Up date on meds... went to my regular doc yesterday and we discussed my pain issues... NSAIDS are bad for people with high blood pressure at the rate I was taking them. Aleve was fantastic but I gained ten pounds in water weight just around my ankles. I quit taking them before surgery and lost ten pounds. I was in major pain for about three days and then it tapered off. Till Tylenol could handle the peaks.
But I was still left with pain at night.... from inflamation which is what NSAIDS are best at. Which kept me awake with my knees screaming at me.... Add in to that Diabetic nerve pain which is in its onset... my feet... icepicks pryingb at my knees and needles prying at my feet... Till the point where I was rubbing my feet raw up against each other trying to stop the pain.
Doc prescribed
Gabapentin.... Which is a cousin of Lyrica... its an anti seiesure med... but its also used to calm nerve ends... First night NO KNEE or foot pain.... For the first half of the night... By morning pain was back but I had a good nights sleep.
Not to worry its something that has to be taken daily and as I get accustomed to it the dose increases up to three caps a day.... it builds up in your system.
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Hi Deb! I've been on Gabapentin for years for neuropathy. I was able to get away with just morning and evening for a long time but the neuropathy finally progressed to where I now must take 3X most of the time. Works well for me and I have no problems with it to speak of unless I forget to take it. Then I'll have a crazy mood swing. Wish they had warned me about that. Thought I was going thru menopause again (or worse) until I connected the dots! My poor DH thought I had went Jeckle and Hyde on him!
Doesn't get rid of symptoms entirely for me but that's ok, the level is livable. (I also still deal with the bone pain connected to the CML) I know my onc would increase my prescription if I asked (he has offered) but I don't like the way it messes with your brain chemistry and besides, take more than I need now and it may not continue to work for me later as the neuropathy progresses. (neuropathy for me is a side effect of the Leukemia and the drugs I had to take to control it which were also what damaged my pancreas causing the T2 diabetes which also causes neuropathy, you get the picture)
IDK?
