Hello everyone, found this old thread as guess what? I am in pain. In general I have been doing very well with pain. New doc and new meds and responsiveness when I have flare ups. I discovered toradol which helped with my last flare up with sciatica. I saw a rheumatologist who answered all of my questions effectively and scared me properly about methadone and overdose. It stores in fat and women with fat can accumulate and accidentally OD. Well, I was going to speak with my doc about a regular script for break-through pain but I twisted my knee quite seriously and fell with all of my weight into the twist. Doc told me ER where the x rays showed no fracture. It is torn ligaments and spraining on inside of knee. I am in an imobilizer which helps knee but walking funny gets my lower back and sciatica going.

I did this one week ago. I am in so much pain tonight it is unreal. I can't believe how immune to drugs my body has become. I took regular meds which are a muscle relaxant I am always on, 5 mg methadone, 600 neurontin,naprosen, an extra dose on the muscle relaxant, three percoset, 5/350, and toradol. This has been spaced out over 5.5 hours and also a heating pad and just now the pain in knee and sciatica is starting to ease. I am scared about the severity of the knee.

I had some testing done where I had to have sedation and pain meds through IV. When I was becoming alert again the first thought in my head was wow, I don't hurt anywhere. I have pain all of the time and just deal with it unless it screams. I also think I overdid with my leg today. Getting in and out of cars is torture with the knee by the way.

I do know a lot about pain management because of my old job but also am surprised and humbled at all I do not know. y doc has been on vacation so her colleague has given me the pain meds as I declined narcotics in the ER and asked for toradol but it just was not cutting it. It is also unsafe to be on the toradol and the naprosen at the same time but he said it's okay for a week.

This kind of pain makes me very lonely. I guess there is a fear factor here. for all of you in chronic pain I understand and I am with you. Peace