Looking for Advice and Experience

[AClark]

I use Gabapentin to ease up the nerve pain, it's an off label use but it does seem to work. My doc was looking at maybe Lyrica but I'm not sure about it yet. It's basically the only way I can sleep halfway comfortable without waking up to burning nerves when I bend my elbow.

Do you have a link to the wire you're using? I'm trying to picture it, I think it's similar to the horse wire I get, but it's only 4' tall.

 

[NH homesteader]

My brother uses Gabapentin for a bad shoulder. Works great, he says. You are all tougher than me, doing all this fencing with all that pain! My DH does most of it. Not because I don't want to, because every time I try I "mess it up" lol

 

[AClark]

My brother uses Gabapentin for a bad shoulder. Works great, he says. You are all tougher than me, doing all this fencing with all that pain! My DH does most of it. Not because I don't want to, because every time I try I "mess it up" lol

Dh definitely helps me. I try to get him to slow down a bit as he had back surgery less than a year ago. We're both beat up, lol.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I don't have a pic of it, but it is Redbrand wire. I haven't gotten that far yet to get a roll....the CoOp has it for $70-75/100' roll just like the welded wire, but woven or knotted.

 

[NH homesteader]

DH grew up on a horse farm. His mother and sister (who still has horses) are beat up pretty badly from years of riding, training, etc. I think he's happy to be a relatively strong and healthy goat, pig and poultry farmer lol!

 

[AClark]

I think woven probably is sturdier than the welded. The horses are pure hell on the welded wire.

DH grew up on a small farm, chickens, pigs, etc. He's never been around horses much, but he really adores them. The only thing he's broken was an ankle. I've broken both arms, a leg, ankle, hip, ribs, and collar bone. If you ride horses long enough, accidents happen.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I use Gabapentin to ease up the nerve pain, it's an off label use but it does seem to work. My doc was looking at maybe Lyrica but I'm not sure about it yet. It's basically the only way I can sleep halfway comfortable without waking up to burning nerves when I bend my elbow.

Do you have a link to the wire you're using? I'm trying to picture it, I think it's similar to the horse wire I get, but it's only 4' tall.

Mine are valium and demerol, I used to take flexeril, but changed it to valium.

 

[AClark]

I don't find muscle relaxers to help at all, I have a bottle of Baclofen from when I tweaked my back last year and they didn't help. I had flexeril first but they didn't really do anything for it.

Now demorol, that's a biggie. I just get "ranger candy" 800 mg ibuprofens.

 

[CntryBoy777]

My left knee is so messed up and deformed from arthritis and with the pinched nerves and left foot, when I go to the Doc he just asks what I want. I don't want more than I need, and I make 30 pills last for 90 days, so he knows I'm not jerking him around, too. I do go thru a box of 50 green BCs about every 2wks.

 

[Latestarter]

Aint we just a bunch of pill poppers huh? I had my doc write a scrip for oxycodone. 20 pills and I still have some after ~6 months. Have to be in pretty bad pain to take them and it's mostly when the arthritis in the hand and wrist is so bad I can't use it. The doc understands I'm not a druggie and if I need them, I really need them. Flexiril doesn't do squat for me. Was prescribed it for back muscle spasms and it was worthless. I now have cyclobenzaprine (muscle relaxer) and 1 makes me tired, 2 will put me out with day after withdrawal (tired). That's quite a lot of BC powder Country... Aren't you worried about gastric damage?