I've been doing the theropy and it may be helping, this is first time I've been over 30 minutes wirhout pain unless ice or heat. Picture below shows where the pain in .But it will go far down as fingers and really hurt bad. I took a half Tylenol twice yesterday and one with aspirin. I'm wondering if I should stop eating ice cream? I eat half gallon a week.Maybe it caused inflamation and then I hurt it too dancing around for heart exercise.
It comes back on strong after about an hour geting out of bed. I stopped all ice cream and going to try the inflamation that @Yvonne Smith wastalking about,like pineapple. By midday yesterday I was pacing it was a 8 even ice and heat didn't calm it much.! Today I will take a Tylenol maybe a little extra Aspirin too. I thought the PT was working but Nope.
I can't agree more on anti-inflammatory foods. I attribute my lack of pain from eating as many of these foods as I can, as I had some pretty severe pain in the past. Most of mine has been migraine pain, that's been the worst over a lifetime of getting migraine. Then I developed some arthritis (and my grand-dad, and mom had severe arthritis). I hit the ground running with the anti-infammatory foods, and some supplements like Magnesium. Tylenol (just plain) does good for occasional pain, and yes, I always have at least ibuprofen handy, or Aleve. Aleve comes on slower but lasts longer, and Ibu last shorter but I think, works faster. Below is a list of foods I eat, including Wildcaught Alaskan Salmon when our little Grocery Outlet gets it, and at an affordable price for me. I also get my omega 3 in other things like flaxseed, and walnuts, eat those every day. I put my walnuts chopped up into my 2 Good Vanilla Yogurt, and also add my fave T2 friendly berries. My flaxseed I sprinkle on my eggs (as an omelete) along with my Nutritional Yeast. Here's that link of foods might help someone else: https://perfectketo.com/anti-inflammatory-foods/ I not only have less, almost no pain, but I also lost 20 pounds of ugly fat bonus!! I watch videos like this one to learn what I can try for myself
there's a tens unit you can purchase from Walmart...it sends the little current to the area applied.. I use it
If I didn't take what I take, I'd be up shits creek, would not even be walking as I do now and it's not a great deal. A hip replacement messed me up terrible in 2010. I take a low dose combo of pain stuff every 6 hrs and I'm about to take my 5:30 stuff soon, i motrin softgel, 1 Pain RX tablet (you can look it up) and 1 tylenol. And make sure there is something in my stomach, crackers etc. then my next dose at 11:30PM will be 1 motrin, 1 pain RX and one white willow bark, and repeat again at 5:30AM.... etc etc etc I have also taken ibuprofen 200mg tab but I kinda like Motrin 200mg softgel. Can't imagine counting on icing thru the day...... I'm never completely out of pain but it's all manageable.
That is DDD in the upper spine, there is a nerve blocker " Gabapentin: Uses, Side Effects, Dosages, Interactions & More Gabapentin is a prescription medication known as a gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) analogue. GABA reduces the excitability of nerve cells (neurons) in the brain, which play a role in seizures and the transmission of pain signals. Gabapentin mirrors the effects of GABA calming excited neurons. Gabapentin is in a class of medications called" I used this for about 5 years and it is not a pain killer per se but you take it with any pain killer like say Tylenol and it makes a huge difference. Usually the patient sets their own dosage because we all have different levels of pain. I was told by the doctor that prescribed it for me that even tho it is classified as habit forming it is still a safe drug. I have not had any now for a month and I have not felt anything that would suggest I was addicted to it. I just take Tylenol now until I see my doctor again and have it renewed. I have a terrible burning sensation when I get up and I force myself to live with it until I can get the Rx again.
I took Gabapentin for several months. At first, I kind of liked it, as it did have a mild euphoric effect. That's probably not grammatically correct since if the effects were mild, they wouldn't be euphoric, but maybe you get the idea. After taking it for a while, though, it just seemed that I was tired, not very alert when I was awake, and I was having trouble thinking of simple words. Is that the result of age or a side effect of Gabapentin? I wasn't sure but since Gabapentin wasn't a life-saving drug, I quit taking it, and, after a few months, things got better. I'm still old so I get tired, and sometimes can't remember the word I'm looking for, but I think it was worse while I was taking Gabapentin.
The list of ailments that the drug does help is just limitless due to the fact it does effect our pain receptors of our brains, I had no trouble and I have terrible DDD in my neck. I have no after effects after 5 years use daily two times and sometimes 3 time per day. DDD in the upper spine is the vertebra expanded and flat and it shoves against the nerve sac running down the spine. I was told that the pain levels sometimes go completely away but no such luck for me. Steroid shots did help for a year but they do wear off after time. Mine was so bad that my left hand would go to sleep sitting here at my desk, the steroid did stop that !
I took Gabapentin for a couple of weeks in 2017 when I had shingles. It was to help the nerve pain and I suppose it did the job. Many people take it for peripheral neuropathy and other nerve-related pain.
I took gaba in 2011 after neck surgery. I was on the max dose of hydrocodone so I don't know if the gaba helped any or not. Like most drugs, effectiveness varies from person to person. I know a woman who took it after having her foot crushed by a horse. It worked pretty good for her, as I recall.
I knew a guy who had his feet crushed in an accident, and he took GABA with some success until he found a surgeon who could reconstruct his feet. As far as I know, his pain is mostly gone now. I also knew a 16 year old boy who had metastatic cancer of the spine. His pain was unbearable and nothing would address it until he had an implant into his spine and he could essentially turn off his spinal nerves whenever the pain got unbearable. Sadly he died a few weeks later, but at least the pain in his last few weeks was bearable for him.
My Mother had an electronic device that would block out the nerves in her spine to keep her from falling.
I have a chiropractor that I swear can cure a rainy day. I have been going to her clinic for decades and my kids also. She refers me when I am too stubborn to get a hip replacement and such. She is exceptional with pinched nerves and spine issues. (But she can't conquer my leg.) Maybe there is a wonder chiro near you? I never took pain meds till the last couple of years. I tried ibuprofen but that is bad for kidneys, eyes etc. I can't take tylenol--I just end up giving it back. That Theraworx was pretty good (topical magnesium foam) Then I tried lidocaine patches. They help me make it through the day when I just can't walk but the ingredient list has aluminum something as the first one. Amazon's aspirin has talc in it.
Chiropractors are like doctors--it is wonderful when you find a good one (or the one that fits your needs)--but there are so many mediocre ones out there, and a few really bad ones, that it may take some research and time to find the right one. I always tell people to look to hospital nurses and ask who they go to. Hospital nurses usually have insights into medical practitioners that the lay community does not. Some of the absolutely terrible quacks I have known have been adored by their patients as they were led to their disability or death by those same beloved doctors.