# Pain Management in a world without NSAIDS **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pain-management-in-a-world-without-nsaids/1012110 "2024-12-24T14:22:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pain-management-in-a-world-without-nsaids/1012110/41 "2024-12-27T19:20:30Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I was on Gabapentin short-term after this April’s cervical spinal work. Couldn’t tell what made me more stoned- the Oxycodone( not sure of which opiate I was on, I use that term here broadly ) or the Gaba. Again, you need to start on a low dose, and then when the wooziness abates (should be gone within a week), increase it. Still doesn’t always work, but if you start on a high dose it’s pretty much guaranteed to make you loopy. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pain-management-in-a-world-without-nsaids/1012110/42 "2025-01-16T19:26:09Z")
Superb advice, thank you. The Gabapentin were 300mg capsules. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pain-management-in-a-world-without-nsaids/1012110/43 "2025-01-16T19:32:32Z")
I know you are correct here. So easy to say, to complex to address. I’m self-aware enough ( Hey, I’m a Doper !!! ) that I know this is an addictive issue. Food for punishment, food for reward. Food for comfort, etc. 5 foot 10, 285 lbs. To even see 200 again would be remarkable. Those belly-injection-miracle-shots aren’t really to my liking, idea-wise. Yes, the people in the commercials exist at the very far end of the bell curve. It’s wicked pricey. When I can’t afford them anymore, I’ll gain back the weight and then some. There must be another path. All of this said, the Lumbar/ SI decay is directly connected to a violent spinal injury in September of 2000. After more than 20 years, payback’s a bitch. My gosh I wish I’d never gone up that ladder without someone footing it…the entire vector of my life would have shifted. Some for the better, some for the worse- so who can say? But pain-wise, it would have been lovely to have NOT broken my L-3 wide open. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pain-management-in-a-world-without-nsaids/1012110.md?page=2)