I will look that up.Gabapentin.
Upon further research, that won't do. Not recommend for the pain in question and the side effect to the liver would be dangerous for me. I may be SOL. I can bear it but it ain't no fun and nothing over the counter does Jack.Gabapentin.
No fucking way. That is a nerve blocker. I noticed no benefits whatsoever. It did literally nothing for me at any dose.Gabapentin.
I have had chronic back pain for years. Popped it in yoga Quit yoga but did marathons, long distance cycling and mountain peaks through it and none of that helped. I have been WAAAAY less active for a year now and rest hasn't helped it. Nothing helps it. It just fucking hurts.No fucking way. That is a nerve blocker. I noticed no benefits whatsoever. It did literally nothing for me at any dose.
I have had herniated discs that flare up ever since the mid 80. Three times it has become so bad I have had to have help walking. Put me down the first time for 3 months, the other two time, two weeks and one week. This is not near as painful as that and I have pulled muscles in my upper back in the past but it would usually go away in a day or two. Never did it pinch a nerve where the pain is running down my arm like it does down my legs with the discs? This has been going on a week and a half now. Like I said, this is bearable. When I get the pain in the lower back I have sometimes literally screamed out in pain. This is just making me curse. If it gets any worse.. I am a bit better today.I have had chronic back pain for years. Popped it in yoga Quit yoga but did marathons, long distance cycling and mountain peaks through it and none of that helped. I have been WAAAAY less active for a year now and rest hasn't helped it. Nothing helps it. It just fucking hurts.
I never eat white bread but I am kind of a sugar junkie. Funny, my wife has the diabetes and I don't. I have the high blood pressureNot for nothin..
Consider laying off anything flammatory. Sugar, white bread.....I'm not the expert, that would be my wife (somewhat). Might not help, but couldn't hurt.
I went to visit an orthopedic surgeon who was on the Denver Brocos staff in the eighties. He told me as long as I can bear the pain don't have an operation. He gave me these following reasons. One, I could die from the anesthesia, If I slip you could be paralyzed from the waist down, even if everything goes smoothly you could come out dragging a leg, even if completely successful you will never be one hundred percent again. Those are the four I remember. I have taken his advice. I have learned for me personally, don't stay in bed, get up, move, do something, stand the pain and it eventually goes away. If I just lay in bed it last way longer, so I just fight my way through it. I though he was a pretty doctor to admit that he could slip and I could be paralyzed. My neighbor across the way came back from the hospital paralyzed from the waist down from the same operation.I have had back issues for a long time and at times totally debilitating. Long story short, when i started having back and leg pain doctor took all kinds of images and prescribed all sorts of things ranging from PT to meds to nerve blocks and nothing worked. I finally went to a chiropractor and he has been able to keep me out of surgery. I have several bulged disks and disk degeneration and if not for him i'm pretty sure I would have been in a wheel chair years ago. The down side is that you need to do what he says and once you start going you don't stop.
I have thought of chiropractors but my problem with the disc thing is when I am in that much pain I am not letting anyone touch me, and when I am not in pain I am not about to let anyone touch me, if your picking up what I am putting down. Last flareup started when I bent over to pick up my cat. It didn't put me down but I was in pain for about a month and kept up and moving but in slo mo. If bending over to pick up my cat and the like can cause it, I am not letting anyone manipulate my back. The women always tell me ah, that's nothing, try childbirth. I finally ran into a women coworker who had the same disc problems and had children and asked her. I was told the discs were much worse? That is just one sample though.I have had back issues for a long time and at times totally debilitating. Long story short, when i started having back and leg pain doctor took all kinds of images and prescribed all sorts of things ranging from PT to meds to nerve blocks and nothing worked. I finally went to a chiropractor and he has been able to keep me out of surgery. I have several bulged disks and disk degeneration and if not for him i'm pretty sure I would have been in a wheel chair years ago. The down side is that you need to do what he says and once you start going you don't stop.