In 2003 after rotator cuff sugery I was diagnosed with RSD. In June of last year had a spinal fusion T10 thru S1, rodding 46 screws and 4 anchors into my pelvis and hips.. still in tremendous pain 24/7. Also had broken my shoulder before surgery - leg gave out. I had surgery in Jan. screws and a plate. Anyway, neither is healing.. in fact getting worse. Now hands and ankle on left leg - which has extensive nerve damage - swell up and hurt like hell. I truly believe my RSD has returned..but can't seem to get my dr. to commit.
Anyway, I take 3200 mg of gabapentin, 30mg oxycontin er, baclofen 40mg
cymbalta 120 mg, ambien 10 mg, klonipin 3 mg.. but nothing seems to work? ANY help would be appreciated.. thanks so much
RSD, best drugs?
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- 26 May 2013 by Lilredhd1962
- Updated
- 30 May 2013
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- oxycontin, pain, reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, back pain, hydromorphone, chronic pain, surgery, spinal fusion
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Mylifemyprobs
27 May 2013
Hi there, I've also had a spinal fusion from S1 to L5 no where near your conditions but i am 24 years old and on lortab 10mg 3xs daily ambien klonipian 1mg 2xs daily and also requip for restless leg but this medicine relaxes me all over and helps with the pain and will also make me sleep very well. Maybe consider asking your dr for a prescription for requip. It may give u a little bit of relief. Or also essgic plus it's for chronic migraines but also treats common chronic pain it's caffeine/butabitial/acetamaphine they come in doses of 40/325/50 or 40/500/50 the 40mg being caffeine & 325 & 500 acetamaphine and the 50 is the butabitial which is a barbiturate they work great also I take them 2xs daily. I hope this helps if u have anymore questions I will be glad to try and help ya get some answers
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Thank you for your answer. I forgot to mention I already take Klonipin 1 mg 3x daily and also ambien to sleep. I have to completely knock myself out to sleep but still wake up at 2 or 3 am in extreme pain. You are so young, I wish yo well!
Also, I have taken Fiornal/with codene and that does help with migraines but now I take imitrex.. which doesn't seem to be working very well. I might ask my dr for the fiornal again! Again Thank you!
I have taken imitrex also & it didn't help with my migraines at all, made me feel like I was having a heart attack in fact. The dr prescribed them to me, I took 2 & I said no way because I honestly felt as if I was having a heart attack. & thank you the dr told me that my back trouble was hereditary because not that I recall doing anything to harm my back, but my dad has had several back surgeries & the dr said back trouble is inherited from the fathers side. I have a 2 year old also & it makes it hard I'm just hoping to soon have all my back trouble fixed & not have this constant pain daily I'm too young & so sick of not being able to sleep because of it or in the mornings it's so hard to get up out of bed can't bend over etc its very tiring to deal with it daily.
Concernng the imitrex.. when it first came out it was only in self injection form. I used that for many many years, and YES, I felt like my heart was going to explode.. but back then it did work.. but not anymore. I'm sorry to hear about you're restless leg syndrome.. that was to be miserable.
I wake up in so much pain, usually only get 4-5 hours of sleep.. My pain makes me bolt out of bed... or actually roll out of bed because I can't move!!
Thanks for your input!!! Diane