Pegleg84
Active member
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2017
- Messages
- 82
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 05/2017
- Country
- CA
- State
- ON
Hi all,
Since I was diagnosed (and before), I've probably tried every OTC drug I can think of to help with my pain, and am amassing a real pile of useless drugs. The Cymbalta helps my pain most of the time, but when it's bad it's bad, and nothing else I've tried will help.
My counter is starting to look like a drug store, and most of it is useless:
- Ibuprophen (which used to be my go to. I had just bought a big bottle)
- Naxoprene (prescribed before my diagnosis. Anti-Inflamatories = useless)
- Acetaminophen (works on headaches, nada for the fibro pain)
- Tylenol 1 (with 8mg codein). We can get this over the counter in Canada, but it's still useless!
- methocarbamol (with Acetaminophen), helps eeever so slightly, but really, useless.
The only other thing I've taken that actually helped my pain was percocet, and I only took 1/2 of one at once. It knocked me out, but I would usually wake up with no pain. My Dr, understandably, doesn't want to prescribe opioids, but I might have to convince her after a while because nothing else has worked!
So, what's in your useless drug pile?
Since I was diagnosed (and before), I've probably tried every OTC drug I can think of to help with my pain, and am amassing a real pile of useless drugs. The Cymbalta helps my pain most of the time, but when it's bad it's bad, and nothing else I've tried will help.
My counter is starting to look like a drug store, and most of it is useless:
- Ibuprophen (which used to be my go to. I had just bought a big bottle)
- Naxoprene (prescribed before my diagnosis. Anti-Inflamatories = useless)
- Acetaminophen (works on headaches, nada for the fibro pain)
- Tylenol 1 (with 8mg codein). We can get this over the counter in Canada, but it's still useless!
- methocarbamol (with Acetaminophen), helps eeever so slightly, but really, useless.
The only other thing I've taken that actually helped my pain was percocet, and I only took 1/2 of one at once. It knocked me out, but I would usually wake up with no pain. My Dr, understandably, doesn't want to prescribe opioids, but I might have to convince her after a while because nothing else has worked!
So, what's in your useless drug pile?