I am seeing a rheumatologist this week and am hoping for the possibility of a prescription for some of the self injecting pain relievers. Because of the Opioid problem, my regular doctor will only prescribe 12 Vicodin a year, which just isn’t sufficient when I need it. I may not need it very often, but might need one 4 days in a row. I have been taking Vicodin for 40 years and used to get a prescription of 60 a year, which I never abused. Sometimes my back will go into a spasm so severe… read more

And yet not a single reference anywhere to treating pain with narcotics? Has the "opioid crisis" turned the entire medical establishment into a bunch of scurrying chickenshits? My pain is so constant and severe that I would have killed myself years ago without the relief afforded me by a range of prescription painkillers.

Does anyone else have shoulder pain? It started a week ago.
I don’t remember doing anything that hurt it.
I can move it and use it but sometimes I get an awful pain. My arm also feels weaker than usual and shaky.
I know AS can affect the shoulder but not sure how common or what the symptoms are like.

Thanks

I started on 9 tabs a day for nerve damage in my feet but as diabetes is under control i am now on 4 tabs a day with codiene as needed for my back, recently my back has got worse and i am waiting to see a pain nurse in october. Does gabapentin help with back pain ???