From Fatigued to Fantastic by Jacob Teitelbaum

Author:Jacob Teitelbaum
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2007-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

PRESCRIPTION PAIN CREAMS AND LOTIONS

Many people with fibromyalgia also have a few painful body areas that are especially distressing but they shy away from taking pills, as they are sensitive to prescription drugs. That’s why I often recommend topical pain lotions. After two weeks of use, you can actually get the same tissue concentrations in the local muscles and tendons topically as you can when taking medications by mouth—without the side effects. Many compounding pharmacies make these topical pain gels/lotions/creams (regular pharmacies are usually not familiar with them), and they are happy to guide your physician. I like to use ITC Pharmacy (see Appendix E: Resources). Simply ask your doctor to call them to prescribe the pain lotion or if you have nerve pain, the nerve pain lotion. These typically include five to six pain medications. By rubbing a thin layer of the lotion or gel into the skin over painful areas, you can often eliminate your worst pain spots. Sometimes using these products for seven to fourteen days in one spot will relieve the pain, or even make that area of pain go away permanently—and then you can march through other pain spots, eliminating them a few at a time. You can use these products on up to three or four silver-dollar-size areas at a time, three times a day. The cost is approximately sixty-six dollars for a 30-gram tube, which lasts quite a while. For a more detailed discussion of the many topical pain options available (and other pain issues), see my book Pain Free 1–2–3.

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