Nuepro patches for nerve pain.

[dailygrump40]

I was at my pain dr. appt yesterday letting them know how not so well the Mirapex was working. They were shocked !!! Not. Kinda expected to hear it was a bust. I did make a report of daily pain scales and where I was feeling the pain and that my sleep has greatly diminished.Then I asked about Nuepro and they did say if the Horizant doesn't get reinstated with the report that is getting sent to the insurance company then we will give Neupro a shot. The one thing that's giving me hopes about it working is it requires a pre-auth to get it. Just hope it works and isn't to much of a PIA to get the patches on. They did look to see if the medicine that's blended with Gabapentin in Horizant is available at all so I could try to combine them and to try and get good results from it and it's not. They only have 5 patients total on Horizant because of how hard it can be to get thru. I wish this insurance company knew my medicine failure history. Taking Lyrica and Horizant both should have given them some clue seeing how they both are relatively for the same thing. But Horizant is a better option(in my case) for RLS.

[Iona60]

Hope that you are able to get it all worked out.

[Kenu]

My wife has the same problem getting medication approved 🤬. The insurance company does not take the time to review your records on how many drugs you have tried and been on before they just denies it😣. I wish they would listen to what a specialist has prescribed and fill it! They are not doctors 🤬. Good Luck 👍🙏😉. Ken 🐾🐾

[itasara in reply to Kenu]

There is no doubt that the ins. companies care more about their profits than they do about the patient.

[Sukie427 in reply to itasara]

And this is why they need RNs or docs reviewing these claims, not bean counters.

[rjoneslaw]

hope u find relief

[Sukie427]

Sorry for the late reply, dailygrump40 . I've been away. I have neurogenic pain behind my left knee. It feels like someone is either holding an electric cattle prod that has been in a fire to it, or as if someone is cutting me with white hot razor blades. At first it would hit like a ton of bricks and I would fall immediately. At first they treated it with steroids, which did nothing, then Tegretol, which made me feel as if I were being slowly poisoned. I had been on Lyrica for years for migraine prevention, and the doctor finally decided to try gabapentin, which I had tried years ago for the migraines, didn't work, and I wasn't going to give up the Lyrica, which did. So finally they increased the Lyrica. I am very sensitive to meds, and of course Lyrica can break the bank, but I am now on 100 mg at night, 50 mg in the morning, 25 mg 4-6 hrs later, another 25 mg late afternoon. It does work, but not all the time. Now I seem to have the pain all the time, especially when the back of the knee is touched by something, such as a chair, but it is considerably less. On the other hand, sometimes it comes on so strong that I scream and just fall. For example, I was at an airport waiting to return to the US, the pain hit me really hard out of nowhere, and I fell down immediately. My head fell backwards against a solid concrete stanchion and I gave myself a horrible concussion, so out of commission until Monday. I need to call the dr and either have him up the dose of Lyrica or maybe try some of the stuff you've tried. I get this crazy feeling that the pain "mutates" like a virus and overcomes whatever I throw at it. I also don't want to become zombified by too much Lyrica. Are there any side effects to Horizant or the patches?

[dailygrump40 in reply to Sukie427]

Horizant is a gabapentin enacarbil blend Common side effects if Horizant include:

sleepiness,

drowsiness,

dizziness,

loss of coordination, or.

blurred vision.

I haven't had a noticeable increase of any of my present issues except I can't believe how well it works.

[dailygrump40 in reply to Sukie427]

Horizant I take 1 600mg pill 2'xs a day for burning pain and Lyrica is 1 300mg pill 2'xs a day for pins and needles. I was taking 3600mgs a day of Gabapentin when ny pain Dr. introduced me to Horizant. That was 2 yrs ago.

[Sukie427]

Glad to hear that you're getting some relief. I'm going to check with my Dr about it. Might as well since I already have those issues anyway thanks to the MS.

[dailygrump40]

There's not many people on Horizant. Good Luck.