Any one else have chronic pain problems?

[bobthedrummer]

I usually don't complain, it must be the cold weather again.
I've got spondylothesis @ L-3, herniated disc @ C-7, fibromyalgia, small fiber neuropathy, l&R carpal tunnel and arthritis in hip.

Anyone else have chronic pain?

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Carpal tunnel

From drumming of course! :-)

[bobthedrummer]

4. It's all in the wrists

right?

[laruemtt]

2. hey, bobthedrummer,

sorry about your pain. i've got late stage chronic lyme and the cold weather really makes it worse. plus a couple of years ago i had to have an L5-S1 microdiscectomy - great surgeon and everything's great knock on wood. i force myself to work out almost every morning because it helps keep me flexible and strong. pain's a real bitch, ain't it?

do you take anything for it? any supplements?

[bobthedrummer]

6. Calcium citrate, Diclofenac 75mg

plus I've taken Vitamins B-complex and E for over twenty years.
I don't drink alcohol and avoid carbonated stuff.

[laruemtt]

8. for the fibro

(one of lyme's "perks" is fibro-type symptoms) i've been taking this stuff called NO2 (nitric oxide) that helps with oxgenation and blood flow to the brain. it's been a godsend in giving me energy. let me know if you want anymore info on this. am also taking something called secretamax, an hgh precursor, that really gets me going in the mornings. i know with your fibro you're probably fighting for energy too on top of the pain. sometimes it's hard to tell which is worse, isn't it.

[Bertha Venation]

3. Yes, but gawd, not that much.

Bless your heart. How do you move well enough to play?

I'm dying right now -- I let myself run out of electrodes for my TENS unit and my anti-inflammatory meds. :bonk:

edit: duh: osteoarthritis, worst in lower back facet joints, esp. L5-S1. Ow.

[bobthedrummer]

7. Music is really all I can do now-I've got a few years left

I've come close to my goal of being a studio musician.
Plus my wife plays bass!
We are "The Books Banned":hi:

[BootinUp]

5. just occasional

I got the spondylothesis thing. In my case I can usually get it under control with either tylenol or vioxx. I'm sorry you are having this tough time. Hope you can find some relief.

[rasputin1952]

9. A chronic pain thread, interesting...

I have C3-4 osteoarthritis. I take Vioxx & occasionally diazepam when my muscles get in an uproar. Carpal Tunnel l&r, mis-fused r clavicle from a bike accident when I was a kid. Bilateral knee osteoarthritis.

the C3-4 arthritis is creating a spur that may eventually really screw me up someday.

last week, I went out to salt the steps and slipped. Went down stairs and really screwed up lumbar and sacral spine. No bruise at first. My son noticed it when I was sitting at the computer, it is huge, 7" laterally, 5.5" vertically. For a couple of days, that was a problem; what bothers me, is that there may be future ramifications from that fall in the future.

O8)

[bobthedrummer]

10. I took a header off the steps last winter

that really helped my pain a lot too.
We are thinking about moving to a warmer climate.
But not Texas, Florida or California.

[camero]

11. Compression in my neck in 3 different vertebre

from an auto accident 5 years ago. It gets bad on chilly and damp days but ibuprofen seems to work. Wasn't always like that. Had to whittle mmy dose down myself.

Took hydracodone at first.

[OneBlueSky]

12. oh, yeah . . . 24/7 . . .

a condition called "cauda equine syndrome" . . . permanent nerve damage "neuropathic" pain caused by a herniated disk that impinged on a nerve bundle off the spinal cord called the "cauda equina" . . . Latin for "horse's tail," which it apparently resembles . . . pain meds make it most days liveable, but there are times (e.g. drastic barometric changes) when the pain hits a 10 and nothing can turn it off . . . generally goes on for 24 hours or more, during which time I am absolutely useless . . . no fun . . . but I keep reminding myself that there are people a whole lot worse off than me . . . so I deal with it . . .