[leejoseph]

I have been addicted to opiates from years of incidents with my back. But now im 40 with permanat back hip leg pain. I have 13 bad disk some worse than others.Im on suboxone so i can only take motrin and tylonol for pain. I never stop moderatly hurting. Sometimes some pain from a few disc in my neck but always from my lower disc. I throb hurt and ache from my belly button down never stops. It does get worse at times. But im having energy issues now. I go do a little something and with the pain it jsut drains me.I have been getting blood work and hert test thinking something is killing me im so tired. So far my test have came back good can pain cause major fatige and tiredness.
?

[January]

Pain can make you very tired and weak. I wish you the best.

[lizardlady]

echoing what Jan said... ongoing pain can be exhausting

[Skeezyks]

Hello leejoseph: The Skeezyks has a ruptured disc in his lumbo-sacral spine with sciatica down both legs. There have been times when he could not get out of bed to go to the bathroom. So he has some idea of what you are struggling with. He sends you his best wishes...

[ZypCzyk]

Oh yes, chronic pain is not only exhausting and depressing but can be deadly over time.

Having constant pain is a terrible burden on your body and brain and causes all kinds of imbalances in your biochemistry. It's a known health hazard and I'm surprised your physician isn't trying to find some way to ease your pain.

There are non-opioid medications that can ease pain, like antidepressants (they can help physical pain too) or antiepileptics/anticonvulsants like carbamazepine, valproic acid, and lamotrigine (seem to prevent overactive firing of the nervous system).

From the NIH PubMed research: "The antiepileptics gabapentin and pregabalin have become the mainstay of treatment for various neuropathic pain syndromes, owing to their ability to inhibit neuronal hyperactivity along the pain pathways."

None of these drugs work as well as opioids for most people, but they're worth a try when opioids aren't an option.

Letting your body be in pain all the time is an assault on your health and can take years off your life (which can be a blessing if the pain becomes bad enough),

If you are skilled enough at it, meditation can also reduce your pain and is becoming a very popular "pain treatment" these days.

[fishin fool]

I feel for you, I have been there myself with 2 lumbar spine surgery
and one cervical spine surgery where they put a plate and screws in
my spine. I can't imagine 13 bad discs.
One thing I know for sure is that pain can be exhausting.

[Nammu]

Another here with plate and screws in the spine. I'm fortunate in that the surgery almost eliminated the pain. Ive permanent nerve damage. I've also had many, many spinal injections. Pain is exhausting and for me made me quit irritatable as well.

[speckofdust]

Yes, chronic pain is physically and emotionally exhausting! Especially in a world where the expected answer to the overly used question, "How are you?" is "Fine."

[Misterpain]

Pregablin is a vicious addicting drug that many people are put on and find its increasing there pain as time goes bye, it also takes a prolonged amount of time to wean off , I have friends who have been at it for 1 1/2 years trying to foment off it but the discontinuation syndrome is worse than what it was supposed to be helping with, there are currently lawsuits in the works against the drug and it's parent company. As a rule of thumb I will not take patented drugs until after they go generic if they are lawsuit free and all the real world side effects are known ( big pharma likes to exaggerate the benefits and under report the side effects ).

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Originally Posted by leejoseph

I have been addicted to opiates from years of incidents with my back. But now im 40 with permanat back hip leg pain. I have 13 bad disk some worse than others.Im on suboxone so i can only take motrin and tylonol for pain. I never stop moderatly hurting. Sometimes some pain from a few disc in my neck but always from my lower disc. I throb hurt and ache from my belly button down never stops. It does get worse at times. But im having energy issues now. I go do a little something and with the pain it jsut drains me.I have been getting blood work and hert test thinking something is killing me im so tired. So far my test have came back good can pain cause major fatige and tiredness.
?

I know that pain can make you tired and weak, Take care of yourself and rest all you need

[Misterpain]

Chronic pain and fatigue kinda go hand to hand , think this way you own a building with a battery operated alarm, because of the alarm going off constantly from bad weather very soon it stops because it's out of battery power, your body is the building, pain is the alarm and it keeps ringing even though no actual emergency, your pain is undoubtedly affecting your sleep, and that damn alarm keeps going of, and bingo you are fatigued from both being awake and having your rest interfered with, unfortunately science is at a loss on how to give you back pre injury vitality, and chronic opiod dependence strips you of alot of "reserve" power, my suggestion would be see if your Doctor would be willing to rotate your opiate to something else and have a holiday, this frequently will help.

In my case I take Fentanyl and Oxcycodone for breakthru pain know that my rescue drug and rotation drug if I need a holiday is Damerol because it's a different class of opiate and I am therefor "naive" to it. So if you're doing suboxone there are less options but still options none the less, to help you feel better. Pain is a very draining thing physically as well as emotionally, how is your level of depression? Chronic illness causes depression in 99% of patients, the amount it affects your day to day life and ADLS is unique to everyone of us (( knowing it's there, is half the battle)).

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