Daily Pain Medication

General Medications
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Sure - I hope that it will work out. It took 2 months for the Doctor to get approval and to do his due diligence. Had to check with other doctors and make sure I am not a drug abuser, etc. So I will start a new thread after next week.

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Perfect! That will be really interesting.

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Hi Nic.Pat:

For me, it is the perfect a painkiller because it is the only drug that effectively and completely takes away the pain at the higher doses. I know it is not classified as a painkiller, but a corticosteriod. I am well acquainted with both risks and benefits. The distress of chronic pain and depression causes it's own damage over time. I think a lot of people forget that.



Nic.Pat said:

Hi mimiB,

Prednisone is a synthetic corticosteroid drug that is particularly effective as an immunosuppressant drug. It treats the disease and your bodies reaction to the disease but is NOT a pain killer. It can damage your body over time, so is not recommended for long term use.

Nciole



mimiB said:

I'm highly allergic to NSAIDs. I loved Aleve until it tried to kill me. Ditto for Ketoprophen. So I take Norco 7.5/325 tid. My PsA is not under control. It's probably the worse it has been. I'm still in moderate pain most of the time, and sometimes it is very severe. I work 20-30 hours a week now, and I would be completely unable to work or function without pain meds. The best pain med I have found is 40 mg of prednisone, but we won't go there. Y'all might be happy to know that I have weaned down to 8.5 mg per day and am shooting for 7.5 before my next doc appt in November. The goal is to get off of it completely, if and when I get some control on this monster. I am so ready for something to work.

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Hi I feel you here i don’t like taking medication coz of the way it makes me feel and look im on 400mg gabapentin 400mg ibuprofen and my methotrexate I take.but I do feel really high off it and I still have pain I’m a hairdresser and unable to work now because it floors me I’m permanently in agony most days I wish I wasn’t here also don’t help that I have depression.I’m going to my rhumatologist tomorrow hopefully they can help :frowning: