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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / February 2005Arhritis: How do you handle pain flare ups??
How do you handle your pain flare ups Heat?? Cold?? Hot Paraffin Wax?? When you already taken your meds and they don't seem to work--even after several hours.... Bonnie > How do you handle your pain flare ups > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Bonnie I cry and whinge a lot, it seems to help ;-) Hot showers, I prefer the heat to the cold as far as packs go. The only places I can do the cold packs are my wrists and my feet in a cold soak. I'm 30 weeks pregnant and can't take my ibuprofen but am allowed to have a pred shot if I get really bad. I'm getting close but hoping to put if of until I'm 35 weeks to see me through to the birth. Andrea I have Osteoathritis---and I have hot a hot paraffin bath or dry hands-- Are there pain rubs out there that ACTUALLY WORK i.e. Icy Hot--that one can use between pain meds. Voltaren doesn't seem to want to work today--and don't know why I can only take Voltaren 100 mgs once a day. HELP! Bonnie I have a scrip for Voltaren 100 ER and one for the regular 50 mg. tablets. Dr. says to take the ER in the morning and, if needed, the 50 later in the day for those really bad days. I can also take Tylenol for breakthrough pain. Sounds like a call to the rheumy might be in order. Hot baths are a daily nighttime ritual for me, followed by thermal jammies and thick socks. Kelly C.;o) > I have Osteoathritis---and I have hot a hot paraffin bath or dry > hands-- [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Bonnie > Are there pain rubs out there that ACTUALLY WORK i.e. > Icy Hot--that one can use between pain meds. Voltaren > doesn't seem to want to work today--and don't know why When all else fails (Tyenol #3 and patches) I apply KETOPROFE 10% PLO 60GM. It's a compound "apply to painful joints twice a day." I obtained the prescription 11/09/04 and still have about half left. With my insurance, the co-pay was $10. That's a hike from my usual co-pay of $3 for a month's supply of everything else. Hot wax is definitely my preference for my hands. Bruce > How do you handle your pain flare ups > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Bonnie i HAVE A PARAFFIN HAND BATH >>How do you handle your pain flare ups >> >>Heat?? Cold?? Hot Paraffin Wax?? >>When you already taken your meds and they don't seem to work--even after >>several hours.... Vodka :) Seriously though, I usually take a warm bath and that seems to help, although heat usually makes swelling worse I find it helps for me. Brad I usually use cold as it seems to calm pain more readily for me than heat does, but sometimes I have to play around with different options. YMMV, some folks do better with heat and it always depends on what hurts and how cold it is inside your house, etc. As for pain rubs, some of us here really like "Sore-no-More" - google it, they have a website. They'll send you a small free sample. Then there's always the good, stiff drink solution if the pain is keeping you awake. I think I'm about to resort to that tonight as my hands and ribcage woke me when I'd barely gotten to sleep.  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare Cold makes me hurt worse..and then the heat makes already inflammed joints hotter...But Id rather do heat than cold....The cold sets of my FM flares...So I am kind of in a rock and a hard place... Do you all really like your hot parrifin for your hands....I think I will try and get one if they help that much... Hey can you get a bathtub full of it...LOL.. Actually I have Lortabs 7.5...The anti inflammatories really do not help me that much...But I will take Ibuprofen..It works as well as the others for me and the cost is less... Hugs Cindy > How do you handle your pain flare ups > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Bonnie > How do you handle your pain flare ups > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Bonnie nerve pain--cold; joint pain--hot. yep on parafin dips for hands and feet. my spine is not tip top, neither are my knees----so, i soak my entire body in a hot tub or jacuzzi. use my spinulator table; inversion table--decompressing; massaging desk chair; tens unit; meditation exercises; used to use tennis balls in a sock on the floor for my spine until that became too painful; shiatsu massage chair pad in the livingroom; vibrating massage seat pad in my car seat. LOL---i've been "acquiring" all these things over the past 30 years. my chiropractor has lots of good gentle techniques---but my spine won't hold the benefits very long; acupuncture helps my osteoarthritis i think, but doesn't do much for the disc stuff for some reason i can't figure out; love real massages if and when i can afford them cuz they last 3 days. electrostim sometimes helps and sometimes just doesn't. for me, it feels like getting my muscles to relax and release the tension pain causes helps reduce pain most. my chiro just taught me something that helped her work on me. you focus all your thoughts and energies on wiggling your toes, feel them, notice everything about wiggling them.LOL what can i say? as silly as it sounds, it helped relax my body, when entire body heat packs couldn't do the job. kate |
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