I think I failed to make my question clear. My doc says that the pain of fibro is not the same as normal pain. Say, if there is a broken bone or a nail in your foot the nerve cells send signals to the brain about the condition of the tissues injured. There is a pathway full of impulses going to the brain.

With fibro, there is nothing injured in the food or leg, but and there is no series of signal impulses going up the neural pathways to the brain. It does no good to slow down the pain signals, because there are none. The brain is responding as if there are pain signals toing to the brain. The brain acts as if there is pain signals from the nerves, and therefore we feel pain even when there is no injury to our tissues.

Therefore, blocking the signals, which is what conventional pain relievers do, is useless., since the pain s not coming from the tissues, but from the brain itself. This means that a drug that deals with pain differently must be used That's why my doctor won't prescribe any conventional pain meds.

We tried Savella, but it made me so constipated that I could not tolerate it. Now he doesn't want to try any other medication. I hate the process of looking for another doctor. In my experience getting a new doctor is like rolling the dice. You may get a good one, you may not. Mostly not.

I have taken many different pain meds over the past 15years. My road on this journey started with ten years of migraines, chronic insomnia, chronic fatigue, restless leg syndrome, and extremely low iron. I was mainly on max dose of gabapentin during that time along with other meds. It worked for many years but my pain was spreading and getting worse. I had several other test done and saw more specialists and was diagnosed with fibro. They also figured out my iron issue and I started getting iron infusions. With the new expanded diagnosis they switched me to lyrica. Though I have to be on the max dose of this med too, without it I wouldn't function at all. On it I can do some exercising, which helps manage the fibro as well. I work and have a basically normal life with flare ups now and then and some constant pain but it is low level pain I can tolerate on most days. I would find a new doc.

so my docs changed me

For me, I have found that gabapentin has helped the pain tremendously. It calms the nerves that are over sensitive. I also take methacarbomal which is a muscle relaxer. The nerves get excited and cause muscle spasms. The muscle relaxer helps soothe the muscles and the gabapentin can then calm the nerves down. A nice side affect at night is that it helps me sleep.

Hear hear Bekkah! I'm lucky with my GP I think he sees the pain in my eyes.
Hugs, Katy x

Drogovska that sounds correct but I take the meds for a back surgery which I need then for that. I take gabapentin for the fibro which helps only so long. I took a long break and am on it again and it helps with my severe leg pain. However I fact day the pain meds don't help, but I am a mess with multiple issues. I've tried it all and don't know what to do some days. My body doesn't absorb anything