[I am super sensitive to just about all meds so I take as little as possible]

Have you ever tried homeopathy or alternative treatments?
acupuncture, hypnosis, things along those lines?

Ok Junie!! If you change your mind or just want to hang out feel free to drop in!

I can't afford any treatments anymore...my insurance was changed again a year ago and now its 20% and we can't take anymore hits...MRI= 120.00. My husband just had 2nd bypass surgery in April, I have not been able to work since 2000 and have been waiting on disability and last letter said maybe another 18-24 more months before hearing so I am over anymore treatments. If I had stayed away from Dr's I would not be where I am today! I trust none of them!

Junie, you are most welcome here. I once thought I was a thread killer, every time I posted the thread died. lol

Have you tried to post to the ms forum or other neuro threads? I know you don't have ms or maybe not the others but they all understand chronic pain. My husband has been living with chronic pain for years. He is currently on methadone and it helps greatly. He also take Zoloft for depression.

Please come back and dabble in various forums even though you've had problems before. Many of us joined here less than a year ago and are new here from another site. Hugs!

Hi Junie,
Looks to me like there a few of us here now...if we continue to chat, others may join in and stay. We have to stay to build it. I only check in once or twice a week, so don't be offended if I'm not here every day. I work 6 days a week

I've suffered from chronic low back pain for many years now...sometimes it gets a bit better (like right now) and other times I'm in tears. Its a bad place to be, and can be depressing. Forum support, friendship and sharing experience is important. Fighting is really not worth our time or energy and I see very little of that here at NT world.

Glad you came back! Stay and visit...I'll try and be here so you don't feel so alone

<----------Thread Killer here too!! LMAO!!

OK, I am not a doctor but *some* depressions will only get better with Bipolar meds, such as Lithium. Just a suggestion for your doctor, ok? I had to go on Lithium to get better from depression, and some forms of depression are really Bipolar. I'm not at all suggesting you have this, just throwing out some new ideas. Also, if you're a misfit, then everyone is, including me. Going to buy food is a real "party." I finally get it in the cart and go to the checkout. THEN, it takes me forever to get it out of the cart! UGH! Very few people care. They get so mad at me, throw me looks, and then start asking me hurry up! DUH! If I COULD, I WOULD! The hands refuse to do it. Maybe I should tell them to talk to the hands? I would, but by then I'm so angry back at them, that I just give them the evil eye. Oh yeah! Then trying to get the bags in the house? HA! It takes forever and I just LOVE the way the neighbors stare at me like I'm a lazy loser. UGH! Anyway, I DO understand how you feel.

Junie, sorry I took so long to chime in...Sandy is right...I don't have MS and yet those MSers welcome me with open arms to their forum...I hope you don't give up on all of us...me personally would like to get to know you better. We have a lot in common, pain and all!!

Junie,: I have suffered from the stares, parking in a Handicapped Spots; I hang my placard on the mirror & some of them, I show them 4'' scars on both sides of my throat I have had 5 major Spinal Surgery's. 1. I had 4 in one month; June-July 14th my Birthday, I was crowned with a halo for 4 months. In Feb. 2008 I had my latest-They fused Cervical 3 thru 7. Some days i take Dilaudid 4mg. 4 times a day. I feel so GUILTY. I'm sorry but I have no guilt.
Got my diabetes under control-with meds. Other than this damndable pain. I have taken Amphetamines for 54 yrs., which actually helps me more than 40mg. of Prozac a day. Very few pain specialist have ever heard of Adderall 30mg.@ least 5 a day.I took a drug holiday, not long ago(from adderall) My BP went from 130/74...to205/105. So I started taking 2 an hour & 1 Dilaudid 4mg.
Lo& behold it went back to normal. I don't know if it will work for you with Chronic Pain, I will say a prayer for you June Bug, to find some relief. (STAY AWAY FROM THAT CLIFF)..................Respectfully Yours, Mack Doss