what medications (if any) have helped your CRPS
Hey y’all. Am interested to hear folks experiences with medication. No pain medication has made much of a difference my pain thus far, and even when I was given dilaudid and morphine for multiple days in the hospital it didn’t make much of a difference, it mostly just made me more tired. I had a bad reaction to baclofen, — and tizanidine, gabapentin, and amytriptiline gave me other side effects. I take pregabalin, Methocarbamol, an SNRI, and a lot of supplements (all approved by pharmacist). Short term steroid packs help me slightly but I can’t do that often obviously. I’ve have had multiple lumbar steroid injections that don’t help. Obv I do ibuprofen/tylenol/NSAID cream/etc… every over the counter thing you can think of. I’m in therapy for mental health. I do physical therapy which is what has helped my CRPS the most out of everything.
I’m interested to know if any medications have made a difference for folks, or if you find meds don’t touch your CRPS either. I’m considering looking into ketamine therapy although I don’t think I’ll realistically be able to afford that or travel to it. I meet with my interventional pain clinic again next month but they don’t have much more to offer me, and neither does my PCP. Any and all advice welcome, and I understand that this is all anecdotal and I’ll always talk to a doc before doing anything different :)