Pain Relief

Can anyone recommend pain relief other than prescription drugs, are there alternatives .....?
I use a tens machine which is fine for certain areas, unable to use this for ear and severe head pain resulting ....

Re: Pain Relief

That's a tricky one Pats CG, depends on what the cause is, might be better to deal with the cause first, then perhaps you won't need the pain relief in the first place? X

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Nothing to be done about the cause, I have these flare-ups often, this time very bad, have taken to me bed yesterday and today ....
I'll have to see what I can find out there .....

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I've never found anything other than prescription drugs that will deal with cluster headaches Pats - and I have looked. If you do hear of anything, let me know.

Hope you feel better soon x

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Have you been seen by a pain specialist? Consider acupuncture? If tens works for you acupuncture may well help.

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Hi Pats , I think it depends on the nature of the pain .
I used to have migraine and pain killers didn't help at all so I used Migril (ergot) which did and enabled me to function.

My husband had a particular kind of pain and tried TENS, a nerve block and acupuncture all of which proved to be ineffective.

One thing I have found helpful for myself and others is relaxation techniques . Because one tends to tense up in presence of pain relaxation can help and this includes warm baths, massage, aromatherapy .

Constant pain is a living hell I hope you manage to get some relief x

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Yes Meg - I have constant pain everyday from various ailments.
This pain is tremendous as its ear related and spreads to the head and jaw, even affects the teeth ! Coupled with this I'm putting up with severe neuralgia in the scalp - So past 2 days have been hell.
Hard to relax, altho' I did take to me bed ....
Acupuncture didn't work for me .....
I will probably have to succumb to prescription ......

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Sorry I can't offer you any advice or help Pats but I truly hope you will start to feel better soon ... *hug*

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used to be troubled with migraines... pain killers didn't help...the only thing that did help was lying in a warm bath with the back of my head in the water i hope you get relief soon ..as ear pain is one of the worst...probably hurts when you talk too

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I keep a wheat filled bag in the freezer that I wrap around my neck when I get a headache of any sort cooling the blood to the head seems to really help. Cluster head aches I had for a while last years and nothing even prescription drugs helped it was just a case of hanging on until they stopped naturally.