Thanks everyone for the warm wishes!! Sadly a bit of my regular pain has come back recently. Oh well. Dixie, you're totally right. My family is celebrating my "cure" but I suspect this is going to be...
Hello BT! I actually teared up at your post a little bit. That is EXACTLY how it happened to me - I'd had sex with my partner and a little bit later, I started having extreme cramping pain. I too had...
You could definitely ask your pain management doctor for it. Both my PCP and my PM have administered it, though my PCP is ultimately the one that prescribed it. It's non-narcotic so I've never had a...
Dixie - Whenever I'd go to the ER for pain, in addition to dilaudid, they'd give me the "headache cocktail" for the inevitable rebound migraine I'd get - IV toradol, metoclompramide (Reglan) and...
I'm on generic morphine sulfate 15mg tablets, one pill twice a day. If I'm in a lot of pain, sometimes I'll take both at once in the morning and skip my nighttime dose. For breakthrough pain, I have...
I'm not on disability but may be going on it soon, but one of my sources of income is art. When I'm well enough, I do art - mostly tattoo commissions - and that's not bad. Usually $50 a pop, every...
Thank you so much, Backtolife! :)...
Gabapentin, 800mgs x3 a day, was an awful experience for me. I didn't have the dizziness or sleepiness issues that you guys are reporting (which my doctor found odd too), but I had AWFUL panic...
Hi all! I had so many wonderful, loving responses to my "omg I'm having surgery, help" post so I thought I'd update you so y'all didn't think I'd died or something. My surgery was delayed by eight...
Wow, thanks everyone! This is some great advice. I've made pre-surgery appointments with my PCP and pain management doctor just now. I'll be sure to walk as much as tolerated but otherwise I'll take...
It's been a flurry of activity these last few weeks. I went from meeting with a pelvic pain specialist to having surgery booked next week. I'm heading into the OR on the 21st, barring any setbacks....
I don't know how useful this response will be, but I slipped down the stairs when I was nine and smacked my shin into the wall. My leg didn't break, but it left the tiniest little divot in the shin....
Thank you all for the warm responses! I've been trying to reach out into chronic pain/illness communities more to learn more coping mechanisms and whatnot, and I already feel so welcome. :)...
Hello forum! I'm new around here, 19yrs old and dealing with SEVERE pelvic pain. We're talking crippling pain that makes me faint, pain I can't survive with, pain that just won't quit - coupled with...
Hello, I always get terrible rebound headaches when I need to use my dilaudid. To combat those, I was given a prescription for ketorolac (Toradol), and I take one of those with two benadryl and boom,...
Hello, I was recently told by a pharmacist at CVS that Walgreens and CVS draw from the same warehouses, meaning if one is out of a particular drug, the other will likely be, too. He also went on to...