Trying to get off oxycontin...I keep building a tolerance. I was wondering if there is a pain med that you don't build a tolerance to that could work as well? I have muscle pain and joint pain and on 15mg of oxycontin right now
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Tramadol??
I can't take any of that stuff. Not even Aleve or ibuprofen.
I take MSM, glucosamine, chondroitin, and curcumin for pain and inflammation. You really need to do SOMETHING for inflammation.
I hear it is a bear to get off of anything like oxycontin. Very sorry to hear that you are struggling with that.
Posted by GretaM (Member # 40917) on :
I use low dose naltrexone for muscle and fascia pain, higher dose Effexor for neuralgia and Vimovo twice daily for joint pain.
I get trigger point injections every two weeks for back pain-they do help.
Can you try those and see if you can ween off the oxy?
Posted by poppy (Member # 5355) on :
Trigger point injections of what?
Posted by Gratitude (Member # 31314) on :
Tramadol can be habit forming for some with a very difficult, lengthy withdrawal period.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by Gratitude: Tramadol can be habit forming for some with a very difficult, lengthy withdrawal period.
- I would say it's hard to get off of but would be a little better than oxycontin!
Jus' sayin'!
Not very effective, though.
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
I tried to use pain meds only for sleeping, and do other things during the day to get through. I figured out how to handle meds and worked with a doctor who understood what I was doing.
The way I did it was to find several I could tolerate, I think four meds, then rotate them on a nightly basis so none built up to a high level. Thus I only took each med 2x/week, with a rotation like that.
When any of them got up too high in amount, I dropped it out for awhile. So sometimes I was rotating three. This protocol worked for me. This is what I was doing prior to finding out I had Lyme.
Posted by GretaM (Member # 40917) on :
Hi Poppy,
The trigger point injections are either plain lidocaine or prolocaine with ketamine cream rubbed over the muscles.