Pain Treatment Options
 

Thought of you all when I saw this today.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/...926/26pain.htm

"Earlier this month, at an international pain conference held in Istanbul, doctors announced that two drugs combined to deal with this kind of pain are better than either one alone. Magdi Hanna of King's College Hospital in London treated over 300 patients with gabapentin, an antiseizure drug that's often used for chronic pain. For half the group, the researchers added oxycodone, an opioid painkiller. The combo knocked patients' feelings of pain down by 33 percent. Gabapentin slows down nerve signals, and opioids dull the brain's perception of discomfort. The two working better together than alone, Hanna says, underscores the fact that chronic pain has complex causes and should be treated by more than one type of therapy."

I was on that combo for a year and it may have reduced my pain by 10%. But, as they say, everyone is different.

nancy-h

I take morphine and Neurontin and that works pretty well it that when the pain as bad and nothing really worked. I asked I have to take a muscle relaxer, like Valium. I think most people find a combination works better than just upping one drug or type of drug.

Levels of neurontin and oxycontin
 

I have been on at least 30 pain meds at very high doses. None worked. I never combined them. What levels are you using for these combinations.
I have RSD and Fibro. throughout my body and am in severe pain constantly with not meds for relief.
Sydney

Need advice for chronic pain treatment
 

I am a 36-year-old female who has been struggling with small nerve fiber neuropathy for five years. I am currently experiencing difficulty with the pain management part. Up to this point I’ve been able to manage my pain with gabapentin, nortriptyline, topicals, Oxycodone. I have tried other things for pain management as well such as Nucynta, Cymbalta, morphine and the list goes on and on. Currently my pain management facility is not in agreement that I need to increase on my daily milligrams for my opiate pain control. Currently I only take 40 mg of oxycodone in a 24 hour period. Which is on the low-end of opiate pain control. I am struggling a great deal and my doctors are adamant that because I do not suffer from cancer and I am only 36 years old they do not agree with increasing to the next level. I need advice from anyone out there that may or may not have experienced this and your thoughts or take on the situation. It’s starting to create a great deal of depression in which case I was hospitalized for over a week and I’m starting to feel very defeated so any advice or recommendations anything at all is greatly appreciated.

Hi Hrey1561

Welcome to NeuroTalk; I hope that you will find the community as knowledgeable and supportive as I have :).

I am sorry to read about your neuropathy.

You could describe your experiences in the peripheral neuropathy forum (https://www.neurotalk.org/forum20/).

I am sure that other members will be able to offer you support and helpful suggestions.

All the best.