Living with chronic pain

How much medication is too much?!

Team_Bambu
  • By Team_Bambu · New reply November 21, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • My day consists of a daily ritual of about 30 pills. I wake in the morning to Neurontin, Baclophen, Tramadol, Oxycontin, Valium and Celexa (That is to keep me happy!) Then it is time for the Roxycodone ...

Tens or burning damaged nerves?

janet54
  • By janet54 · New reply October 17, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • Hi,I am new to this group and would like to hear if anyone has had experience with any of these 2 procedures.I am a lung cancer survivor of 1yr.7months.I had the old barbaric lobectomy,upper right lobe ...

Intense Rib & Sternum Pain/Tenderness (costochondritis)...How do you deal?

JaidaMoon
  • By JaidaMoon · Posted October 14, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • To My Fellow Costochondritis Friends; I live with episodes of intense, acutely severe rib and sternum pain and tenderness, also known as costochondritis (not really a diagnosis as much as its a medical ...

Fibromyalgia

DonsBon
  • By DonsBon · New reply September 3, 2008
  • 13 replies
  • Hi, everyone. I have had Fibromyalgia for at least 16 years, and sometimes the pain is so bad it's all I can do to get up and shower and brush my teeth. I do still work full time, tho, and on the weekends ...

It's only my opinion

deebelle
  • By deebelle · New reply September 1, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • There are lovely people writing poetry on the site, but I would rather have how they feel, how they deal with pain, what their life is about. I want to know about them, their soul, what they feel. I have ...

New To Chronic Pain - Why Don't Dr.'s Get It?

gracie62
  • By gracie62 · New reply August 2, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Hello - I am 42 y/o. Brief history - 1st heart stent age 39, 2nd age 40. 41 brought triple bypass 12/30/07 followed 18 days later by a heart attack caused by a blood clot in one of my new bypasses. I ...

Hello to Everyone!

JaidaMoon
  • By JaidaMoon · New reply July 21, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • Hi everyone in this group!! I see that no one has posted anything yet, so I decided I'd bite the bullet and be the first... So here goes! Living with chronic pain... what a phrase! Those four simple words ...

PAIN-Fibromyalgia

Glenda-C
  • By Glenda-C · New reply June 19, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia about 8-9 years ago . The muscle pain is dreadfull. Every place that is touched is so painfull when an exam is preformed by any of my doctor's. I get real upset though ...

Just wondering......

janet54
  • By janet54 · Posted April 10, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi to all, I am new to this group and I have a question.I am 1 yr.lung cancer free.I had an upper right lobectomy.I still suffer terrible pain at the site.They did have to go through ribs to get it out.I ...

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