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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
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Tramadol can be habit forming for some with a very difficult, lengthy withdrawal period.
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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.
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Hi Poppy,
The trigger point injections are either plain lidocaine or prolocaine with ketamine cream rubbed over the muscles.
It stops the spasming for about a week.
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