Recent content by Drummer76

That's horrible. Sounds like you have been through enough. I'm off the pain meds now but still have unbearable pain and well you guessed it,they don't care. They want me to use a medication that puts me at risk for another heart attack and I refused. It was pulled off the market once for...

It's good for it but some of us just can't use it anymore. I slept so much better using it

I'm currently on percocet 5mg from a rotator cuff surgery and it seems to be working less and less everyday. I am allowed 4 a day but have limited myself to 3 a day. It worked the first week I was on them,but after that, I really don't see a difference. The good thing this time around is I...

They do that here,especially if there was a really bad accident where the person injured is severally injured or has passed away. I used Marijuana in the past,but having a heart attack,it's not recommended by my cardiologist in any form since it constrict the blood vessels and could cause...

I don't think it is,but doctors are holding back to keep people from getting addicted to them,understandable,but why should those who do need them for a short period of time be thrown into that category? I don't want to be on them much longer by choice with or without pain. I'm ready to get off...

I did that since they had me taking 20mg of hydrocodone and it was making me sick. I told them I can't continue doing this and need something stronger. Well they have me 5mg of oxycodone which still isn't enough. I honestly done think the strongest lain medication would help this pain...

I'm 47 and I agree Pain meds are of no help,ice has been the only thing to help relive it some. I had 2 major things done. Rotator cuff teat fixed and bicep repair then some clean out work. I started physical therapy but it's very light and only 1 time a week per doctor's order. I won't go more...

I'm in severe pain. I had.rotator cuff surgery.on 1/23/24 also done some work on my bicep removed a bone spur and calcification in my shoulder. It's been extremely sore. I was given hydrocodone 10 MG and it wasn't working so they told me to take 20mg for 24 hours made me sick to my stomach...

I have to have shoulder surgery in the near future to remove calcium deposits in my shoulder. Just wondering how well pain medications worked after surgery. Right now I am on Norco 7.5mg and they worked for a few days and now they don't work at all. I am not normally on a pain medication and...

I’ve been trying to walk from like the bedroom to the kitchen 3-4 times or until I start feeling my back hurting. It’s a pretty sharp pain so I know when I have overdone it. I know I have to get back up and moving somehow more then I am now,it’s never good with fm to sit wall and do...

I haven’t read it but will. I have tried some lighter drumming and it was still to much on me. I never really beat on the drums like most drummers did and always took it easy because of my condition. What I meant about normal is my normal where I was a few months ago atleast or a little better...

Recently went to a pain dr again. Was diagnosed in 2006 with FM. I done physical therapy for the 20th time it seems but this time,the therapist I had said there has been zero change and that pt will not help me.It was hard doing pt,I was able to go 2x a week and laid up 2 days after each...

It’s really not the doctors that are controlling what is prescribed,it’s the government who created this problem. Hence my last post about the heroin overdoses being a huge thing now. As I stated,first responders with the exception of medics,never carried narcan and now it’s an everyday thing...

Another thing about opioids that most people overlook is rebound pain that they can cause. My pain level has actually been more manageable after getting off them and staying off them and letting it fully get out of my body. I still have pain,but it’s not as severe as it was when being on...

I don’t disagree that they help and very few can do what you are by not over using. That was my problem and I knew it was time to stop. Wish you all the best with this terrible health condition