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ian
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For muscular skeletal pain I've tried em all.

 

Some of em are somewhat effective and others ( especially over a course of several days) are superb. However, they come with significant health warnings and I can no longer take the best ones.

 

Enter the honourable 'Tiger Balm'.

Oh Tiger! You are a fierce predator. 

Cool and calm

You sooth yourself in tall grass

You lay down on sheets of earthen bliss

Your touch is both devastating and transcending. 

Your bite!

It burns! It burns! 

But I welcome your teeth.

Consume the pain of this mortal fearful existence and for a moment at least I know heaven is within reach.

 

 

Anyone else got any pain relief tips?

 

 

 

 



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Depends on the problem. Depends on allergies. Depends on whether pain relief will be masking a serious problem.

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As heman says...it's not really possible to offer much without knowing the detail.

Pain is a fascinating topic and it's clearly a field that the medical profession don't understand fully.

As a sufferer of chronic pain following a hernia repair I realise just how complicated it is.

The newer pain pathway blocking drugs such as pregabalin are a very useful addition to more traditional painkillers.

Personally I take tramadol and pregabalin and this combination works well.

Tramadol is of course addictive and other drugs should be tried first.

Ian if you have gastric problems with anti inflammatory tabs then your doctor can prescribe an anti ulcer drug such as lansoprazole to prevent side effects.



-- Edited by Kempo on Wednesday 31st of December 2014 09:30:53 AM

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I find Ibulieve pretty good for muscular, or most Ibuprofin based creams, tried the sprays, deep heat, freeze etc and they're pants. Used mostly only my glass ankle for 5 a side reasons though. Recently did something between my spine and shoulder blade, sneezing for goodness sake. 2 weeks now and it's still not gone away but is getting better - nothing I've tried is touching it & don't want to get into the knock out tablets

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An example of why pain relief isn't always a good thing. My knees were shot at. I used aspirin, cocodamol ibuprofen, paracetamol, the lot. They all worked short term. Then I had 2 months of flexiseq which is a compound you rub around the knee area. It is not a drug. Basically it lubricated my rusty knees and now no pain.

also I have found something counter-intuitive. Exercise increases pain and swelling in the short term but decreases it long term.



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Very, very true re exercise.

The nub of the exercise-pain relief experience is persistence.

Often our beliefs get in the way:

I am doing more damage.
I cant take the pain.
I am exhausted.
I shouldnt have to work so hard.

so ,yes, it is massively counter intuitive.

A balanced approach prob works best for most things, i.e., take some pain relief, but exercise regularly and then experiment with reducing pain relief.

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