Pain medicine

Arcoxia is a cox-2 and easier on the GI track. My GI gave me Celebrex, also cox-2. The other goto was Tylenol-III, which does have codeine.

For joint pain and stiffness or sore muscles I take Celebrex, and on the occasion where I have some cramping, I take the T=III, usually just 1/2 tablet.

Best choice is to tackle your flare as fast as possible.

Tylenol with Codeine #3 is a stronger pain reliever than plain old Tylenol. It's contains a low level of a narcotic, codeine, so there's always an addictive element possible. I believe the amounts are small enough that it's not a huge concern. It's a stronger pain reliever as codeine turns into morphine within your body.

Generally all NSAIDs are a no, no for us. Although I do hear of some of us using them for pain management. Just be careful down that route as well since they can worsen UC symptoms.

Sulfasalazine helps with mild aches and pains and can be taken as an alternative to mesalamine.

I cant use codeine, have been on Celebrex for a bit with repetative strain injury before having physio. Helped, and had no effect UC-wise.
I usually use the Costco version back relief...same as Robaxacet plus some Robaxin. Takes the edge off, but not total relief.

Some talke Cymbalta antidepressant that offers joint pain relief..I considered it, but don't want to change from Effexor. Sulfasalazine for Ucers is another option for oral mesalamine....there are a few here who use it with success.

Plaquinol is used for inflammatory arthritis and muscle Fibro....another option is LDN. I have tried serrapepidase and NAC....don't use it now tho.

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Cymbalta (antidepressant) is advertised to help with body pain....for some with depression, it has helped. I know someone who uses it for trigeminal neuralgia.
Lyrica is used for nerve pain....as is gabapentin.

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Garthy said...
I have some Arcoxia at home, do you take Omeprazole as protection?

They are really clamping down on codeine at the moment, although you can still buy over the counter in the UK at the moment. Its hard for us IBD peeps. My GP always wants to give me amitriptyline which helps me sleep but not much else.

No you can't :/

Unless you mean co-codamol, but the OTC stuff only has low-dose codeine. Anything higher requires a doctor's prescription.

I had to lol a little bit at amitriptyline. What is it with GPs being so obsessed with that stuff? It's absolutely useless for IBD pain, although it does help with sleep like you said (albeit leaving me pretty groggy for a few hours after waking).

garthy said...
Trouble is I don't have inflammatory arthritis. I've got ddd in l4 and l5. Also have s1 nerve compression. I also have some weird neuropathy and fasciculation, could be the discs of course. I also wondered about cramp fasciculation syndrome. Is Cymbalta actually proven to help pain? Others I thought of were gabapentinoids although latest research isn't good. I'm still waiting for reduction in Azathioprine to see if that helps , I had over therapeutic levels.

It helped with my nerve pain, but it wasn't that bad to begin with. Something more severe, I don't know. The only way to find out is to try it and see. I started Cymbalta at 60mg, which was pretty brutal, so you may want to go in lower at 30mg.

I used to pop tylenol extra strength up to the max dose per day when I was flaring bad.

Recently, I read about a study where tylenol supposedly dulls the senses.

I fear it has done the damage as I no longer have emotions.

Can you find a link to that study? I'm curious and would like to know more.

quincy said...
Emotions such as what?
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Literally no emotions, period. Never really get happy, angry, or sad any more.