Does anything actually work?

[dejerine]

Is it just me, or is the bottom line for the majority of posts that no medicine for burning really works.

To me, there are two aspects to be treated in pain.

1) pain
2) the psychological distress

As to the pain itself, if there is a drug that cuts it, I would like to know.

As to the emotional distress, I have found several drugs which sedate and calm me, but I do not regard these as pain medicines. They are coping medicines.

I realize the shooting pains, tingling, and muscle cramps can be treated with opiates and other drugs, but sometimes the plethora of anticonvulsants, GABA drugs, etc. seem like a wild goose chase with respect to the burning. Sometimes the meds seem more like endorsements of an infomercial, or the old traveling medicine show than a specific treatment for burning dysesthesia. Does anyone here actually have anything that stops the burning? If so, what (please)?

[This message was edited by dejerine on 11-29-04 at 03:50 PM.]

[zillazangel]

Essentially, nothing works uniformly very well for everyone. Sometimes the meds you listed work, but if they don't for you, there isn't much else. Have you tried the anticonvulsants, gabapentin etc?

[dejerine]

In comparing notes with others, the one central pain that seems almost universal is the burning pain, which doesnt' come in just one area but is a kind of zone with indistinct borders. The shooting pain is very precisely located and doesn't feel bizarre in quality.

[This message was edited by dejerine on 12-01-04 at 08:19 AM.]

[woman from Europe]

Dejerine

I have taken 2mg clonazempam together with 700 mg karisoprodol every night the last 5 years and my pain disepeared. The 15 years before that I was half dead every day from pain. It saved me.

TH 12 incomplete 12-12-69.

[dejerine]

Eurowoman,

That is very nice to hear. Did the soma just relieve the muscular pain, or did it help the skin as well?