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Chronic Pain Management

My Orthopedic Hell

Question:
I’ve had 3 things medical misfortunes that gang up on me and cause chronic pain that nearly paralyzes me on the worst days. I had my right arm severed in a car wreck years ago. I was shot in my sciatic nerve by a carjacker and it has caused my right leg [...]

Oxycontin&Topamx

Question:
Hi all, Has anybody any experience of using topamax with oxycontin? My wife’s pain doctor put her on it but wasn’t very clear about his reasons….we’ve read somewhere that the oxycontin can cause convulsions and the topamax is meant to counteract this…is this true? George

Response:
Topamax is used for neuropathic [...]

knee pain

Question:
How do you deal with chronic knee pain, when the doctors say there is nothing else they can do, but the pain is still there.  It has changed my life drastically, and I can not accept the fact that I will always have pain when I walk.

Response:
> How do you [...]

Dihydrocodiene dosage

Question:
I’m relatively new to the Chronic Pain saga. having moved off ‘normal’ Codiene onto Dihydrocodiene Tartrate (30mg) recently because the former did little for me. I find that the 1 or 2 tablets up to 4 times a day that my Doctor (UK,GP) prescribed is little more help. I find myself [...]

Doc appt tomorrow

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I am being worked in tomorrow at my orth-surgeons office. He did neck surgery about a month ago. And he had sent me to pain clinic in past – but now he has taken over that also. Doc wrote script for Percocet but he keeps upping [...]

need referral in Southern CA

Question:
My daughter is being treated for chronic, severe, constant pain and has taken Oxycontin daily for over a year and a half.  Because of a recent move, we need to find a local doctor (within an hours drive) that would be willing to manage her pain meds.  Most doctors are leary of [...]

Zyprexa

Question:
I was just put on Zyprexa anyone have any experience with this? What can you tell me? Mykel

Response:
> I was just put on Zyprexa anyone have any experience with this? What can you > tell me? > Mykel
I’m on it now (but in the process of a p-doc [...]

Where in the World ???

Question:
>> Friends , snipped > On the other hand….  I have heard that Austrailia is pretty liberal with > their pain management.  Maybe Katherine or some of the others from down under > will be willing to educate us???
I’m not actually sure how things are overall – whether [...]

Pain site wondering if it was any good?

Question:
  Hi Robin and Bonner,    I think that is true of both this site and Skip Bakers’.  They’re the best we have, but I have seen and reported doctors on the list whom I know to be intolerant of pain patients, and obviously just looking for a bit of free [...]

Post-op acute pain management

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I wrote a few weeks ago about the potential of an upcoming surgery.  My question was what pain-control medications would be adequate assuming that the post-pain is expected to be severe for many weeks, and the patient is very opiate tolerant, and the patient is intensely needle phobic and will not [...]