pain relief

[PeteB]

A half decent bottle of white wine does it for me!

 

Oh, cocodamel or silly strong ibruprofen with an antacid before!

[Big 'Ammer]

Prevention is better than cure.

 

I prescribe staff to prevent yourself getting muscular aches and pains.

 

I prescribe drink to allieviate the pain of having staff!

[Rupe]

I love co-codamol.

I also rate tramadol as a pain killer.

You do have to be aware of the side effects, and plan accordingly though.

I find that the amount required does depend on how much stretching and warming up exercises are undertaken though.

 

I took 8 tramadol a day for 6 months in 2008. It was awesome!!!!

[Treewarrior]

Am 50 and take a good bottle of red. Sleep well and eat well. Plenty of stretching.

[APC]

Painkillers do nothing for me. Prevention is better than cure. Sometimes I have a period of a few days where I will constantly stretch, like doing sun salutations etc. I can feel any pain that is present, oozing away.

 

A good stretching regime is worth spending time on. Opiates, be it codeine or morphine just bung me up, even when doing more than I'm told. I don't understand people who go "woooooo I feel like I'm floating away and my body is numb lol" when I end up backing up to last week and continuing to feel pain. But then again, people want quick fix, managing the symptom rather than the cause.

[Steve Bullman]

sports massage once a month (or more if time permits) and diazepam when needed.

[Lorry thompson]

You see therein lies half your problem- the pilates is great, but not having one of those money grabbing morons messing your back up will have helped enormously. If you do need to see a specialist, see a physiotherapist, chiropractors are responsible for a large part of remedial patients seen by physiotherapists, who-unlike chiroprators- are actually recognised as medical practitioners. Chiropractors are classed as alternative therapy, along with the likes of herbalists, reiki healers etc etc.

 

Bang on tommer I wasted money on them for ages for my back just made it worse, then an ex army medic I know said go physio. I only went once she could see my problem, gave me stretches to do and said to roll a towel place on bottom of my back when driving etc

[Ian Leach]

At the mo i take codeine phosphate, paracetamol, extra strength ibuprofen and tramodol every 4 hrs and i'm away with the fairies

 

But last time i was on tramadol some of the side affects are bad and especially coming off them withdrawal simptoms shakes cold sweats everything.

[APC]

sports massage once a month (or more if time permits) and diazepam when needed.

 

 

I take back what I said about painkillers not killing pain with me, my back went into spasm when I picked my dog up once and after falling to the floor I was stuck in a press-up position until I managed to call my mate to come and pick me up off the floor. Got prescribed vallies for that and back was soon out of spasm. Not really a painkiller thinking about it, muscle relaxant innit, but it definitely killed the pain.

[Lorry thompson]

I worry about takin painkillers because if the pain eases off il just push myself harder and make the problem worse