DICLOFENAC vs MELOXICAM

Hello reddit and fellow chronic pain people. I posted on here about 2 days ago asking for help because I was in severe pain from open heart surgery I just had on top of my CRPS in my hip and chronic back pain, and they gave me tramadol which didn't help that much and diclofenace gel and told me to m

Background info i'm 19. Have stage 4 congestive heart failure (terminal illness), severe debilitating pain. I have neck pain, chest pain in the middle of my chest thats nerve pain after open heart surgery, pain in my heart area. Pain and Spasms in my back, mostly lower back. Left Hip pain from surge

First I want to preface this by saying everyone's pain is different and pain meds are a totally valid treatment. A couple months ago I finally decided to do a spinal cord stimulator for my low back and down the leg sciatic pain. And especially the severe pain in my hip from this. Four months on I ha

My doctors told me I have mild inflammation in my bladder. I can't take ibuprofen, so I was prescribed Prednisone for a while, then Diclofenac. Neither helped. I do drink around a gallon of water everyday but I will spend hours in the bathroom. Just peeing. It's usually in little spurts but everytim

I gave it about a week with some Diclofenac. 23 years later...

I have arthritis, chronic fatigue, and chronic headaches. Sometimes just walking down the hall is hard as my knees scream at me with every step. It's hard to function when my body is telling me I need fourteen hours of sleep a day. And the headache never. Fully. Stops. And I just had to listen to f

I went to the ER today after my doctor worried that I might have Cauda Equina (negative), and the ER attending suggested that I try Diclofenac to manage my nerve pain as I wait for a diagnosis (it's been a year into testing, next up are nerve conduction tests and EMGs). I told him that I had previou

Desperate for any help, i decided to try this. Supposed to give it a week. I have only used it since yesterday. It is a topical NSAID so I never bothered with it. Needs reapplication every 4 hrs in the US and not labeled for back (just extremities). It really seems to be doing something so for now I

I am absolutely going to scream! I had a vacation recently with friends where on the last day my meloxicam got packed into the bag, was unreachable and I hit a flareup mid morning. Not proud of it but I had a meltdown at some point because everything was too much and they wanted to discuss everythin

My pain doctor increased my hydrocodone from 3 a day to 4 a day. My pharmacist refused to fill the prescription. The prescription was sent to them on 10/6. They didn’t fill it. So my Dr sent it again on 10/22. Now I have 2 pills left, and the pharmacist said he needs the Dr to write out his detail

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I had to tag this as funny, in a very sarcastic way. Talk about feeling unseen. I am on meloxicam, cymbalta and Humira for my RA. Stretching, Epsom salts baths, plant based diet just in case, meditate, starting therapy, limit my caffeine, medical marijuana. I know what I forgot, ibuprofen!

Hey, all. I have chronic pain due to ehlers danlos, fibromyalgia, carpal and ulnar tunnel in both arms, osteoarthritis in my lower back, and what I think are some other issues that haven't been diagnosed. I've had pain for years and have tried everything over the counter as well as Celebrex, Meloxic

After struggling for years with doctors that either don't take me seriously, try stupid solutions that dont work or just help me learn to "cope with it" instead of working on a diagnosis i got a new primary doctor THAT ACTUALLY LISTENS!!!! I mentioned a few different things i think i could have, she

First, this is a rant and basically nothing but a rant. I'm new here and I've been reading through a lot of posts that might apply to me. I just turned 40 in Feb of this year. Memorial day weekend of 2023 my car got totaled on a drivers side impact, and I've been in excruciating pain ever since. I'v

What’s up with Pain management drs not giving out pain killers to people who actually need it? Not everyone has addictive behaviors! I just had shoulder surgery was given a script of 30 OxyContin 5s that’s it and when I asked surgeon to get it refilled I was told to go to pain management. So I go to