Non tylenol pain meds? What do you take?

Why are narcotics a bad solution? There are plenty of people on here including myself whom use narcotic pain meds daily. Don't let the media bias against pain meds make you suffer when there are many meds that could help you. There are medications like ultram that could help you that are not quite as strong as lortab or perc. Are you strictly looking for it for your head aches or for your crohn's pain too? If it is for a migraine headache, there are certain times where I have been cleared to take excedrin Migraine. Normally you do not want to take anything with an NSAID but it was the only thing that worked for my chronic migraines. I tried topomax and midrin with no luck but the excedrin migraine actually worked so my G.I. approved it for migraines only. For the stress pain, the muscle relaxers at night will help with the jaw muscles and I use massage therapy when I can afford it.
I just want to emphasize that if you have a chronic pain condition, it is ok to take the proper medication. I take up to 3 lortab 10s each day and it does not get me high but helps take my pain down to a functioning level. For way too long I suffered and cowboyed up because of the way that I thought people would think of me. The stigma that is given to narcotic pain meds due to those that abuse them is not right and really hurt those of us that actually consider them a blessing.

My sister uses amitriptolene (sp?) daily to ward off migraines as was prescribed by her neuro. It is a low dosage of the med, used for migraines. I have a night guard to help with the grinding and I agree regualr tylenol can't really touich the migraines sometimes- I admit I sometimes use advil because my migraines are so bad... even though it is against GI advice. As for over the counter pain meds, my sister swears by something called "anacin." I never tried it and I am not sure what the make-up of the drug is. Maybe you can google it.

Best of luck

B

Have you considered going to a pain clinic? They will not only help you manage the pain correctly, but also make sure that you are not abusing the medication. Some doctors really are afraid to prescribe pain meds due to the legal risks. My G.I. does not prescribe pain meds but is in full support of my primary care doc who does.This is pretty typical as most on here get their pain meds from their primary care or a pain clinic. My G.I. does prescribe antispasmotic meds that do help a little bit with the Crohn's pain but will not do the job on their own.

I get some pretty bad tension headaches from a stressful work enviroment. I take small dose of alprazolam or ice the back of my neck to relieve the pain. It could be an anxiety issue so you should see you family dr.