It all started as a normal TMJ problem. My jaws would pop & click w/ wide opening, yawning, etc.
Over about 2 years it progressed very quickly into “internal derangement w/out reduction”. I’ve done physical therapy, bite splints ( soft & hard ), biofeedback, imagery, soft diet, liquid diet, Advil, Tylenol, Aleve, about 10 different RX NSAID’s. After all the O-T-C Nsaid’s & Rx Nsaid’s, I now have an ulcer. Then I moved onto trigger point injections weekly, occipital nerve blocks weekly. Percocet 10′s, 3/day.
OxyContin 20mgs, 2/day, Duragesic Patches, 75mcg’s, one patch/ 72 hrs., MS Contin 30mgs, 2/day.
And now currently I take Methadone 15mgs, 2/day, w/ 60 Lortab 10/500mgs for breakthrough pain.
- Author name:
- Abbie
- Publish date:
- August 14th, 2004
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- Personal Story
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- pain medication
Trigger point
- About Abbie:
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My current treatment program is 20 mgs Methadone 2x’s/day, & 60 Endocet 10/325 mgs, qty. 60 per month, for breakthrough pain. Not much else has changed.