Not an Rx, but my chiropractor used a hand-held laser unit on me last week. I believe he said it was a high-intensity pulsed laser. He is trying out the unit and using it on his patients with intractible back pain.
I have a lot of low back pain from arthritis/joint degeneration/old injuries/muscle and connective tissue/nerve pain.
Nothing else seems to help much, but I don't take any Rx drugs for it--I prefer manual therapy, energy work, and joint supplements/natural anti-inflammatories.
Anyway, this laser treatment seemed to help quite a bit. I think I would have gotten longer relief, except that a few days later I went on a 3-day trip. Lots of time in the car, more walking and stair-climbing than usual, and one nearly sleepless night (in Seattle).
Take care, Nutmeg
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Have you tried Celebrex? I've been on it maybe a month now. I try to take it when the pain is too much to ignore.
I'd been having neck problems since the beginning of the year.-No known cause, such as trauma, over-doing it,"sleeping on it wrong", etc. The neck pain was causing shoulder muscle (trapezius) to go into spasm late in the day regardless of my level of physical activity that day.
Had gone for X-Rays, MRI, and consulted with an orthopedic surgeon. The surgeon suggeted a pain management specialist.
I had tried Tramadol/Ultram ER (pain-killer), Skelaxin,(muscle relaxant),Mobic,Nabumetone (NSAID's)....This, in addition to physical therapy,about 2 month's worth of 3x/week chiropractic visits.....
The only thing that put a "serious" dent in the pain was Celebrex.The Celebrex is not meant to be taken indefinitely, though, and comes with it's own set of cautions..
I do have some degenerated discs in my "cervical" spine(neck), but nothing highly unusual for my age(55). The pain management guy I'm seeing had performed some "facet point" injections, 3 each in my neck, on 2 different occasions. They are primarily diagnostic. Next course of action is a procedure called "RF ablation", where a "probe" is inserted at those injection locations,and heated by means of radio frequency.
The purpose of that is to destroy the nerve causing pain sensations. If the nerve can't transmit that signal, you wont feel the pain.(There are other nerves in the area-we just want to "hit" the one causing the problem)
Have you had, or do you intend to have any diagnostics done? If no,or undecided,you may want to see if your doc will give you a 1-2 week trial of the Celebrex.
I'm scheduled to have the ablation done tentatively next week. Hopefully,that will take care of the problem.As it is now, I take the Celebrex maybe three days out of the week. Maybe after next week I won't need to.
Here's more on that procedure by the way, and it can be performed in more than just the neck area.. http://tinyurl.com/krmsfp
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i actually tried celebrex and it is the one antiinflamitory I know I am allergic too.
I am assuming its the nerves or something in my spinal column that is inflamed. It is my entire spine top of neck down to bottoe of spine.
I use natural antiinflamitories but am still in a great deal of pain so was hoping to figure out something that would bring me some relief.
and doing anything aggravates it, I can't cook or do dishes even. It always hurts alot but doing even simple things makes it so much worse. I cooked tacos friday I am still worse from it. and it took days befor i could move my head much at all (my neck gets super stiff too)
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I get pain relief -- back and joints with 800 mg of ibuprophen. I make sure I take it with food. Usually that does it for me for the rest of the day until whenever -- it seems to take a couple of hours to kick in and then lasts -- the pain doesn't come back.
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I have a herniated disc in my lower back and degenerative disc disease there.
They gave me anti-inflammatories to use any time I get a flare up. They all work, but I can't take all of them due to allergic reactions.
Celebrex caused me hives. So, then they tried Naproxen. Got hives from that too. So, now I take Mobic. It comes in generic. It does the trick for me.
I used to have to take it all winter. Now I just take one any time I overdo things.
Those are the 3 to try.
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