hurts sooo bad

injection after injection...the next is worse then the last...and still another month at least outta work...looks like I am here for a while...

Don't know, but anger management pisses me off.

I've had hip and back pain for 2 yrs aftr a fall and been to pain managgment for the past yr.... still not any better :( now I just went for another mri for my hip so hopefully they can figure it out! good luck to you, there's nothing worse than waking up in pain every day

worst is not waking up at all

I hear ya...I gotta lot gonna on with my back as well...I am sorry you are in pain for it surely sux..

TY, htere not sure if it's my back causing my hip pain or my hip causing my back pain... it's just a guessing game for them... the sad part is I'm getting use to the pain, it's normal for me. :(
what happened that your in pain?

Try doing it for over 30yrs...*shrug* You just do it...

that doesn't give me much hope :( that sucks... sorry :(

my doctor manages my pain very well with painkillers

It does take awhile for the injections to work...or at least make the pain a level that you can live with without narcotics. The injury did not occur overnight, so it takes awhile to let the corticosteroids take effect.

also depending on the issues associated with the pain...like the bulging discs, and the stenosis...those things have to be managed as well. what discs or back area that is affected has a lot to do with the treatments and the degree to which they help...

The deal is, for me anyway, that I have had to completely accept that I cannot do the things I used to do, I cannot be as active as I once was...life changed for me.

I used other treatments as well...now, with no insurance and no job, I can no longer afford any of those things...

Acupuncture can do wonders! Herbs and diet changes work for some people as well...

and a trained Professional Eastern or Medical Massage Therapist can do absolute wonders!!

Good Luck with your pain management...

it is difficult to live with chronic pain...you have to make some life changes..

I've tried muscle relaxers and all it did was put me to sleep lol.. I wish it were as easy bas taking a pill....

which means that during that time, you were out of enough pain to achieve sleep, which is very important to the healing process...

IMO, pain medications have a place in pain management, some kinds of pain...some kinds of injury...that is between the physician and the patient...

I do not use narcotics to control my pain, I do not want to be under the influence of them all the time...some people do fine on them.

muscle relaxants also have a place and a use...especially when it creates nerve pain, as nerve runs through muscle and when the muscle is having contractions/spasms, the nerve is then affected.

pain management is a very individual experience, and pain is a very subjective stimuli.

No, but I CAN tell you about how pain medicine makes you loopy!! So much so that you make typos. Gotta watch that!

lol, this is lengthy, but i think you will find it amusing.

About six years ago, one of our guitar players had to have surgery on his knee, for an old injury. After that, of course, came therapy..so he's going to therapy..and one day he's doing his "assisted" exercises..when he noticed the therapists name tag...blah blah "pain management specialist"

So, he says to the guy...

Pain management specialist?

The guy says "yep"

My friend said "well i just want you to know you're doing a damn fine job, because you're giving me a sh*tload of it right now..

that was cute Mark!!

Pain management is like Anger management...

a person really does not want to "manage" either of them, you want to get rid of them!!!

True!!!

For real! sweetie, i think most of us over forty begin to feel the every day ache's and pains..it is a difficult thing. I see so many younger people posting about older folks, and i think to myself..well if you only new what's in store...

All of those little injuries, add up as you get older. Much like watching your debit card, balance goes down..until you say..oh hell, what am i gonna do now? Those old injuries do add up..And, they can be quite expensive.

Mark, pass me some Codeine will ya???