My legs hurt so bad I don't know which side to limp on

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I think I'll just take a double dose of painkillers and get stoned out of my mind. That MAY do the trick, at least until morning.

Whatever you do, don't get arthritis. It's a pain in the arse-- among other places.

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. You sound like me the other day

My back was killing me, and no matter what I did, it wouldn't let up. Not arthritis, degenerative spine along with a whole host of other problems. Finally, after two muscle relaxers (but not at once), and quite a bit of :smoke: I was able to sleep.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. You sound just like my sister

She's weird, tho'. She can pop pain pills all day and night and they won't have any effect on her. Right now she's on cancer lollipops and although they help her pain, they don't get her stoned at all. And they're EXTREMELY powerful!

Her lower back is incredibly messed up. She's hoping for surgery soon to correct it.

[Not_Giving_Up]

4. Normally the pain pills work

I have two different muscle relaxers...One that will take care of it most of the time, and one that will knock out an elephant. The problem is that I only have two of the good ones left, and no insurance. Once the OTC stuff is gone, it's back to Doan's and Advil for me.

I have a lumbar scoliosis, my whole spine is listed to the right, three degenerating disks, all sorts of fucked up muscles...and I'm only 33. It was a relief to know that I was crooked though...For years, I'd think a picture was straight, and it wasn't. The rear view mirror in my car is skewed to fit my off balance self, which drives my husband bonkers.

[Redstone]

7. They don't get her stoned because she needs them.

As you know, we Pain People are wired differently.

That's why we can take opioids and not get stoned, or addicted.

Redstone

[Redstone]

3. Getting stoned is good. Kills the pain. But the double dose may not

be advisable; what kind of painkillers are you talking about?

Arthritis: I've always found it hilarious when the TV commercials talk about "the minor pain of arthritis" when they're trying to sell Tylenol or some such crap.

1) If it's MINOR pain, you don't need any damn medicine! Just ignore it!

2) If it's NOT minor pain (and most arthritis pain is NOT minor), then Tylenol isn't going to do a damn thng for you. You need real drugs, dammit!

...so have your smoke, have your medicine, have a drink it that helps as well. Nobody should be in pain.

(PS: I understand the "which side to limp on" part. Last night, I had the shoulder, the knee, and the back all competing for attention. They were like a pack of little kids: "Me! No, pick me! I hurt worse than those other two!"

Feel better.

Redstone

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. I take Ultram (tramadol)

Great stuff, but asprin-based. Aggrivates the hell out of my tinnitis, and if I don't drink a lot of milk with them they'll punch a hole in my stomach.

I occasionally get a little smoke, and that helps a lot. But I don't get much, nor do I get it very often.

As a recovered alcoholic I can't drink, so that's out. :cry:

[Redstone]

6. I've used Tramadol, and found it ineffective. Didn't know it was related

to aspirin, though I should have, because it mad my ears rig as well.

Been through the whole cycle: Neurontin (zombie); Topamax (sick as a dog); Fentanyl patch (bad downside: the main side effect being that you just stop breathing, just like that, if you're unlucky or the patch gets ripped); Vioxx (hey, at least it didn't give me a heart attack); Lidoderm patch (having it glued on was more painful than the numbing effect); and it always comes back to what works: hydrocodone four times a day and a 25 mg Elavil at night, with Percocet for the occasional emergency.

I hope you find a better answer for yourself. None of us deserve to suffer.

Redstone

[Jamastiene]

8. I have sore gums on the bottom of my mouth

and one section on top. I got two fillings today. Usually my dentist is totally painless. This time though he had a hard time because my "strong" lips were in the way. He actually said that and couldn't seem to get over it.

I took some pain pills a few hours ago to stop the soreness. I'm mostly ok, but I feel like someone scraped my gums near an already sensitive tooth. It hoits.

I may load up a little more later, but for now, I can manage.

If you have arthritis, I do have a folk remedy that some people claim helps them.
Cayenne on the spot that hurts. Also, heating pad on that spot works too, from what I have been told. My aunt hurts all the time and says the heating pad works for her.

Is it getting ready to rain where you live? That causes "arthur" to rear his ugle head, ya know.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. I recently had three teeth pulled at once

I know how you feel, and then some.

I'd basically have to rub cayenne all over my body (the thought of which strangely intrigues me for some reason, btw.) :evilgrin:

I don't need a heating pad as I have a heated water bed. I can jump in any time I need to. I used to be far more sensitive to the weather- since my knee replacements and all the new arthritis drugs I've been on, that has diminished quite a bit. Just looked at a weather map- not a drop of rain in all of Texas.

[Redstone]

13. There's a real, verifiable reason why the capsaicin works.

It's not just folk medicine.

Redstone

[flordehinojos]

10. Ascriptin works for me.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. I Know The Feeling

Mine is from MS, not arthritis, but my recommendation is the same. Avoid MS! (Yeah, like i flirted with it, right?)

Bad part: Painkillers work by helping to block some synaptic interfaces from the source of pain to the brain. In my case, the pain isn't really in the legs! It's already in the brain. So, painkillers are useless. But, whachagonnadu!
The Professor

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Kind of stuck with it. Rheumatoid...but if I ignore it, it goes away.

This is what I tell myself. The funny thing is having my mother in law complain about osteo...She'll saying something completely inappropriate like,"Be grateful you're young and still have your knees..." :eyes: I haven't "had my knees" since 1996, but she doesn't get the practice of not complaining and thinks if you don't complain, you don't have troubles. :hi: Feel better.