What works depends on what kind of pain you're experiencing, your tolerances and your own unique body chemistry. I've had lots of different kinds of pain over the years, and have tried all sorts of remedies.
Hip pain can be from a bursa or the spine. If the hurts to touch it's likely an inflamed bursa. Steroid injection is worth trying, doesn't hurt much at all.
Pinched nerves in spine - various injections. Epidurals used to work, but now I get facet joint injections and nerve ablations. Ablations have lasted more than a year for me. Caudal injections hurt awfully! I didn't get relief from those.
Fibromyalgia - tramadol - no nausea, but it makes me sensitive to anything else that causes rise in serotonin, have gotten serotonin syndrome from combining with Flexeril and other drugs.
Central cord syndrome, and central pain syndrome - nothing stops the burning in legs, feet, most of my body, not even a little! Joint and spine area nerve pain - tramadol and Norco help some, but not nearly enough as the condition worsens. "Nerve" meds (gabapentin, Lyrica, and a litany of others) don't help this pain at all
Muscle spasms and cramping - Since mine is from central cord damage, nothing helps much and nearly all just put me to sleep. Valium 2 mg (very low dose) helps prevent the spasms from jerking my whole body off the couch. It doesn't last very long though, and I need it in the hours just before dawn.
General oral pain meds - Morphine doesn't work on me, don't know why Dilaudid does, but oral isn't as effective as IV. Hydrocodone works best, but docs always script
minimal dose because tolerance will build.
All sorts of other meds can help depending on what's causing the pain. That's the trick - find the cause.
Post Edited (Alcie) : 11/1/2014 11:35:41 AM (GMT-6)