Debilitating pains mid 60s adult.

[seastreak]

Hi I'm suffering for years with neck shoulder back pain .it's nerve and mechanical pain and I take 90mg. Cymbalta and 600brufen and occasionally anxicam when I can't sleep. Myself and my wife look after our profoundly disabled 29 yrs. Old Daughter and it's difficult and tiring.

I'm looking for people who have similar pain issues who may have had some good meds that they feel made an improvement in their mechanical and neuropathy pain. Opioid meds help a little but side affect unhelpful.

Thanks 🙏.

[neena-beena]

Have you seen a physiotherapist or a specialist pain clinic wrt the pain issue? They may have drug-free ways of helping with the pain.

When I was caring for my terminally-ill mother, my GP recommended a physiotherapist consult which resulted in my purchasing a TENS machine at very affordable cost. It helped me greatly with my recurrent nerve pain (shingles related). Use of the TENS machine gave me temporary (for a couple of hours, not mere minutes) relief with no side-effects whatsoever, unlike the prescribed drugs which, at an effective dose for prolonged pain relief, had unacceptable side-effects.

Hope this helps you or someone else.

[seastreak]

Hi neena,Thanks for your advice I am. Currently waiting for an appointment I am currently on priority list for pain specialist waiting now 6 months and expect to be waiting for probably another year 😔 I paid lots of money which isn't easy for physio and rheumatoid consultant.......waste of time no success but I live in hope and will keep trying to get better.

Very best wishes

Seastreak.

[neena-beena in reply to seastreak]

Most people - but not all, of course - can use a TENS machine safely. Obviously you must find out from your GP, or from a qualified pharmacist, whether there is any reason for you to NOT use a TENS machine, and a pharmacist or physiotherapist would be able to give you some advice on using it (and what sort to buy). I don't know where in the world you are, but here in the UK they are not at all expensive to buy.