Painkillers... Help

natythingycolbery · Post by **natythingycolbery** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:04 pm

Hey All, I need some advice quickly.....

My Knee (hereafter known as Georgie) decided that she wanted to die on me, that is to say it felt like i was being stabbed and was completley unable to walk anywhere for a few days.

I'm just starting to get the feeling back in Georgie and it hurts a lot so need some type of painkiller, obviously the main advice I am expecting people to give me is to go the the DR's, but they actually have NO appointments before christmas (what a joke), so am going to try to get into the dr's in my hometown when I am back next week.

Also I am unable to take NSAIDs as that is what my GI believed was a contributing factor to me being 'collecting' colitis in the first place.

So basically, does anyone have any suggestions for what I could maybe take between now and a dr's appointment?

natythingycolbery · Post by **natythingycolbery** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:05 pm

Also I have put this in the wrong thread I believe, could a moderator move it if required? thank you x

Bifcus16 · Post by **Bifcus16** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:40 pm

Katy,

Without knowing what has happened to your knee, it may well be something that can be helped by physical therapy. A good sports massage person, physiotherapist or Bowen Therapist in your area may well be able to sort out why it is hurting and help. You should be able to get in quickly.

You will need to do exercises to help sort it out.

Getting rid of any swelling usually does heaps for resolving pain. An ice pack and putting your leg up actually does help - even this long after the injury. Keep the ice on for no more than 20 minutes, and at least 20 minutes but up to an hour is OK between icings. If you can get hold of old fashioned washing soda crystals, put them in a stocking and tie onto your knee, covering with something absorbent like a light towel. Wear this to bed, and when you get up it will have absorbed the moisture out of the knee, and the soda will be soggy, but the knee will be smaller.

Rub Arnica or Hirudoid in if there is bruising.

Try rescue remedy as a first resort for pain. You can also try curcumin (turmeric extract).

Fixing the knee should stop the pain, or at least bring it down to manageable.

Lyn

Post by **tex** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:59 pm

I agree with Lyn that it's better to treat the source of the pain, if possible, than to try to cover the pain with a drug.

If that fails, Acetaminophen is the only OTC painkiller that is safe for someone with MC. In the U. S., we can only buy plain acetaminophen, (Tylenol), but in Canada, the combination of acetaminophen and codeine is available OTC, and I believe it may be available in Australia, so I'm guessing that it might also be available OTC in Great Britten. That combination is probably the strongest painkiller that's safe to use with MC, and still available OTC, in many countries.

Tex

Bifcus16 · Post by **Bifcus16** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:02 pm

Certainly here in Aus I have never had trouble with Panadeine - Codeine with Paracetamol (what the US calls Acetaminophen). Works so much better than plain Panadol.

Lyn

natythingycolbery · Post by **natythingycolbery** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:27 pm

The suggestion by the GP when I rang was to take 400mg of Ibruprofen, which is all well and good when I have been told not to take them.

I have a condition in my knees called Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, it tends to come and go as it pleases, its just this is the first time it has hurt this much since I first really injured it.

I know that physio is probably the best way to go but at the moment I am in so much pain

I'm really stuggling to deal with it, just want some minor relief from it for a while so that i can concentrate on my education.

But thanks for all your help guys

I'll attempt to go buy something tomorrow.