Quote Originally Posted by FakeBoobsRule
Haven't you taken nortriptyline? Same as pamelor. If you dfid how long did you take it?
Oh! Yes I have tried nortriptyline, I forgot about that one. It put me in a great mood, only slightly alleviated the pain. Thus far Lyrica (pregabalin) has been best for the nerve pain.

Orthopedic surgeon specializes in muscles, bones, joints, nerves, tendons, ligaments, spinal column, sports injuries, broken bones, torn knee ligaments, torn rotator cuffs, broken backs, deciding your physical therapy. AKA: bonecrushers. This is what you need and if you live in a town with a major sports team or college sports team find out who their group is and get with them if you can't get a good recommendation from someone. Here in America you will often find a large group of orthopods and each one specializes in a certain area of the body so the whole group has every joint covered. Hopefully you live near a CFL team and you should find out who they use. If your injury was sustained from being thrown or throwing someone, an orthopedic surgeon who treats football players probably has seen your injury before.
It's not quite as simple as being thrown, that was only the first of 3 injuries that snowballed into a more complex condition (as described above). But I will ask my doctor about an orthopedic surgeon, thankyou!

You may well be in need of physical therapy.
I've tried physical therapy, never fixed anything. I continue to do the same excercises from physio at home, with some intense strength-training, and it actually makes me feel somewhat better. But as with every treatment I've ever tried, the symptoms are only temporarily (a few hours) alleviated, and to smaller and smaller degrees.

I edited my first post and I bet you didn't see my question on corticosteroids, not to be confused with anabolic steroids.
Yeah, I did miss that. I've pestered my doctors so much about getting cortisone injections, and they all say "well that really is something a specialist should order." The specialists never do though. I just wish I had one doc with the balls to go out on a limb and actually attempt to fix me!

You should take your time release pain medicine round the clock. I'm not familiar with Zytrim's dosage forms (I know about tramadol just not Zytrim although I'm sure it has an American counterpart) so what is the strength, how many do you get a month, and what are the directions on taking them. For instance if it is 75 mg three times a day and you are given 90, you should take them every 8 hours whether you have pain or not. It is easier for the medicine to work if you don't wait till you have "breakthrough" pain.
Zytrim has 150mg of tramadol in one pill, slow release. I'm supposed to take one a day, and I usually do, but it's really insufficient and gives me half-assed relief, sometimes barely any relief.

Gabapentin=Neurontin.
Quite right, I forgot about that.

Keep taking the Lyrica every day no matter how you feel that day and don't give up on it for at least 3 months.
I take 2 every single day as prescribed, never ever miss a dose. It has helped massively for the arms and legs, just doesn't do a thing for the neck, back, and spine.

You may want to start back on the celebrex or an NSAID and give them time to work too. Don't expect results overnight.
I was on celebrix for 2 or 3 years. It worked fantastically in the first year, but after a while it worked less and less until not at all. Even after I stopped for 2 years, when I tried it again it still didn't work. When it did work, years back, the very first pill was major relief. But my symptoms seemed to have grown more complex and changed somewhat. Muscle tension isn't an issue most of the time, it's the inflammation all over my body.