Pain Pain Help What is it? What to say?
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From: Jamie Dolan on 6 Mar 2006 15:44 HI, I am going to need to go to my doctor for help with this. I don't know how to properly describe what is going on. When I go to bed, I often fall asleep for half hour to a hour or so perhaps less perhaps more. I wake up then, to what seems like severe restless legs , but all over my body. It is like a painful itching feeling all over my body, my whole body is in pain, everything hurts everywhere. It is like a stabing itching, it just is pain everywhere, but it is different than the deep aching pain i normally feel. It is this stabing - likes pins all over my body. I cant say that I never felt this prior to when i took lycira, but after i took lycria for 3 days, this seems to have been worse at night... last night I had to take 1 hydrocodone, 1 robaxin, 1 vermeperal, 2 clonazopam, 75mg benedryl, then i still could not get the pain undercontroal after a while, and i had to go back and take 1 hydrocodone, 1 robaxin, 25mg benedryl, 1 clonazopam, 650mg tylenol. I still feel some of the itching pain feeling in the day, but it is not nearly as bad, as after i have falen asleep. This is like hard for me to describe the exact feeling, except, it is excedingly painful! Any good idea on how i describe this to my doctor? The feeling is so weird and painful, and I just dont know exactly how to describe it.. Can anyone relate to this feeling at all? It is soo weird. I just dont know how i can describe how bad this is to anyone that has not experianced it,, i am hoping that someone here care relate and tell me what this might be or help me better explain this to my doctor... jamie
From: Smokie Darling (Annie) on 6 Mar 2006 16:01 Jamie Dolan wrote: > HI, > > I am going to need to go to my doctor for help with this. I don't know > how to properly describe what is going on. When I go to bed, I often > fall asleep for half hour to a hour or so perhaps less perhaps more. > > I wake up then, to what seems like severe restless legs , but all over > my body. It is like a painful itching feeling all over my body, my > whole body is in pain, everything hurts everywhere. It is like a > stabing itching, it just is pain everywhere, but >>>>>it is different than the deep aching pain i normally feel. It is this stabing - likes pins {{being stuck}} all over my body.<<<<< That sounds perfect for describing it (the { } is my addition). ----8<---snipped for brevity only--->8---- > Can anyone relate to this feeling at all? It is soo weird. I just dont > know how i can describe how bad this is to anyone that has not > experianced it,, i am hoping that someone here care relate and tell me > what this might be or help me better explain this to my doctor... Once, when trying to describe a pain in my foot, I asked the doc if he'd ever stepped on a sliver of glass, when he said he had, I said *that* is exactly what the ENTIRE bottom of both feet feel like (I've been tested for diabetes - negative), all the time. Hope you can get some help with that, as it sounds completely horrid (I have something like seizures that sound similar to your restless leg, but I don't have that kind of pain). Smokie Darling (Annie)
From: Janey Pooh on 6 Mar 2006 16:37 Jamie Dolan wrote: > HI, > > I am going to need to go to my doctor for help with this. I don't know > how to properly describe what is going on. When I go to bed, I often > fall asleep for half hour to a hour or so perhaps less perhaps more. > > I wake up then, to what seems like severe restless legs , but all over > my body. It is like a painful itching feeling all over my body, my > whole body is in pain, everything hurts everywhere. It is like a > stabing itching, it just is pain everywhere, but it is different than > the deep aching pain i normally feel. It is this stabing - likes pins > all over my body. > > I cant say that I never felt this prior to when i took lycira, but > after i took lycria for 3 days, this seems to have been worse at > night... This is interesting, Jamie, cuz Lyrica is supposed to *calm* hyper-excited neurons in the brain and it sounds to me like it's doing the opposite to you. This has happened to me with tons of medications lately - I get a paradoxical reaction and the symptoms the medication is supposed to help actually become intensified. Lyrica is most often prescribed to help with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (pins and needles feeling that Diabetics get, mostly in their limbs) and Post-Herpetic Neuralgia (pain after shingles go away). Both feel basically like what you are describing, I think. Telling your doctor it feels like pins and needles over your whole body is a GOOD description. Is it kinda like the feeling you get when your hand or foot "falls asleep" and then it starts waking up again? Sounds like it. Anyway - POOR YOU!! Sounds horrible. Hope your doctor can help you figure it out. Take GOOD Care, Jane
From: acoftil on 6 Mar 2006 18:44 On 6 Mar 2006 12:44:03 -0800, "Jamie Dolan" <jamiedolan(a)gmail.com> etched permanently into the ether: >last night I had to take 1 hydrocodone, 1 robaxin, 1 vermeperal, 2 >clonazopam, 75mg benedryl, then i still could not get the pain >undercontroal after a while, and i had to go back and take 1 >hydrocodone, 1 robaxin, 25mg benedryl, 1 clonazopam, 650mg tylenol. Let me digress a minute. The new medication is a possibility. The fact that you may be having a paradoxical reaction is possible. I thought of something else. If you were ADD or ADHD, and a child, they would prescribe a stimulant, as stimulants calm down children. If you gave that child Ativan, for example, that can make the child way over active. Could something similar to that be going on? WARNING--Controversial pain material below When I'm in such pain and I have no more options, I make options. For example, to knock the pain down, I'll chew up a half or whole vicodin and take the pills you listed. That should knock it down to a bearable level for about 4 hours. So, at 4 hours (not the lying 6 hours the doctors tell you), I'd take another cocktail, but not chewing anything up--just trying to keep the relief you have. Can you use Klonopin as a sleep aid? That might also help while you wait to see a doctor. Well, my cats want food--silly cats! LOL Hugs, Nancy :) to email me, remove the Z
From: Jamie Dolan on 6 Mar 2006 21:29
It seems different than when my arm or leg falls alseep. THis is much more pain ful. this literlly feels like a syringe is being stabed into me in various parts of my body. I physically keep jumping from place to place because the level of pain is so severe and it startles me so much. So yes in a way it is like what you are talking about, but much much more sevre than the leg or arm falling asleep. I just tried taking a nap, and it happened again... jamie |