Re: Which kind of doctor should you see?...for poorkid

[Guest guest]

tell me again what exactly you are using for pain...i must behaving a

fog day and can't figure out what you said.

i did read too, fibro pain is not inflammatory which is why

rheumatologists don't treat the pain, fibro pain is due to excess

chemical p, so that is why we need narcotics for pain relief, because

narcotics cut off the pain signals getting to our brains and

registering somehow.

marg

> >

> >I have found a lot of neurologists do not know how to treat the

> illness. My case: the neurologist was willing to increase the

> ms-contin dosage to more than 120 mgs as opposed to my Internal

> Medicine doctor who said that there are " diminishing returns " with

the

> oxycodones. He said to ass the duragesic patch to the 120 mgs of

> ms-contin I take - this I found was the best advice. The way he

> explained it is that one med works to decrease the pain, the other

med

> works to increase the pain threshold. The neurolgist I saw had a

> daughter 20 years younger than me who got fibromylagia from being

hit

> by a cab driver in NYC - she could only work part-time. I can work

> full-time with the med combination my Internal Medicine doctor gave

> me. The bottom line is to find a doctor who knows how the

medications

> interact. It's been over five years and I am not addicted to the

pain

> meds but I sense if I had followed the neurologists advice, I would

> have been. Also, if you really need the narcotics, they will make

you

> feel more normal. I would be on disability if I did not take the

meds

> I take now.