom - that will be worth looking into!
Thanks for the input
p.s. Lyrica doesn't help me as I don't have any myelin sheath problems - just sfn.