Get Informed: Pain
1 in 13 Americans have Pain
iGuard is currently monitoring more than 133,500 patients with Pain from around the United States as shown on the heat map below. These figures suggest that roughly 22.7 million Americans have Pain with men and women both being affected in similar numbers.
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Age (Years)
Medications used for Pain
Drugs commonly taken by iGuard.org users for Pain are listed below, together with the percentage of patients that take each drug.
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Commonly Used Medication Name* (Hover mouse over name to see medication class) |
% of Patients | Average Risk Rating | Has Generic Available |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advil | 15% |
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Yes |
| Tylenol | 14% |
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Yes |
| Aspirin | 9% |
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Yes |
| Ambien | 6% |
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Yes |
Less than 5%: Aleve, Ativan, Celebrex, Cymbalta, Effexor, Hydrocodone, Lyrica, Mobic, Neurontin, Oxycontin, Paxil, Prevacid, Prozac, Topamax, Ultram, Vicodin, Wellbutrin
*This list is NOT EXHAUSTIVE - Only drugs used by a sufficiently large number of iGuard.org users are listed.
**Medications are sometimes known by different brand/generic names, depending upon how they are packaged or used.
Global Patient Feedback for Pain ( Post a comment )
Question/Comment:
I take oxycontin and oxycodone for breakthrough pain. I also take soma for muscle spasms. I've had five lumbar surgeries. I've also had two nerve releases in my left leg. I have scar tissue wrapped around the nerve roots due to my back surgeries. I suffer from nerve damage. I have failed back syndrome. I have severe chronic back and left leg pain
47 year old Female
Posted: 2009-09-01 06:24:01
Question/Comment:
I have been suffering chronic pain after hit by a car 3 years ago. Sense I did not have insurance at the time of the accedent I did not get proper care and was given pain meds as my only alternative. This has been 3 yrs now and finley was able to get medicare. That is sad as I am only 41, but thought finaly I can get proper help. Boy was I mistaken. The pain managment specialest have tried facet injections in my neck and lower back, which were not helpful. They have found out that I have arthritis in my sprine that has become realy bad. My pain on most days is so bad I can not move and a headache that just doesn't quite. I currentley am taking percacet and oxycontin er. I know my body has become tolerant but the doctors say I am on the max dose I should take. I am frustrated because other meds and treatments have been unsuccesful. I read one questions that said there were days she would just go home to her maker. I truely understand that feeling. Of course the affect on my family have been hard also. My sister (a nurse) wants me to go to rehab to clean the meds out and see what my true pain level is without meds. That seems to me to be asking for torture. I would like to know what other things others have tried that I have not that live in the same pain and have learned to cope and find some kind of managment for it all. I am tired of taking pills and being called an addict by everyone. I would like any words of advise!!!
41 year old Female
Posted: 2009-08-22 17:00:56
Question/Comment:
I have severe undiagnosed chronic pain. It started in my saccrum and most of my pain is still there, but it spreads mainly to my hips and pelvic area, also down into my legs to the knee (rarely lower), and up my back, neck, and sometimes into my arms. My doctor thinks it's too severe to be fibromyalgia, but she, and a half dozen specialists, have no idea what it is. So they've completely given up trying to diagnose it and up until now have only wanted to medicate me.
I'm on Duragesic 100mcg every 60 hrs, oxycodone 7.5/325, gabapentin, and lyrica and it hasn't been working very well. Usually my only decent days, where I can function (to an extent) is the day after I've changed my patch. Even then I have breakthrough pain, but it isn't so debilitating. So my dr. switched the duragesic to morphine sulfate, and that really didn't work. My dr. admitted that she underdosed me with the morphine, but then said, "Looks like pain meds just arent' doing the trick so I think we have to take you off of everything."
I'm TERRIFIED!! I'm still in excruciating constant pain, but when I don't change my patch on time or miss a dose of my oxycodone I'm paralyzed by pain crying and praying for God to take me home! I've told her this, but she sees no other option. So I'm trying to do my own research and find other medications or treatments that may help.. better something than nothing! Does anyone have any other ideas that I can bring to my Doctor???
27 year old Female
Posted: 2009-05-27 05:56:44
Answer/Reply:
I have severe chronic back pain due to 2 failed surgeries. It took a long time to
diagnose me before my surgeries. I am now on Methadone,with 10mg. hydrocodone
for breakthrough pain. It is the best thing I have found. Everything else gets a
tolerance too soon.
I understand why you are so scared of your doctor pulling all meds. That is a
crazy idea. Have you tried a Pain Specialist Dr.? That is what my doc. is. I would
start trying to find another doc. now BEFORE this one cuts you off all meds.
Good luck,you'll be in my prayers
54 year old Female
Posted: 2009-08-07 12:00:12
Question/Comment:
i have circulation problem in right leg it swells really bad when up on it all day i use compresstion wrap to control the swelling but also have intense pain in the foot it gets real bad most of the time and i work 12 hour shifts that dont help matters at all what can i do to controll the pain in my foot asprin and ibuprofin dont help at all
45 year old Male
Posted: 2009-03-23 13:01:07
Question/Comment:
I have temporomandibular joint syndrome (tmj) in my jaw it gets so bad I can't eat,talk or think at times . And I have gone to my doctor and dentist about it ,but all they do is give me some pain pills and send me on my way they work fine for the time being but not the long run. It is getting to the point that iam starting to learn to live with this condition that runs my whole life.
27 year old female
28 year old Female
Posted: 2009-03-06 16:29:59
Answer/Reply:
Just an FYI, my daughter went to a TMJ specialist, sent there by her ENT specialist. She has neck and jaw, and ear pain.
it has been discovered she has arthritis in her jaw, and has lost bone degeneration in her jaw bone, and also in her cervical spine
suggest you get to a specialist in TMJ..as her regular dentist and medical doctor also never helped her.
62 year old Female
Posted: 2009-03-20 09:15:32
Answer/Reply:
I also have TMJ. I went to a specialist (find a pain management facility in your area or ask a dentist/md about this) and had steroids injected directly into the joint and it has worked incredibly well! For a year and a half I had absolutely no symptoms and since then I've had very very mild symptoms. My pain used to get to the point where it felt like someone shattered my face with a baseball bat! Couldn't open my mouth, got severe headaches and neckaches along with the jaw ache. Thank God I found someone who knew to do this! I hope that this helps you. Good luck!
27 year old Female
Posted: 2009-05-27 03:18:19
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