What’s the best pain medication you have ever tried?

[Anonymous]

How long did it continue to provide pain relief? What were the downsides?

[Anonymous]

Naproxen 500mg. I don’t know the downsides because I only take it when I can’t power through or have something I need to do. I find if I take medication too often it loses its effectiveness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long did it continue to provide pain relief? What were the downsides?

Everyone, virtually everyone reacts differently, hence the constant trial and error.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Naproxen 500mg. I don’t know the downsides because I only take it when I can’t power through or have something I need to do. I find if I take medication too often it loses its effectiveness.

You use Naproxen to power through hard things you need to do?

[Anonymous]

Naproxen is Aleve but in a lower dose. The stuff is an anti-inflammatory, an NSAID. I'm a fan of Meloxicam for my arthritic knee pain or other sports-type joint pain.

[Anonymous]

Epidural. Downside was numbness and inability to walk until it wore off.

[Anonymous]

Non-narcotic? Voltaren. The pill, not the cream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Naproxen 500mg. I don’t know the downsides because I only take it when I can’t power through or have something I need to do. I find if I take medication too often it loses its effectiveness.

You use Naproxen to power through hard things you need to do?

Yes, I’m in chronic pain but deal with it in many non-medication ways. I like to have a happy stomach.

[Anonymous]

Oxy after a 10 hour brain surgery.

Downsides - I was in a daze of complete stupidity, got very thirsty, had wild hallucinogenic dreams, and my abdomen was itchy as feck constantly because I had an allergic reaction to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Epidural. Downside was numbness and inability to walk until it wore off.

Oh man. The sweet relief of the epidural and telling the witchy midwife to F off about it. My epidural was perfect - got rid of the pain but I could still feel to push and walk right after.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Non-narcotic? Voltaren. The pill, not the cream.

Is that also OTC?

[Anonymous]

500 mg tylenol with 200 mg ibuprophen
It gives me 8-12 hours of pain relief (post surgical)

[Anonymous]

Morphine.

No idea how long it lasted, but it was amazing and I knew I would become an addict if I kept it up.

[Anonymous]

Oxy. After TKR. Problem is you have to get off it fast.

[Anonymous]

Oxy. Only had 2 doses after a surgery. Felt so weightless and glossy. Totally understood immediately how people get hooked on it. Problem was, had to write a brief while on it….that was hard. My brain was not working.