MELOXICAM vs PREGABALIN

I am absolutely going to scream! I had a vacation recently with friends where on the last day my meloxicam got packed into the bag, was unreachable and I hit a flareup mid morning. Not proud of it but I had a meltdown at some point because everything was too much and they wanted to discuss everythin

My pain doctor increased my hydrocodone from 3 a day to 4 a day. My pharmacist refused to fill the prescription. The prescription was sent to them on 10/6. They didn’t fill it. So my Dr sent it again on 10/22. Now I have 2 pills left, and the pharmacist said he needs the Dr to write out his detail

I had to tag this as funny, in a very sarcastic way. Talk about feeling unseen. I am on meloxicam, cymbalta and Humira for my RA. Stretching, Epsom salts baths, plant based diet just in case, meditate, starting therapy, limit my caffeine, medical marijuana. I know what I forgot, ibuprofen!

Hey, all. I have chronic pain due to ehlers danlos, fibromyalgia, carpal and ulnar tunnel in both arms, osteoarthritis in my lower back, and what I think are some other issues that haven't been diagnosed. I've had pain for years and have tried everything over the counter as well as Celebrex, Meloxic

After struggling for years with doctors that either don't take me seriously, try stupid solutions that dont work or just help me learn to "cope with it" instead of working on a diagnosis i got a new primary doctor THAT ACTUALLY LISTENS!!!! I mentioned a few different things i think i could have, she

First, this is a rant and basically nothing but a rant. I'm new here and I've been reading through a lot of posts that might apply to me. I just turned 40 in Feb of this year. Memorial day weekend of 2023 my car got totaled on a drivers side impact, and I've been in excruciating pain ever since. I'v

What’s up with Pain management drs not giving out pain killers to people who actually need it? Not everyone has addictive behaviors! I just had shoulder surgery was given a script of 30 OxyContin 5s that’s it and when I asked surgeon to get it refilled I was told to go to pain management. So I go to

Today i saw the new NP at pain management, i expressed how much pain ive been in, what it feels like, how it affects my daily life. She said “you’re only 40 and thats young, we already increase 1.5 times ( went from hydrocodone 5/325 to oxycodone 5 IR) i don’t want to change anything cause your “you

6 years ago I broke my knee playing rugby. I was 33. I had a fair bit of metal put in and lots and lots of rehab. 2 years on crutches and over 4 years of physio. Nothing helped the pain and they removed the metal, which also didn’t help. I had a nerve block injection and was told it may stop the pai

In 2018 I started having daily headaches, it was in my temples, eyebrows/forehead and neck/occipital. I was bedridden for 6 years, unable to work, study, clean my own bedroom or even watching something on TV. I've taken every possible migraine medication: topiramate, emgality, amitriptyline, pregaba

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I've had to move back home due to the cost of living be so high and my mum has taken my dihydrocodeine from me. She says I take it everyday and am addicted. She says that I should just take paracetamo and be on a pain patch. I'm only taking my dihydrocodeine as prescribed for my slipped discs and p

25F just recently diagnosed so I went to the pharmacy to pick up pregabalin prescribed by my rheumatologist. Of course I hadn’t taken it before so I asked the pharmacist to go over it with me. He asks “what’s it for”? I say “fibromyalgia” then the comments of “wow you’re pretty young for that”. I gu

Title says all. I was recently diagnosed with fibro after testing negative for other autoimmune and muscle diseases. However I seem to have a unique version where I experience 24/7 muscle stiffness and inflammation. Being a little risqué, it feels like I'm tightly wrapped up in BDSM-type rope all ov

I started with 1.5mg and slowly worked my way to 4.5mg, going up 0.5mg at a time. Since the very first dose, I noticed a decrease in pain. With every single dose increase, the pain relief got better and better. When I hit 3.5mg, I had ZERO pain the next day during my 8 hours of work. That’s right -

Just a vent post really. Why is every single medical appointment such a fucking fight every time to advocate for myself and be heard??? Like even with pain management doctors who are supposed to want to help people like me. I literally asked about pregabalin because we haven’t really tried many me