How to overcome neuropathic pain

Henry

I have diabetes. First time with neuropathic pain I encountered this fall. I began to feel burning as if from within. These sensations appeared unexpectedly. Sometimes, after awakening there is no pain, and it begins only after walking-especially strong in the legs and feet. But sometimes I opened my eyes and felt everything at once. I went to the doctor. He asked me to describe the pain: Asked if there was a burning sensation and tingling. conducted a checkup, then diagnosed and prescribed the medicine. I keep working. The pain is not excruciating, but very annoying and constantly keeps in suspense. Drug therapy helps to cope with it: itching and other sensations diminished, although not completely gone.

Alex

In March 2012 I got up to go to work, tried to raise my hand — and I couldn't. The legs were not obeyed either. My wife called an ambulance, and I was taken to the hospital with stroke. I've been there for over a month. When I was discharged, I was given the first group of disability. I was 59 years old. My left leg and arm are still poorly listened to. After three months of discharge began strange pain. It's like needles all over your leg, a cold in your hands that doesn't pass. That muscle in the leg and back pulls. It begins in the morning, it is necessary for me to wake up and move, and lasts all day. I had a life after stroke book, and I read there that this pain is called neuropathic. The neurologist confirmed that it is. Then began a long history of the treatment of pain, the cause of which is a defeat in the Talamusa area. I underwent a long course of therapy with strong painkillers. When I first drank the pill, in 20 minutes the pain seemed to be gone, it felt like it was somewhere far away. The effect lasted all day. Now that I'm drinking painkillers, the effect has to wait a few hours: I recently had a severe pain at 11pm, I drank a pill, and it only helped in the morning. Last summer I had an operation: put a stimulator in the spine-he has a remote control I turn on his remote or change the frequency of the current. Right after the surgery, it was better when I got home. Then I felt bad, had to reconfigure the devices several times. Now I leave the stimulator on all day and I drink pills every three or four days. The pain is not gone, but I can tolerate it. I manage to sleep with sleeping pills, and in the afternoon I try to distract. Attention is switched, but the pain on the background is not subside. If nothing changes, next summer I will do another operation-to implant a chip in talamus to stimulate the brain directly.

Emilia

My life changed ten years ago, when once I could not climb the stairs, I felt weakness and pain in my legs. I have diabetes, but it was hard to move around for the first time. I was a medic, and I realized that it was a neuropathological pain, because I had symptoms that were normal with the disease. I was prescribed a cycle of droms and somewhere in a month I began to walk normally. I had no more problems with walking, but the pains remained. As a rule, they happened in the summer. The feet were unbearable in the morning. It was impossible to lie down, to move, to get up and walk. I took the course of the dropper again, a year later the pain returned. Then the new cycle-and so three times. Then I started paresthesia, which is a sensitivity disorder. Because of the defeat of the nerves of the feet, the body was running goose bumps, limbs itch inside, all pricked. The medications I took earlier stopped helping. Neurologist has appointed me a new course of therapy, which proved to be successful. For a year now I have no pain and I can sleep again. But I have to take the pills regularly. If I forget to drink them, there's a paresthesia again. I only took the hospital once, when I couldn't get up. I had pain attacks in the mornings, so I managed to work in the rest of the time and my colleagues knew nothing about it and didn't notice anything.

Is there an effective treatment for neuropathic pain?

Medical

This is the basic technique in the treatment of neuropathic pain. Often such pain is not amenable to cupping by ordinary painkillers.

This is due to the specific nature of neuropathic pain.

Treatment with opiates though is quite effective, but leads to the emergence of tolerance to drugs and can contribute to the formation of the patient drug addiction.

In modern medicine most often used lidocaine (in the form of ointment or plaster). Also used drug gabapentin and pregabalin-effective medicines foreign production. In conjunction with these drugs are used antidepressants-sedative drugs for the nervous system, reducing its hypersensitivity.

In addition, the patient can be appointed drugs that eliminate the consequences of diseases that led to neuropathy.

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Non-pharmacological

Physiotherapy plays an important role in the therapy of neuropathic pain. In the acute phase of the disease apply physical methods of cupping or reduction of pain syndromes. Such methods improve blood circulation and reduce spasmatic effects in muscles.

In the first stage of treatment apply diodynamic currents, magnetotherapy, acupuncture. In the future, use physioprocedures that improve cellular and tissue nutrition-the effects of laser, massage, light and kinesiotherapy (therapeutic movement).

During the recovery period, physiotherapy exercises great importance. Various relaxation techniques are also used to help eliminate pain.

In the period of remission patients are recommended an active lifestyle and regular recreational gymnastics. The positive effect is provided by swimming, walking in the fresh air.

Treatment of neuropathic pain by folk remedies is not particularly popular. Patients are strictly forbidden to use folk methods of self-treatment (especially warming procedures), because neuropathic pain is caused most often by nerve inflammation, and its warming fraught with serious damage up to full Dying.

Phytotherapy (Treatment of herbal remedies) is permissible, but before applying any herbal remedy should be consulted with the doctor.

Neuropathological pain, like any other, requires a careful attitude. Timely treatment will help to avoid severe bouts of disease and prevent its unpleasant consequences.

We are dealing with chronic pain. This means that such pain, deprive us of sleep, rest and strength, will accompany us throughout our lives.

But do not give up. If you are faced with this problem, you need to continue the search for therapy that can return to the old life.

This struggle is a personal matter of each of us. This means that even if a certain treatment helps your friend, in your case it may be ineffective.

Pay attention to the following therapies that may be helpful:

Medical treatment. Medication treatment cannot guarantee the 100% disappearance of neuropathic pain. Nevertheless, it is worth trying different medications, for example, steroid anti-inflammatory drugs or other medical products that your doctor will recommend.

Physiotherapy: massage, cold and hot compresses. This can bring a good result. Also, you can help and active physiotherapy - exercise.

Surgical intervention. A medical professional may consider having surgery to find the problem area, eliminate the problem and relieve you of pain.

Neurostimulators also give hope for the restoration of the patient’s high quality of life. Their function is to send light electrical impulses to the epidural space of the spine.

Thus, severe pain gives way to a light, almost imperceptible, tingling.

Neuropathic pain is a fairly complex phenomenon and there are a large number of ways to treat it.

Therefore, it is best not to be limited to one type of treatment, but to try different types of therapy. This will help you find the type of treatment that best takes into account your individual characteristics. As a result, you will be able to return to an active and interesting life, in which there will be no place for pain.

Treatment of neuropathy by folk remedies

When neuropathy sciatic nerve can apply massage rubbing turpentine and camphor oils, which have a warming effect. After this massage in 10-15 minutes rubbing vodka. Then wrap the whole leg for 2-3 hours.

Good help compress with "triple" colognes or Denaturata. After rubbing the wrap and go to bed, will need 10-15 daily treatments.

Treatment of neuropathy by herbal fees

It is known that neuropathy is not an independent disease, it arises because of another chronic ailment. Often people have bad legs, numb hands. This means that neuropathy has struck the peripheral nervous system, and nerves no longer transmit the brain commands to the muscles. Burning, slight tingling, goosebumps, pain at pressure is typical for neuropathy.

Many recommend three times a day for 15-20 minutes to trample barefoot on the burning grass nettle. Extremely useful are warm baths with heaps of stems and leaves of earthen pear, sage, oregano. To fill in a container on 100 grams of these grasses, to pour 3 liters of boiling water and to insist one hour. The procedure should last no more than 10-15 minutes.

Treatment of neuropathy by herbs

The root of burdock. Boil for 5 minutes 1 art. L. crushed burdock roots in 250 g of red wine. A little to insist and take half a cup twice a day.

Root Devalila. Cook 5 minutes 1st. L. Crushed roots Devila in 250 g of water. Insist, strain and take in a warm form for 0.5 cups twice a day for 1 hour before meals. The course is a month.

Hazel. 1 art. L. Leaves and 1 H. L. Powder from the bark of the bream to cook in 200 ml of water for 10 minutes. Cool, take 100 ml 4 times a day. The course is a month.

Dill. "My neighbours advised me to treat neuropathy of the sciatic nerve. It is necessary to warm up well in the sun and then to take dill baths. For preparation of a bath 1 glass of dill seeds to be steamed in boiling water and to pour out, filtering through a strainer in a bathroom with warm waters. This procedure should be repeated every other day for 20 minutes. On the 10th day everything went away and I was cured. "

Rosemary Tincture. Rosemary leaves pour vodka (covering raw), insist 3 weeks in a dark place, sometimes shaken. Then and rub this tincture sick areas of the body.

Infusion of spicy cloves. In the container, best in a Thermos with 1st. L. Dried clove, possessing antioxidant properties, pour 600 ml of boiling water and insist 2 hours. You need to eat at least 15 days 3 times a day for 200 ml break 10 days, then treatment repeat. The course is 6 months.

The Ginkgo biloba infusion. 4 art. L. Crushed dry ginkgo biloba leaves to fall asleep in a thermos, pour 1 liter of boiling water and push for 3 hours. Drink for a drink during the day.

Treatment of neuropathy Calendula

A short story about the treatment of sciatic nerve, which delivers a lot of suffering to the military officer is an example of the fact that folk medicine still helps in the treatment of ailments. A man suffered for a long time with this disease, he had to even quit because of this from the ranks of the army. Especially the disease was known when driving and physical exertion, not letting neither sit nor stand. He was told to be treated with Calendula.

Tincture recipe: 2 St. L. Marigold Flowers insist in 400 ml of boiling water for about 2 hours. Strain and drink half a cup four times a day before eating. Drink to the disappearance of symptoms and complete recovery.

If there are drugs that can treat neuropathological pain well, why are they not assigned to patients?

If there are drugs

The problem is that doctors and patients do not understand why patients suffering from pain should prescribe complex psychotropic drugs. In this sense, it is good that the annotations to the new drugs (neurotin) indicate the indication in the form of neuro-pathological pain. and the task of the doctor includes not only the appointment of the correct drug, and an adequate explanation to the patient-for what this drug is assigned.

These drugs have undergone clinical research in America and Europe and are in the first place in the treatment of neuropathic pain. Further prospects of development of medical science are connected with the fact that preparations will be developed specifically for treatment of neuropathic pain. Regardless of their etiology.

The patient's personality is important in the treatment of neuropathic pain. Long-term current pain can change the psychological state of the person. An integrated approach is important here. Non-pharmacological methods such as acupuncture, massage and psychotherapy are important. The patient needs complex rehabilitation. But first of all, a person with neuropathic pain needs an effective anesthetic therapy. If habitual means do not help, then it is necessary to appoint the new effective preparation, explaining to the patient the reason of its appointment.