Am I taking too much medication? Anyone with similar pain?

May 12, 2010

I need feedback and advice about whether I am taking too much medication and

what might be the source of the newest pain I have.

I am taking amytriptiline 25 mg 4 times a day and 50 mg once at night, Tylenol

one tab 5 times a day along with 1 Advil. Once with one tylenol, 2 vicodin. One

twice with the 1 tab Tylenol,and Ultram ER 300 mg, once in the AM.

The vicodin is the newest drug I started taking along with all the others about

2 months ago when the pain spiked and the Toradol I got from the ER and adding

another 50-100 mg of Tramadol didn't do anything to touch that pain.

I went to see my neurologist who tried me on morphine but I couldn't tolerate

it; it made me sleep or it didn't help the pain at all and made me feel dizzy

and gave me a migraine too.

He switched me to the Vicodin which is working now. I went to the GYN and the

urologist because the pain felt internal and had a burning quality to it.

The last time I had such severe pain was from a physical ailment; I broke my

arm. I thought this was due to something gynecological or urological because the

pain felt internal like back labor. It radiated down both legs and was the type

of pain that just went off the charts immediately. GYN didn't find anything and

am awaiting for results of CT scan of pelvis and abdomen from Urologist.

I have suffered with chronic pain and Fibromyalgia, spinal stenosis, herniated

discs, TMJ, shoulder impingement, and chronic fatigue for the last 10 years. It

has gotten slowly worse and worse. Usually the pain builds slowly and then

worsens over a period of at least an hour or two. This most recent pain didn't

do that and within 5 minutes I went from feeling it to being overwhelmed by it.

I found the pain was preventing me from being able to walk also. I wasn't able

to take any but the slowest and smallest of steps and that took all of my mental

energy.

I have tried pain specialists but they all seem to disappoint me as they want to

take me off my medications and say that it is all a matter of mind over matter.

It is either that or they just give up because they see that what they are

prescribing isn't helping at all and they don't want to prescribe more.

I also have severe migraines and take imitrex nasal spray when I have to. The

migraines have improved somewhat in the last year or two but are still severe.

For me that means total disability, laying in a dark room for 3 days instead of

5, and dizziness and nausea for 5 days but no vomiting. Any comments or

suggestions anyone?

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