Posted by NikkiT2 on September 16, 2006, at 6:31:48
(History - nerve pain pain in right rm of vrious levels for past 12 years.. Had a setllate ganglian nerve block in march that went wrong and has left me with severe nerve pain in right rm, shoulder and neck, often now radiating into other shoulder)
I'm taking 60mg dihydrocodeine 3 times a day on average to control my nerve pain.. other meds aren't n option it seems at the moment (nothing "weaker" has worked, and tramadol sends me away with the fairies so I can't take it), but I am suffering really bad gastro side effects from the codeine.. I'm getting stomach cramps that just double me over, and switching from feeling very painfully bloated and unable to "go", to having noisy exposive diarhea.. my GP gave me some anti-spsmodics to try, but they really haven't done much.. the stomach pains wake me up atleast once a night, and I'm having to get up earlier in the morning as atleast 15 minutes of *every* moning is spent cramped over..
Does anyone know of any way to deal with these side effects? At the moment I can't work out whether its worse to b with the pain or the gastro problems.. I can go a day without taking the pain meds t weekends, but I always end up breaking down and taking them..
Any suggestions very very gratefully received..
Nikki
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