Pain management is so individual and such a pain in the neck as well, lol!!
What I would suggest is to ask your doctor, your primary care physician, for
a referral to a pain clinic or a pain specialist doctor, whichever you have
where you live and to get on the best regimen that will suit your needs... I
have gone that route as have many others and it is the best for unrelenting
and ongoing chronic pain
.... specialists have their purposes and even though I prefer dealing with
my own doctor with most everything, sometimes you just have to go to someone
who can help you even better and in some cases it will be a specialist
.....  good luck!

I am in pain  managment.  My pain doctor is a family physician.  He has a
poor opinion of anethesiologists for pain managment.
I take Avinza (24 hour release of morphine) daily and use Norco for
breakthru. I use a lot of other drugs too.
If you're in CA, I can give you his name.
Nicole

Hello Margaret,

I have experienced chronic pain for about seven months now due to a
neglected growing ovarian cyst. The pain is intense and unfortunately
my threshold has not been strengthened enough to accept daily doses of
intolerable waves of pure pain shooting through the left side of my
body.

Manage it ? Well, to strengthen the pain threshold I engage in
grounding meditation, hot baths complete with aromatherapeutic candles
(sage, jasmine, lavender, eucalyptus, and myrhh), stretching and
relaxing pelvic and leg muscles, and alot of dreaming to be better, or
at least feel better, eery morning.

And of course there is always my stand-by when all of the above fails:
1 Aleve with two eight oz glasses of water. I discuss the progress of
my treatment at some of my blog pages:

http://360.yahoo.com/affect_ive1

http://www.xanga.com/enlightenedpsych2

There is also important information on cysts, fibroids, fibromyalgia,
depression & endometriosis found here :

http://www.freewebs.com/enlightenment/womenshealth.htm

I hope this helps and that we can keep in touch off this board as well
as on.

sharing the light,
~enlightenedpsych2~

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25mgs oxycodone IR every 6 hours.... I can sometimes get away with
Hydrocodone to fill in the gaps
--
Bill

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"  -- M.Python --.