I need help with my pain?

Dear Vanilla_2448036:
I have had a long history of neuromuscular pain, I have had polio and this past winter we had a terrible snow and Ice storm I had to be out and I caught a fall that further damaged vertebraes and disc in my back and neck regions, I see a doctor who specialies in Chronic pain, throughout time I have taken various medications some have helped, others I had side effects that were extreme enough until I was unable to tolerate them. the medications you mention are usually given for short acting pain, lots of the pain specialists usually prescribe a medicine that is of longer acting (8 to 12 hours) so that your body has medication on board to treat pain that is not short in duration.

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then they usually prescribe what is called breakthrough pain medication to be taken inbetween your long acting medicines to cope with flare-ups, I take a drug called Opana 40mg 1 every 8 hours then hydrocodone (Norco) 10/325 that can be used inbetween doses of long acting pain medicine. there is also Fentanyl patches they are placed on your arm or a surface and adhere and the body absorbs medication from the patch and usually is changed every 3 days, there is also MS Contin which is a morphine type drug, Oxycontin, also Dilaudid which is hydromorphone (it is a shorter acting narcotic but for some is quite effectibe) some doctor's use medications such as Neurontin, Pristiq are some of the drugs commonly used for depression but in some people these drugs work very well not due to depression but it works to help the body cope with the pain, some doctors even use one or more of these things in combination, Also prescription and OTC doses of Ibuprofen and Naprosyn are sometimes used because they also help especially with neuromuscular type pain, and as you were told they can even implant what I believe (if I recall correctly a neurotransmitor) which delivers pain medication but I believe it has to be implanted, At least in the state that I live in most of the Pain management doctors prefer to try the long acting drugs to see how you react and then that is always an option. It is my sincere hope that you achieve the pain relief that you need, there are many talented, caring compassionate people who are on this site, stick around maybe you will find others who also can give you other valuable advice, I just want you to be the best you can be abd achieve the appropriate pain control that you need to function.