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Thank you for your comment! I have just FINALLY been prescribed Oxycodone 5mgs for my fibro and Chronic Daily Headache pain. I have been talking to my doctor for so long and now it took me almost having a nervous breakdown and almost loosing my job to even get that. I only got some relief from the headaches after taking 7 of the 5 mg. Very frustrating! I have been taking Lyrica for only about 2 months with great relief for my neck/shoulder pain - even that is amazing to me. I have been battling this pain since I had a bad whiplash accident 18 years ago! I would like to talk more with you ...
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I have FMS and a myriad of other issues, degenerative discs, bulging discs, shoulder impingement, chronic lower back pain. And as soon as a doctor sees I have FMS, they ignore the fact that I was on Vicoprofen for almost 3 years before I moved to another state and no doctor in this new state will listen to me.
They won't even call my old doctors.
I email the University of Michigan and told them that because of their study, the doctors refuse to give me opiods because I have FMS. I did get a response and if you would like a copy of my correspondence I would like to share it with you.
I feel your pain- literally I have the same problems you have and have met with the same difficulties upon returning to michigan I have heard this from the doc- narcotics are no recommended for fibro - funny, it helped me gain some of my life back. Now this study says it should not have? get more subjects, do more testing don't be so quick to publish something.!! I would be so interested in reading the reply you got!!!!
its hard to read this type of crap, especially when the person wrighting this has no idea how horribly painful fibromyalgia is. I have tried all of the natural crap that DOES NOT WORK. I want to see a doctor that experences fibro pain EVERY DAY OF THERE LIFE so they can make a reasonable and more accurate decision on how to treat the patient, rather than turning a blind eye or have that weird ignorance about addiction! its called tolerance not addiction. people put there dogs down who are in less pain than fibro patents.
Lets get this straight. ANTI DEPPRESANTS ARE EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE!!!!!
dont belive me look it up it will be staring you back in the face. would you take an epileptic off there anti convolsants cause you thought they would get addicted? what is the difference for chronic pain patients? there is no cure, your in excruciating pain 24/ 7 sometimes even to the point where you can not even get out of bed to use the bathroom and your just expected to...... what get over it? live with the pain that makes you want to kill yourself? the Amercian medical association reallys needs to get there prioritys straight. either your going to have millions of people with FMS on disabillity and in pain with the reality that there about to take there life at any point cause of the ignorant conditions the doctors portray, or educate our fellow medical society and give these poor people ( including me ) some relief so we think life is worth living, get us working again and becoming a functional part of society again. I can say that have fibromyalgia is like having cancer but not dieing from it. A LIVING NIGHTMARE! do not believe everything your doctor says cause he/ she is probably getting a pay off by big pharma to put you on those awful antidepressants. once again don't belive me? look it up...the proof is in the pudding.
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Very interesting article affirming my resistance to narcotic pain medication over many years.
I received my fibromyagia diagnosis in 1984 by a wonderful rheumatologist. Back then it was still referred to as fibrositis due to the misquided belief inflamation was causing the pain. I cried when the doctor told me that it would not physical twist and deform my joints but that it was not all in my head. He assured me my pain was real and that emotionally it could cripple me but back then the standard course of treatment was high doses of buffered aspirin which did nothing to relieve the pain or improve my seriously disturbed sleep.
Over the next eight years or so I mostly had no treatment for my fibro, with intermittent periods when I was prescribed amytriptiline to help combat the sleep problems. It was helpful but I had the constant aching between the flares. Always the echoes of crazy, lazy and malingerer remained in the back of my mind along with the USMC boot camp creedos, No Pain No Gain and you have to break those muscles down before you can build them back up. I would push myself until I got so ill I couldn't go on.
The depression always seemed to me like the proverbial chicken and egg until I finally got into the VA healthcare system. Once there I was repeatedly asked about sexual abuse and harrassment during my tour of duty. When that dam finally burst I finally began my journey out of the darkness of PTSD and into the light of really living.
I have continued to educate myself about brain chemistry and the medications that do or don't work. Over the past few years it's become more difficult to discern where pain from fibro and other medical conditions meet and overlap. Thus I have requested and received a referral to the VA Hospital's pain clinic and a new chapter begins. In the interim low dose, slow relief morphine in conjunction with neurontin, naproxen and physical therapy have kept me functioning at a level I can live with for now.
The most important thing for me is that I have an understanding of the tools I am given. The information I have found here is a key element to managing my own health care and I have found my doctors to be quite receptive to my desire to be a part of the health care team.
Thank you Karen.
I am so glad to hear you have doctors who are willing to work with you as a team. That is often the most valuable asset we can have as we work to deal with our pain and other assorted symptoms and improve our quality of life. I wish you the very best as you enter this new chapter of your life with FM.