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Originally Posted by EMILY ANDERSON
Hi all. i am so frustrated. The specialist gave a referral for Lyrica to my PCP. Well they can't see me until next week and refuse to prescribe new medications w/o and appt first.........I don't know if I can wait a week. But i don't want to keep going to the E.R. for pain!!! It's a damn catch 22.......I feel like screaming till I can't breathe, till I can't think anymore! I am so tired of this pain already.....I feel like crying and from pain half from frustration and exhaustion...my relationship with my fiance is going down hill fast. He not only doesn't understand the pain (like most people), but he doesn't seem to care, or want to help. I don't know what I can do.....I have to try and put it all behind me when I'm at home so I don't frighten my daughter......god give me more strength, cuz I don't feel like I have enough....   |
Don't have much (any?) experience posting to these threads, so I don't even know if this will work, but I had to try.
I have been in chronic pain for some months now and nobody seems to know what it is or what to do for me. I am having burning pain up my right side and across my upper back and across my abdominal wall (not in my stomach). My doctor was giving me oxycodone (10/325) which seemed to work beautifully, but she has since punted me to a neurologist who refuses to use narcotics. The neurologist started me on gabapentin (generic neurontin), and the pain actually got worse. It went from burning to sharp stabbing pains. Then I was switched to Cymbalta which didn't help either, plus it made my liver ache (I have compromised liver function, but that is another rant entirely). Then I was switched to Lyrica, 50mg, 3x/day. When that didn't work they doubled the dose to 100mg, 3x/day. That seemed to help, for about a week, then not so much.
From reading on these threads I am hearing that Lyrica is every bit as addicting as the narcotics, so go into the Lyrica thing with eyes wide open.
If I'm gonna have to get addicted to something give me the damn narcotics, at least they knock the pain back and don't make me feel like killing myself.
My doctor (Pontius Pilate) has washed her hands of me as long as I am under the care of a neurologist and will no longer prescribe the oxy's. My neurologist (Dr Mengele) refuses to give me narcotics. I honestly don't know what the next step is.
I almost wish the pain came with oozing green and purple pustules so there would be some visual sign of my symptoms. As soon as you ask for a narcotic the doctor labels you as an addict and refuses to even consider them, and nothing else seems to work. A diabetic friend suggested Alpha lipoic acid which helps her with her neuropathy, but it has no effect for me.
I have heard mention of something called Arnica (or arnica montana) on this site, but have yet to look into it.
Hope something here helps. What are your symptoms?