Hi all, I have a question

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Hi everyone,

I haven't posted in a long time because my life lately has been

messy to put it mildly. I have had a lot of stress and of course my

Fibro has been acting up very badly because of all I have going on.

I had been doing pretty well in the last two years with my pain

levels, I still had pain everyday but I was able to tolerate it

without a lot of medications until two months ago when all this

stress came into my life. I finally had to go see my doctor to get

on some medication to help me tolerate it all. My doc put me on

Amitriptylin at night, at first I was on 50mg, then she upped it to

75mg. She also put me on Vicoden 750mg as needed. Well, the

Amitriptylin is helping me sleep once I fall asleep but the Vicoden

as usual wasn't helping me. She sent me to a Pain Management Clinic

to see if maybe they had some other suggestions. The nurse

practitioner that I talked to there suggested that my Amitriptylin

be upped to 100mg at night because I had tried Lyrica a while back

and it made me very dizzy so I stopped taking it. She also wants me

to have a Lidocaine Infusion done. Finally my question- Has anyone

ever had this done, and does it help? Sorry this is so long but i

figured I better give you a little background. I hope everyone is

doing as well as possible and i appreciate any imput you can give

me. Gentle hugs to everyone! Thanks, Vicki G.

[Guest guest]

Hi Vicki,

I am not of sure of the term Lidocaine Infusion, but I have had

trigger point injections with B12 and lidocane done. They have been a

life saver with me.

I don't post much due to the fact I have severe FM and quite frankly

some days its hard to get through the day even on meds. But for

around 3 weeks after the injections I have to admit the pain levels

are down and I probably over do it because I am behind on everything.

I have learned the hard way to, at the very least, try something new.

Teri

>

> Hi everyone,

>

> I haven't posted in a long time because my life lately has been

> messy to put it mildly. I have had a lot of stress and of course my

> Fibro has been acting up very badly because of all I have going on.

> I had been doing pretty well in the last two years with my pain

> levels, I still had pain everyday but I was able to tolerate it

> without a lot of medications until two months ago when all this

> stress came into my life. I finally had to go see my doctor to get

> on some medication to help me tolerate it all. My doc put me on

> Amitriptylin at night, at first I was on 50mg, then she upped it to

> 75mg. She also put me on Vicoden 750mg as needed. Well, the

> Amitriptylin is helping me sleep once I fall asleep but the Vicoden

> as usual wasn't helping me. She sent me to a Pain Management Clinic

> to see if maybe they had some other suggestions. The nurse

> practitioner that I talked to there suggested that my Amitriptylin

> be upped to 100mg at night because I had tried Lyrica a while back

> and it made me very dizzy so I stopped taking it. She also wants me

> to have a Lidocaine Infusion done. Finally my question- Has anyone

> ever had this done, and does it help? Sorry this is so long but i

> figured I better give you a little background. I hope everyone is

> doing as well as possible and i appreciate any imput you can give

> me. Gentle hugs to everyone! Thanks, Vicki G.

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you for the reply Tami, much appreciated! I was told that I will be given

an IV and then the put the Lidocaine in me through the IV. I will know more

about it as soon as I get the packet in the mail. Gentle hugs to all, Vicki

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then God sure must have a much higher opinion of me than I do! "

***Always stay true to yourself, never change who you really are for anyone! If

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