Pain Meds just Don't Work the Same

[jmig]

For the past week I have been having pain in my neck, left upper back shoulder and arm. I think I bent something while doing barbell squats last week. The pain is only when I am sitting like at a computer, driving, etc and it moves.

I tried aspirin, Tylenol, and Aleve. Nothing helped.

Tonight I have tried the old fashion way. Three fingers of Glenlivet Scotch followed by two fingers of Jack Daniels Black....

Tomorrow I go to the doctor,

[harleyman]

The doc will say its a pulled trap mussle, offer mussle relaxers, and a steroid shot for instant relief..

Thats what mine did..Charged me 181 bucks , and sent me home..

Three weeks later I still could not move, sleep in my bed, nothing..

I had my first Chiropracter visit ever..One simple X-Ray, and the compressed disk was discovered...9 pounds of water bag weight pulling up on my neck and I was in heaven..instant relief from what ailed me for 2 months making my life misseriable...

So 20 sessoins later of decompression therapy and I'm good as new.

careful what the doc says..make him X-ray your spine there..

hope you get it fixed...

[Cloud9Gal]

John~ Hope your pain goes away sooner than later. Very easy to pull a muscle while weightlifting. Glad you are getting it checked. Let us know how it goes...
Take Care!

[Snuffy]

Are ya sure you're drinkin the right stuff ??? I'm use to drinking Glenfiddich Scotch .. guess I'll have to look your brand up. ;)

And don't mess around with pain in those areas ... those are all cardiac symptom areas .. Don't be surprised if perhaps the doc recommends a stress test.

As CloudGirlNine said ... keep up posted.

[tigisfat]

I had some spinal surgery go wrong two weeks ago. It's been rough ever since. I don't drink or do drugs(not against either, it's just not my thing) but tonight I've got a nice sauvignon blanc that's gonna get polished off as I study and post.

[gigabyte]

Jmig, be careful of Repetitive Strain Injury, it is fairly common and using a keyboard, or the wrong posture/seat adjustment when driving can make things worse. I see a lot of this in my line of work, and a small strain from lifting weights, or a bad lift of a heavy object can start something and RSI can make it much worse, my Doc always asks me the same thing - Does it hurt when you do this/that or the other thing, if I say yes, his response is always well stop doing it then you old fool... he has as much sympathy for me as my wife - as in NONE...lol

[TARPSBird]

Several of my friends have gotten good results from chiropractic treatment so maybe Harleyman's suggestion is worth trying out. I stay away from prescription pain-killers but Excedrin Back & Body has helped me with back pain on the job.

[wombat666]

For the past week I have been having pain in my neck, left upper back shoulder and arm. I think I bent something while doing barbell squats last week. The pain is only when I am sitting like at a computer, driving, etc and it moves.

Find yourself a GOOD Clinical Myotherapist John.

"Myotherapy treatment involves an extensive physical evaluation with an integrated approach to the treatment of involved muscles, joints and nerves. Myotherapy can be utilised to treat acute and chronic conditions, as well as in the area of preventative management and prescriptive exercises. A distinguishing feature of Myotherapy is the clinical reasoning used, in which standard methods of evaluation are used such as orthopaedic tests, postural assessment, neurological and functional testing in conjunction with a thorough palpatory assessment of the spine, peripheral joint play, and the contractile evaluation of musculature.
Myotherapists are primary health care practitioners, although they are currently often the last point of call for many patients. Currently, a qualification can be obtained at several tertiary institutions. In Australia, there is currently only one not-for-profit institution that provides a degree level Myotherapy qualification. In time, students graduating from this university will be known as Clinical Myotherapists, which will then differentiate between Myotherapists with a Bachelor degree, and those with an Advanced Diploma."


Madame Wombat (the cynical pragmatic surgeon ) is a believer in Myotherapy and Clinical Myotherapists, while I can endorse the benefits myself.
More to the point, our Government run Medical Benefits service recognises and covers Myotherapy treatment.


:d

[Ickie]

I take the real stuff.

If you go to the Dr. and ask him/her for relief, you will get something you cannot prononce nor does it work very good.
If you tell your DR to give you hydrocodon or better you will leave with something wih a little kick in it and a touch of feel good too.

[kilo delta]

If the pain doesn't ease request an MRI scan. I was involved in an accident in May '08 leading to a discectomy and fitting of a prosthetic disc in Sept '08 as one of my discs (c6-c7) had pancaked. The 2 discs above the prosthesis are badly damaged too but will not be operated on unless it's absolutely necessary due to the risks involved.
I've been in constant pain 24/7 since the initial accident...tried lots of drugs (currently 3x200mg of Lyrica daily), physio, TENS, Injections into the nerve roots in my neck and and am now seeing a pain specialist who will be trying botox injections into the neck muscles in the upcoming weeks.

Drank quite a few bottles of whiskey in the early stages too.....which helped a lot....until the effects of the alcohol wore off and I was left with a massive hangover as well as the pain in my neck. :d

[aeromed202]

Some decent, if spendy tips so far. Glad you're having this looked at. Snuffy has the right right idea too. When someone has s/s in the neck, left shoulder or jaw, even without classic chest pain or shortness of breath we always go down the cardiac route, if only to rule it out. Hope it turns out to be nothing more than a wrong move at the weight bench.

[cheezyflier]

i had pain meds when i smashed up my ankle. they ruined my sleep patterns and made me depressed.
getting off of them was better than being on them. oh, the irony

[Cazzie]

Too bad ya don't live in Kal-ee-for-ya John, ya could git some "real" good pain meds. :d

Caz

[Naismith]

Get a New Mattress - solves a lot of back and neck issues.

[jmig]

Too bad ya don't live in Kal-ee-for-ya John, ya could git some "real" good pain meds. :d

Caz

Actually, we are headed to northern California, home of the cannabis forest...I mean redwood forests. :d

Went to my GP and he says that I have classic symptoms of a pinched nerve. Took X-rays but they were inconclusive. He gave me some pain pills to take as needed and put me on a 10 day regimen of two Advil in the morning and evening for inflammation. If it is still bothering me when we return from vacation at the end of the month, he will schedule me for a MRI.

I want to thank everyone who offered advice. You guys offered very good suggestions. Things that I will look into if I don't heal over the next two weeks.

[aeromed202]

Sorry but nerve pain is one of the hardest to control. But glad it was that. Things like hot packs and no workouts come to mind. Avoid Percocet (known to cause hallucinations) and Ambien (known to cause sleepwalking/sleep driving/sleep going to work while hallucinating) :icon_lol:

[Cazzie]

Actually, we are headed to northern California, home of the cannabis forest...I mean redwood forests. :d

Went to my GP and he says that I have classic symptoms of a pinched nerve. Took X-rays but they were inconclusive. He gave me some pain pills to take as needed and put me on a 10 day regimen of two Advil in the morning and evening for inflammation. If it is still bothering me when we return from vacation at the end of the month, he will schedule me for a MRI.

I want to thank everyone who offered advice. You guys offered very good suggestions. Things that I will look into if I don't heal over the next two weeks.

I envy your trip! Don't take that literally! :icon_lol:

John, is there any exercise regimen that you could do that would possibly keep the nerve from being pinched.

I have a degenerated disk in my 5th lumbar and if my back muscles get weak and the joint lies on the sciatic nerve, let me tell you, I know it from back to right ankle and am vertically a cripple. Many years ago a sports medicine doc from UVA gave me three distinct exercises (simple ones too) to build up the muscles in my lower back and keep me upright rather than hunched. I do them like a true Christian practices his religion and unless I get a bout of arthritis, I rarely have a moments problem. There will always be some discomfort, but after 23 years, I have learned to live with that.

Here's hoping some therapy will work out.

Caz

[Snuffy]

... Went to my GP and he says that I have classic symptoms of a pinched nerve. Took X-rays but they were inconclusive. He gave me some pain pills to take as needed and put me on a 10 day regimen of two Advil in the morning and evening for inflammation. If it is still bothering me when we return from vacation at the end of the month, he will schedule me for a MRI.

I want to thank everyone who offered advice. You guys offered very good suggestions. Things that I will look into if I don't heal over the next two weeks.

John, if this is truly the case, i.e. pinched nerve, pain pills or any other stuff you're going to get from a GP isn't going to fix the problem. All the pills do is block the signals from the aflicted area to your brain, and all those functions that pass through that never will have to be learned by other networks.

Go to a Kinesiologist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesiology)similar to a chiropractor but they are more into the mechanics of human movement and will better treat your nerve problem.

Keep us posted yet again.

OH, and you totally ignored my question about Scotch ... :(

[jmig]

John, if this is truly the case, i.e. pinched nerve, pain pills or any other stuff you're going to get from a GP isn't going to fix the problem. All the pills do is block the signals from the aflicted area to your brain, and all those functions that pass through that never will have to be learned by other networks.

Go to a Kinesiologist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesiology)similar to a chiropractor but they are more into the mechanics of human movement and will better treat your nerve problem.

Keep us posted yet again.

OH, and you totally ignored my question about Scotch ... :(

Kinesiologist!! http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-shocked010.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)


Isn't that what football and basketball players who can't pass anything else major in?

The bottle of Scotch says Glenlivet 12 yrs. Except mine is about 20 yrs old. I don't even remember where and when I got it. I am not a hard liquor drinker. Mostly beer and a little wine. I was desperate for some numbing that night. :)

[Roadburner440]

That is all I do if I am in pain is drink some hard liquor and just about good as new. I do not trust current drugs as it seems the side effects are worse than the things that ail you in the first place. Not to mention most say not to drive, operate heavy machines, etc. So it is pretty much the same warnings as drinking. :icon_lol: So I can fix my pain, without a prescription, and without getting the runs, risk of stroke/heart attack, or possibly death, lol.

[kilo delta]

without getting the runs, risk of stroke/heart attack, or possibly death, lol.

Hmm...you ain't trying hard enough! :d Go get some REAL alcohol into your system! LOL

:)

[Snuffy]

Kinesiologist!! http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-shocked010.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)


Isn't that what football and basketball players who can't pass anything else major in?

The bottle of Scotch says Glenlivet 12 yrs. Except mine is about 20 yrs old. I don't even remember where and when I got it. I am not a hard liquor drinker. Mostly beer and a little wine. I was desperate for some numbing that night. :)





Read the link. ;)

Rgr that on the Scotch ... I thought you might have had a nip or two already and it was affecting your spelling! :bump:

[Henry]

My wife has bad back problems
last time we were in paris she had to have the hotel DR give her morphine
so she could come home
it comes and goes started again after 6 hr drive to arkansas
just excersise and have a husband
who will take care of you
H