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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Posts: 520
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Glad to here you have found a combination that is helping you get some relief. It is a trial and error situation for a while. I think it was a good move to ditch the tramadol. This medication is known to cause seizures and be extremely hard to get off of. It sounds like you really needed some muscle relaxing properties which the Valium is good for. Also helps you to be less anxious. Being in constant pain and never knowing how bad it is going to get is very anxiety causing. Once you have something you know you can rely on and won't let you get past a certain point with the pain you will be much more happy.
As far as the E.R goes, you know that is what they are there for. Don't let the "drug addict" factor bother you or even acknowledge it. You are a chronic pain patient with serious pain and that is it. If you act like it bothers you they will give you crap about it. Really though you need to get your doctor to do correct pain control so you don't have to visit the E.R. Sounds like that is happening. Maybe you got there attention by continuing to seek pain control without giving up. Good job!
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Had MVA in 2006 resulting in post concussive syndrome manifested by cognitive impairment, chronic pain/ fatigue. Chronic pain of head, neck, back, left leg.
Other problems include REM sleep behavior disorder, nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy, chronic migraines associated with nausea/vertigo, episodes of passing out, hypoglycemia, liver dysfunction (had accidental overdose of acetaminophen in 2009) had liver and kidney failure, hernia, degenerative disc disease with compression of nerve root, PTSD, and other problems associated with functioning problems from traumatic brain injury (light, sound sensitive, easily overloaded, easily distracted, cannot focus, anxiety problems etc.)
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