Hi
@Bud22 , and welcome to the forum.
My first suggestion is, if what you are taking is not helping with the pain, stop taking it!!
Why take drugs that are not doing, for you, what they are supposed to do. If they are not working, then they are not doing you any good, and because all medications carry risks and side effects, they may even be doing you harm. It is possible for a medication to make pain and many other symptoms worse.
Over what period of time has your pain increased?
Most medications are notoriously ineffective for people with fibro. There are some that only help some people, and you never know how any one individual with fibro will react to any given medication. It's always trial and error, and the errors are often not worth having given something a try. The ones that tend to work the most strongly are all addictive, such as opioids, and the best advice on those is just stay far away from them. They will very possibly only lead you into a whole lot more hurt than you already have.
Fortunately, you do not have to rely only on medication, and therefore doctors, to alleviate pain and other symptoms of fibromyalgia. There's no cure, and just as with drugs there's no one thing that helps everyone. but there are a lot of things you can do for yourself that will help you.
I wrote a post about this -- the post I wish I could have read when I was diagnosed years ago. If you are genuine about your desire to alleviate the symptoms of fibro, and willing to do what it takes to find out what works for you, you have a very high probability of having some success. Please read and start trying things, and by all means ask all the questions you want. We are here to help.
I am not a doctor or anything, just a person who has lived with fibromyalgia for several years now and has done a lot of research and trial and error experimentation. What follows is just basics. There are a lot of variations. You will find your own versions of everything I say, as this is not a...
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