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[quote=Anonymous]I have been dealing with chronic pain for the past five years+.  Headaches, nerve pain, muscles, skeleton, neck, back, hips, knees, face, etc.  Mold (actually found in my house), lyme (yes I was bit by a tick), TMJ, oh my.  Fibromyalgia-like pain.  Pain is triggered by acute stress (e.g. kid's struggles), weather changes, hormones, exhaustion.

Some days are better than others, but it is a part of daily life that keeps me from exercising, living the life I want to live and it's super depressing.  Also, I look "normal and fine" on the outside and don't really talk about the pain with other people that often, which is isolating.

I have tried endless hours of PT (multiple modalities of it), CBT for a few years, functional doctor ($$$), elimination diet, brain retraining, so much money on so many kinds of therapies for the pain.  The only "preventative" drug that has helped is gabapentin, but it wrecks my short term memory and effects word retrieval, so not great at all.  Otherwise I am juggling tylenol, advil and migraine med, along with many, many types of vitamins (tumeric, magnesium, etc) that help somewhat - trying to feel my best each day.

I am at the point where I want to consider a psychiatric drug.  I have certainly had depression and anxiety as part of my soup of issues, but I have been reluctant to try an antidepressant after a failed trial of amitripaline a few years ago.

I am wondering if others who have chronic pain have had things turn around with an SSRI.  I don't think my pain is "in my head" but I do think that my nervous system is messed up and might just need to have the volume lowered.

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