Getting ready to go see the pain management doc. I have to say I am so tired of being broken. I get that I have to live with the pain. I get that I am broken and it is not healing. There are 4 discs that have herniated inward and are lodged into the 4 broken vertebrae and there is not a darn thing we can do about them. SO yes, pain is expected.

However... I keep getting joint pain like you would not believe to go along with the back. Morphine didn't work now I am on some oxymorphone which is also not working. The problem being that my body processes the meds too quickly thanks to my zombie thyroid being overactive again. Neither of these drugs has done a thing for the joint pain.

The Voltaren worked great for a while, now I am taking 4 times the original dose and I still cannot sleep at night because no matter how I lay something hurts.

Last night it was the right hip (no shocker I have torn hip flexor and bursitis), my knees were locking up, my back hurt. There was just no winning. I finally fell asleep (thanks to the super extended release ambien mixed with pain killers) and I woke up with my back and my knees screaming at me.

SOrry so long. But does anyone have a magic pill or ointment or other treatment that helps with joint pain?