Pain & Pain Management - March 2007

The doctor seems to think that 3 weeks healing time is enough. It took me 12 weeks for my right arm to heal from the same surgery. How can I get the doctor to keep me out of work long enough for my other arm to heal? I think I will need a full 12 weeks just like the other one. I go to see him tomorrow. Any suggestions???

2007-03-12 12:09:10 · 2 answers · asked by Kitkat 1

2007-03-12 10:54:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2007-03-12 10:41:54 · 13 answers · asked by Sexy Red 4

I took them for back pain, but now I have a headache and feel sick, it can only be the tablets that would have caused this

2007-03-12 10:28:37 · 4 answers · asked by xXx Orange Breezer xXx 5

2007-03-12 10:25:26 · 3 answers · asked by thelovebug 2

I am depressed and in chronic sever pain. I don't get in to the dr until Wed. - pain management. Right now I feel like the best way to ensure rest is to add in an old painkiller to my current one, take a few unisom, and ambien and a dozen mg of ativan. That's what I've just done and I am not asleep. Please advise.Please

2007-03-12 10:19:56 · 3 answers · asked by Lisa 3

My ear still hurts after a week which i know is normal but now my jaw hurts and aches on the side i had my ear pierced. Hope it's just coincidence but was wondering if this has happened to anyone else? It's not infected and i use ear care lotion on it and stuff. Is it worth going to see a doctor?

2007-03-12 09:52:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-12 09:03:10 · 6 answers · asked by doug m 1

2007-03-12 09:02:27 · 9 answers · asked by doug m 1

I've been prescribed some by my doctor, who told me to take two because I'm a big guy. I've never taken them before. How powerful are they?

2007-03-12 08:33:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-12 07:35:12 · 12 answers · asked by suz 2

2007-03-12 07:16:37 · 4 answers · asked by b_doss75 2

Since last thursday i have had headaches everyday and ibuprofen isnt working.... its not even that bad but a little pain involved.... (not a migraine...) I am on my period right now but i have never had headaches before or during my time.... what could this be and how to stop it?

2007-03-12 06:54:27 · 8 answers · asked by MrsJLH 1

My right hand especially tomb, also right arm's lower part feel pain and unpleasant tierdness constantly... We had bowling yesterday, but we have it very often and I never had such pain awter that. I feel like some nerve is hurt and that is the reason. But I didn't hurt my hand yesterday.
Is it because of bowling or is it something more serious?

2007-03-12 06:28:58 · 2 answers · asked by Bella 4

you are emotionally hurt and do u feel headache?

2007-03-12 05:27:45 · 7 answers · asked by ? 2

what is best cure for headache?

2007-03-12 05:26:04 · 14 answers · asked by ? 2

I dont know why but my right butt muscle hurts so bad I have a hard time walking....I am 38 yo,no health issues(yet). I did pinch a buldging sciatic nerve on that side about 21/2 mos ago but I thought that was over. Could this be related to this? It feels like it is very deep into the muscle.

2007-03-12 04:51:28 · 14 answers · asked by Misti 3

2007-03-12 04:05:15 · 2 answers · asked by Gucci 2

I wudent saw a headache . Its presure My the side off both eyes . thier feel sore underneth . Pain at the back off the neck . Sometimes sensations in the back off the head . Some times pain on forhead going across the bottom . SickNess & And Chills / Rushs Up back and head .. it been about . 2 weeks now . it only used to really happenin at night but for the past 5 6 days its been all the time nearly

2007-03-12 03:58:26 · 15 answers · asked by Katie W 1

I'm starting to look into massage therapy for a stiff neck. I pulled a neck muscle about a month ago, and the muscle seems to be healing, but because I didn't start range of motion movements soon enough, my neck became very stiff, and often painful to move.

I was wondering how much one typical session would cost, and how often I should go. I know that it will all depend on the therapist and what he/she suggests, but I'm just looking for ballpark figures here so I know what to expect.

Also, I haven't been to see a doctor about it since the pulled neck muscle originally happened. I decided the copay wasn't worth hearing, "you have a stiff neck, see a chiropractor." Would the therapist first suggest getting an MRI or anything to make sure that nothing is seriouslly wrong with any bones? I don't think that is the case, but I'm new to this whole thing.

Thank you!

2007-03-12 02:06:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems that if someone is so far into denial that they'll claim to NOT be addicted to opiates after having taken them for many years, then they should be taken off them for at least a short while, so they'll be forced to go through serious withdrawals and understand that they actually ARE addicted. It's like saying that someone with a never ending supply of heroin who has been taking it everyday for five years isn't an addict because they actually wanted to take it every day.

2007-03-12 01:58:57 · 12 answers · asked by Confused 1

ok, so the last two days i've been having chest pains, no other symtons, and they have been coming and going! Ive been under ALOT of stress!! could this be the cause!?!? Its not really bad pain! from a 1-10 its probably like a 4. its just got me a little worried!

2007-03-12 01:30:38 · 5 answers · asked by nyki 1

My mum has suffered with severe back pain now for a few weeks, it seems to be in her back, side, arms, and also her little fingers and arm go numb, we have thought that maybe it was a slipped disk, but the pain is only severe in the night and not during the day, once she has woken and taken some pills the pain seems to cease and comes back when she is in bed, what could it be, she says the pain is so bad she could slit her throat. Please help.

2007-03-12 01:05:18 · 13 answers · asked by tamirra c 2

I have headache's 4-5 days every week,we went through mri's,etc,no known cause,but my question is,can I take Ibuprofen if I'm allergic to asprin? I take way to much tylenol (9-15 tabs)everyday that I do have a headache because that's just how much until it lets up alittle and when I have 5 headaches that week,well,kind of scary,and I probably have no liver left.

2007-03-12 00:59:35 · 7 answers · asked by grmat 4

As more and more people become unwittingly hooked for life on opiates, do you think more and more lawsuits will be filed against these legal drug dealers? Most people don't fully recognize the extent of the problem until for some reason they are no longer prescribed this form of legal heroin....their doctor retires, change in office policy stopping gratuitous prescrbing of drugs,etc... I know a woman in her fifties who until five years ago had never taken anything stronger than an aspirin in her entire life ( not including alcohol) until she was put on vicodin for a disc problem. Within a few months her body adjusted and she needed more...then the vicodin no longer killed the pain so the good old doctor upped it to percocet. This repeated itself until a couple years later she was being prescribed 3 40 mg. oxycontin a day. Long story short, she's almost 60 with a full blown addiction to opiates, with no script, she spends her enitre SS check buying off the street! SUE 'EM, I say!!!

2007-03-12 00:05:10 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have had this pain in my jaw and left ear for several months now. The pain in my ear can be so severe that I have to use heat and just lay down to get rid of it.
I have had sinusitus 3 times this year and my GP has switched me from zyrtec to claritan. I had pneumonia last month and the tightness in my chest has not seemed to go away since then.
My GP keeps telling me that he can find nothing wrong with the left ear but I know there is something wrong as the ear seems to feel like it is full and is draining alot of ear wax.
I don't smoke so I know that is not a factor.

2007-03-12 00:02:35 · 8 answers · asked by Grace S 3

If you are an oxycontin patient, unless your doctor is one of those who will prescibe it for anything from a hang nail to a leg cramp, you have hoodwinked your doctor into believing that you absolutely, positively cannot make it through the say without the aid of a heavy narcotic. (a reality number) So the fact that you are on it, long term, means you are addicted to it. You can blab on and on, all you want, about how you are DEPENDENT...not ADDICTED...but once you are dependent, you are addicted, once you are addicted, you are dependent...DUH?!?! So why can't you just admit it, you're an addict...a junky...it's no big deal really, I mean, nobody FORCED it on you , you asked for it! Of course, someday you'll have to get off it, and THEN you'll see how badly addicted you are, until then....you're living in fantasy land if you think you are'nt a junky.....because you ARE....a junky. I always denied it to...denial isn't just for alcoholics ya know... but once you admit it, u can quit

2007-03-11 23:36:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

is there any cure if shoulder bone is dislocated without any surgery. how to avoid it frm happening again.

2007-03-11 23:34:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

how is heart pain and all pains around upper left side of ribcage are related to heart?
how to diagnose heart pain from other pains?

2007-03-11 23:19:48 · 4 answers · asked by mehrdad 1

I have not had family doc but have had been seeing pain dr and she is retired now and i have no dr every dr i see says no way they cant help i have 2 many medical problems I think they just don't whta the work or 2 give pain meds for i hurt daily think about it if u fell daily 4-5 x a day and ur body banged off everything and u would hit the floor hard no 1 2 help u i can't live with this pain and daily seizures. I live in Oshawa onatrio but will travel up 2 1-2 hours 4 a doctor is there some1 who can maybe please help me i have tried 56 new dr's and alll say no case to much work!

2007-03-11 23:09:16 · 3 answers · asked by Miranda (jenilamb@rogers.com) 1