Pain, Pain, Go Away!

Dercum's Disease
#21

Suzann, Stonel, Ozziespamala,

Thank you so much for your kind words of encouragment, I sometimes can be way over sensative and get emotional. Guess we all do at times. “Its all Good” as my kids say.

Linda, I do have a wonderful reflexologist, she is a massage therapist in my office, she works on me once a month or so. The other massage therapist is the one who introduced me to the foot spa.

I am very blessed to work in a office that I can access all these treatments for free. I don’t have to pay for anythings except the vitamins I take. I get adjustments, acupunture, massage therapy and all kinds of other treatments. I truely believe that is what keeps me going and able work. If I worked anywhere else I would have been let go a long time ago. I have been with my doc for seventeen years and she has always worked with me through having kids dealing with kid problems. And all the doctors , bankruptcy, no car, I could go on and on but I don’t want to bore you guys to death.

I am also blessed to be a part of this group and I love ALL of you and value all your opinions and appreciate (SPELLING??) ALL of you. I am have been having a very emotional time, Kid stuff not to mention DD stuff. It never seems to end. Which is another reason I love this group it gives me an escape if even for a few minutes.

God Bless you all I love You.
Brennie

#22

Has anyone else been taking or tried Neurontin…Thats what the Dr has me taking now instead of the Tramadol…So far it hasnt helped…

#23

Hi hon -

I took it for a few years, I didn’t think it helped for the pain, I think it helped a little with nerve damage. My doctor recently compared it to Lycria, said the two were the same, but that Lycria actually worked.

Calle//Carin in AZ

#24

Bless your heart Brennie. We will always be here for you.

I am on Gabapentin which is generic Neurontin. I was also briefly on Lyrica. The Lyrica made me sleepy all the time. The Gabapentin does also but I think all they can do for us is make us sleepy…so I am still on it. I think it helps to be a little loopy all the time so we don’t feel the true intensity of our pain.
Hugs to All, Grandma Sylvia

#25

I was taking neurontin for anxiety and pain a few years ago but it screwed me up so bad I had to quit taking it and when I found out what the side effects are I was really upset with my Dr for prescribing it to me . It causes alot of the same symptoms we already are suffering from and it must have something to do with the brain functions because it was originally prescribed to help with seizures …sooo I will not take anything that messes with my brain too much. Here is a link about it and they are involved in alot of lawsuits for injuring people or them becoming suicidal and killing themselves. Just thought you should know.

I always checkout all my meds before I start taking them even when Drs give them to us they are not always safe and drs are being pandered to by the manufacturers of these drugs. check out the naturalnews.com website about how the drs get fancy hotel trips and dinners gifts etc. to promote their drugs and one dr even turned them in for it but still prescribes drugs he knows are harmful to his patients. Please be aware of what the effects are of any drug or supplement is before you take it. http://injury.findlaw.com/neurontin/neurontin-overview.html

Love & Hugs
Davana

#26

That is so true about the doctors and drug companies. I used to work in a ortho clinic back when Viox was first on the market. The drug reps were there every week with lunch for the whole office and all kinds of free stuff and kissing up the to docs and they bought is hook line and sinker. And I don’t know if anyone remembers what that caused. Heart Attacks, strokes, bleeding ulcers and tons of other less serious side effects. It got taken off the market pretty quick thank God. But not before it killed a lot of people.

I agree with you Davana, Always check the drugs out first. I take so many I have to check them out to make sure there are no interactions. I see different doctors and they all have a list of my meds but they are human and don’t always pay attention. I have been burned before and I sure don’t want anyone elso to go through that kind ordeal.

God Bless all,
Brennie