Chronic pain - I'm wrecked.

[Lili]

Any sort of relaxation will help with chronic pain. Even learning to breathe correctly will help.

 

[ollie989898]

People with chronic muscoskeletal pain might be worth trying antidepressants- a number of these drugs have a side effect of relaxing your muscles.

Alcohol and other recreational drugs such as cannabis have long been known to offer relief from pain but can be habit forming or addictive. I understand the NHS is exploring options for prescribing cannabis but will likely be in pill form and vastly different from anything you can obtain through the usual circumstances.

Opioids or barbiturates are known to cause dependency and the body rapidly develops tolerance to them.

All a misery chronic pain, anyone with it has my utmost sympathy.

I assure you that very few GPs would ever believe people were malingerers. They are trained to listen. It may be worth trying a minor injuries unit if you get in a bad way with pain.

 

[MissSteak]

Please contact me on my email .......i would like to chat and swap pain dayss, you are not alone, [email protected]

I am happy to chat on here, on the open forum.

 

[MissSteak]

I prefer chatting on the open forum where our chat can help others who are perhaps not brave enough to speak up. My own story is a success in that I'm off the pain relief and am now stiff from old age as much as anything else. It has been a long journey and I had a lot of support.

It sounds like you have pain issues, I do hope you feel much better soon.

Thank you Dartmoor ewe. I am now taking pregabalin, and if it is helping. I am more mobile and have been able to move more and lose weight which is apparently the polar opposite of most people's weight gain experience.

 

[MissSteak]

Watch out with fibromyalgia diagnosis's as they are sometimes as easy option for GP

Hey JD3650, can you elaborate? MS and Lymes have been mentioned but no tests. As my post above I am feeling a bit more like my old self nowadays thanks to new meds. Its not ideal, but it's a start.

 

[MissSteak]

I have no idea if it's any good, but there is an app called Curable which can help with pain perception. I downloaded it as I was aching all over and then realised I'd been doing some therapy and dealing with serious issues and my body was doing this in response. I keep meaning to have a go and see what it is like

Oh thank you very much for this tip, I'll make some space on my phone and give it a go. I've tried hard with CBT to accept my pain, but it isn't easy is it. We can only do our best.

 

[MissSteak]

Any sort of relaxation will help with chronic pain. Even learning to breathe correctly will help.

Do you mean deep breaths? I think my style of breathing is level 1 - survival. So you're right, I could improve my deep breathing.

 

[MissSteak]

People with chronic muscoskeletal pain might be worth trying antidepressants- a number of these drugs have a side effect of relaxing your muscles.

Alcohol and other recreational drugs such as cannabis have long been known to offer relief from pain but can be habit forming or addictive. I understand the NHS is exploring options for prescribing cannabis but will likely be in pill form and vastly different from anything you can obtain through the usual circumstances.

Opioids or barbiturates are known to cause dependency and the body rapidly develops tolerance to them.

All a misery chronic pain, anyone with it has my utmost sympathy.

I assure you that very few GPs would ever believe people were malingerers. They are trained to listen. It may be worth trying a minor injuries unit if you get in a bad way with pain.

Hello

I am on antidepressants for pain releif and as a coping mechanism. Although my doctor and I did discuss introducing another type of antidepressant to boost my brain when receiving pain signals.

I am curious to try cannabis. The NHS regulations are tighter than a ducks bum hole, so it will be a long time before it becomes a main stream treatment.

I have legal cannabis oil but it is vile, I struggle with it. It is about as palatable as silage effluent and an pub ashtray.

I am now on pregabalin, which seems to be helping my pain signals. I have been able to move more and lost weight, which goes against most peoples experience of the medication. Taken a whiley to get used to it, I've had some cognitive issues. Still on a low dose, so there is room to turbo boost them. A fabulous benefit of pregabin has been a stop to my migraines.

I don't drink much alcohol. Long gone are the YFC drinking days! I can normally be found drinking tea or elderflower cordial. Wild.

I have taken opiods for a long time, and I feel lucky I don't appear to have any addiction issues. I try and lay off them when, in the past I have had up to 240mg of codine per day for months.

I had a very beneficial occupational health referral through work with a nurse who was trained in my type of conditions. She gave me some tips regarding medication.

I find magnesium baths, and a muscle/back massager machine quite helpful too.

I don't feel as alone, or in despair as I did when I began this thread; and I am very grateful for you kind folks taking the time to reply.

 

[MissSteak]

People with chronic muscoskeletal pain might be worth trying antidepressants- a number of these drugs have a side effect of relaxing your muscles.

Alcohol and other recreational drugs such as cannabis have long been known to offer relief from pain but can be habit forming or addictive. I understand the NHS is exploring options for prescribing cannabis but will likely be in pill form and vastly different from anything you can obtain through the usual circumstances.

Opioids or barbiturates are known to cause dependency and the body rapidly develops tolerance to them.

All a misery chronic pain, anyone with it has my utmost sympathy.

I assure you that very few GPs would ever believe people were malingerers. They are trained to listen. It may be worth trying a minor injuries unit if you get in a bad way with pain.

You mentioned minor injuries unit, can you elaborate on this? I am not well versed on what these provide. Is it a mini A&E for patching folks up?

 

[ollie989898]

You mentioned minor injuries unit, can you elaborate on this? I am not well versed on what these provide. Is it a mini A&E for patching folks up?

An MIU is a minor injuries unit, it's a unit provided by some hospitals that is open as a drop-in service so people can have minor injuries or illnesses assessed by someone, sometimes a doctor but not always; often they are led by nurse practitioners.

I do not know what constitutes a minor injury, I think their policy is to treat anyone who walks in the door. Nurse practitioners at these places are able to do various procedures and prescribe drugs but bear in mind their facilities are often limited, there might be an X ray machine there, there might not but there is no CT scanner or resus team there, anything serious and they will send for an ambulance. This fact did not deter several notable (quite serious) cases that presented whilst I was on work experience, however.

 

[rick_vandal]

This is a disturbing thread. Pain is misunderstood, badly handled and poorly treated. In my case, I had overnight pain in the groin and upper leg (like PMR), developing to lower leg/shoulder/neck on the second day and luckily a GP cancellation appointment. Fast-tracked through Urology to TURBT but the original pain has disappeared! I am now pissing razor blades waiting for biopsy results with a completely different pain. There is something called a TENS machine, like a cattle prod for giving diversionary pain an order of magnitude below a Tasar, neither of which I have tried.