Burning sensation is generally nerve pain/parasthesia.

Nortriptyline (Pamelor) and Cymbalta are anti-depressants but have beeen found to provide pain relief in low doses (much lower than the anti-depressant dose).

The studies as well as my experience show that the combination of a nerve med and one of these low dose anti-depressants give greater pain relief than either alone.

How do nerve glides work for anyone? my pt only gave me one to try and that one exacerbates my shoulder. Is there a good site for them?

In the useful sticky thread- posts #8 & # 51 links below-

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post32722-8.html
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post711059-51.html

Nerve glides don't work for me either, I wonder why? and I wish they did work!

Gabapentin is like a nerve med as it used for patients with fibromylgia kind of pain. It helps us as TOS patients mainly if you have nerve pain ( it helps with irritated nerves). It kind of takes the edge off as someone mentioned and helps us go around our chores and tasks, but it does not do it all.

JKL626,
The other thing I forgot mention was if you avoid looking down, it really helps with the neck pain. If you read, read with your kindle/mag/newspaper on a stand like the musicians do. ( cheap alternative for a kindle or book is a brochure holder ) A lap top is much better than a Ipad, so you limit your looking down too much. Helps me a lot.

Stos, I do have a laptop,definately much better than a mouse, but I still get sore typing. What is the best way ergonomically to type with a laptop?I am ususally sitting on a couch . when I try to use it at a table, I get sore right away. I think I'll try to put it on phone books. I also am trying to type with my left hand. I definately need help with ergonomics!

I got a new laptop after Christmas, it my back up & important papers/files machine -, so I only use it once in awhile.

But it has built in mic & voice recognition with Win 7.
You can also plug in a mic to use the VR.
Getting it set up didn't take very long and you can do quite a bit of things with voice instead of mouse or touch pad.

I think Vista has the VR available too.

And Mac has a similar thing, I can't recall the name of it though. ispeak??

Part of it is laptops have a narrower/smaller keyboard so putting wrists closer together in front of you usually rotates elbows out and shoulder rotate in.
usually not a good position of most of us.
I have to use a separate mouse for comfort with my laptop - touch pad is not that great for me.

viewing height/angles w/ laptops.. tough part is getting it so you aren't looking down too much, but can still type or touch pad in comfort... trial and error thing. experiment to see what works for your situation.

My desktop is my main and most ergo set up.

Sorry, but I don't have to type much except for writing on this forum, since all the members are so knowledgeable and help me so much, it's worth a little pain. But I do have to take breaks as I still have to figure out the ergonomics of that. Jo mar has some good suggestions, I will take her advice for ergonomics too.

I have tried every nerve med there is, w/o much luck. Had side effects to all of them so was told to stop taking. Narcotic meds. don't help nerve p. Much. I found muscle relaxants help some but not wo. Side effects for me. I have burning /sore deep pain from my upper back down thru. Scapula & shoulder area. Also sharp stabbing pains in clavicle and base of neck w/numbness, more so after any simple activity.
I started taking Neurotin again, just at nite 600mg. at 7pm, when I'm at my worst. I found 900mg to make me unable to get up in am. No doing whole lot for my pain, but helping me to sleep w/o having to take narcotics or tramadol. I also take ativan at nite. U can go as high as 2700mg., usually 3x day.
I did prolo a lot of different areas for different problems and found some relief, especially for planetary fascitis, elbow tendonitis and thumb arthritis. I remember my prolotherapists said Neural Therapy was for scar tissue from surgery. He did this too.
Good Luck!