Going back to the initial post now.

First off, Shaymus, I have been in places so bad the only way I could see to get through it was to be made practically comatose until something happened that could relieve my pain. Believe me on that one -- most recently it happened in mid-August, and I ended up in the psych ER over it.

Here's a little bit of advice, based solely on what helped me.

My new pdoc looked over what had been tried before, and listened to what I had to say about what I needed. He prescribed a drug for hypertension, that reduces the pressure on the blood vessels, and it has done what I was hoping it would do. It worked the very first dose i took. It's well worth discussing your problems with your doctor, in the hopes that you can get an actual hammer to pound those nails in. Larry is right about that part -- taking a drug to address a problem it is neither meant to nor capable of improving is not the way to go. Talking to your doctor about what's going on, in order to find a drug that will address that problem directly is.

Another option for you might be a low dose of an atypical antipsychotic. While the name is scary, the effects are likely to be helpful. They're often used in very low doses for anxiety and to augment antidepressants, and to reduce the jitters that some antidepressants can cause.

If your doctor does prescribe something for you, though, it's in your own best interest to take it as directed.

As for the ibruprofen, I suspect that part of your problem in getting relief from it is that you're not giving it a chance to work. There is always a lag between when you swallow a pill, and when it actually starts to work -- it has to get to your stomach, be absorbed into the blood stream, and then start to go to work. For aspirin and ibruprofen, that is usually between about 20 and 30 minutes, but it can be longer depending on your metobolism, what you've eaten, how recently you've eaten, etc. Taking more of a drug before the last dose has a chance to work isn't all that helpful. That second dose is going to take just as long to work as the first one did, so you won't get any effects any sooner than if you just wait.

Once again, I strongly urge you to tell your doctor about your "messing around" with your doses, because -- regardless of what else it will tell him -- it will alert him to the fact that the medication regime you are on now is not adequate to your needs.