Medications

September 9th:   Ampicillin - no improvement September 10th: Cipro and DeCongestine- no improvement September 11th: Famvir for the virus and Vicotin for pain prescribed by the emergency room.  Very little pain relief. September 15th:  The virus goes into my eye and I end up back at the emergency room because it is a religious holiday.  They locate the on-call physician and I am prescribed Acyclovir for the virus and the emergency room prescribes Percoset for pain. Approximately October 1st:  I am prescribed Amitriptyline for the pain seizures but I get the shakes from this stuff so I quit taking it after two days.  I have found PainBreak which works topically by breaking up the nerve pain buildup. The seizures stop October 13th after which the neuralgia nerve pain increases to make up for it.  I ask to try the Lidocaine ointment.  It works on my nose and cheek but I can't put it around my eye which is also on fire. I go to a new doctor, a Neurologist, on November 4th who prescribes Neurontin for me.  It appears to be taking the edge off  the pain but there is still too much pain to ignore.  I see him again in a week.   I am trying to be patient but I am running out of time trying to find something to kill the pain enough so that I can go back to work... November 19th:  My neurologist, Dr. Krampat, prescribes Sulindac for the nerve pain.  November 22nd:  I break out in a rash on my tongue so I stop the Sulindac.  I  tried Celebrex and Darvoset and all of these had no better results then aspirin for me.  Then  I am prescribed Diclofenac to try instead and it has been working well enough to go back to work and keep working.  Nothing ever makes all the paid go away... For the constipation side-effect of most of the above medications, I prefer an enema instead of taking more pills.