[ SECRET POST #3072 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3072 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Old Habits of Yours that Now Make You Cringe?

[philstar22]

Can I ask you what you recommend for cramps when the Doctor won't prescribe something stronger and I have pain so bad that I can barely move and the only thing that even keeps the edge off is taking 800 ibuprofen every six hours? I mean, I don't love taking that much, though I've never had a problem. But naproxen doesn't work for me and my doctor doesn't believe in prescribing anything stronger for "just periods."

Re: Old Habits of Yours that Now Make You Cringe?

[elialshadowpine]

There's a medication that a doc I had back east (lovely woman, and when I came back and told her that the rheumatologist she had referred me to said she "didn't treat fibro", and my option was pain management, and told her that I did keep up with research on fibro, so anytime something else came out as a potential treatment, I printed out what I could access from medical journals; she at one point thanked me for it, because it helped her better treat her other fibro patients, when she didn't really have the time -- she'd just had a baby -- to keep up on a specific condition that by rights the rheumatologist should have taken over treatment of) put me on for the debilitating cramps I got on Yasmine/Yaz. Let me see if I can find it. Aha. "Mefenamic acid", aka Ponstel. It's like a super-anti-inflammatory, and should only be taken 3 days out of the month. I usually only got 3 bad days so that was enough for me; I don't know whether that'd be true for you.

Otherwise, there are stronger alternatives, like ketoprofen, which used to be OTC, a relative of ibuprofen. You may have better luck asking about these specific meds vs. "something for pain", which most doctors are going to read as "opiate hunting". Mobic and Voltaren are also stronger options. IMO, nothing worked as well as the Ponstel for cramps, though.