A couple of years ago when I had a bad flare up; I went to the Doctor. He may have prescribed muscle relaxers etc. He also sent me to physical rehab twice a week for 6 weeks.
He told me the best thing for it was to lose weight and get more exercise. Instead I have gained weight & do less exercise. :-0
I cannot afford rehab again even if I wanted to !
I take aspirin everyday. Since last week I have added Excedrin back & body (ibuprofen & buffered aspirin). It seemed to help some but you can only take it every 6 hours. This week it is less effective. Yesterday, I added Aleve (naproxen sodium). NSAID's such as Aleve, Advil are very dangerous drugs for heart patients.
Without some pain relief I am unable to move at all !
Aspirin is still the safest, most effective for me.
Posted on May 24, 2008, 8:17 AM from IP address 74.235.242.187