I've been taking Darvocet N-100 for about 3 years now for fibro pain. The pain has been so severe lately that I'm lucky if the Darvocet takes the edge off. Has this happened to anyone? I'm wondering if I need to move to different or stronger pain pill. I hate taking them, but there's no way I can get through a 45 hour work week without something...and Tylenol and Advil give about as much relieve as a gumdrop does. I take trazodone for sleep and it's not working as well either. I think I've been taking that for about 2 1/2 years. It takes me forever to go to sleep and I'm starting to do the jerking movements in my sleep which as all of you know...wakes me up and I have to start all over again:(

Hello
I tried Darvocet for my fibro pain also it done nothing for me either. That was before I got to see my doctor about fibro before I got diagnosed. I ask him about muscle relaxers and he said I need to try Lyrica. So that is what I did and I have no pain but I have noticed some weight gain. But I can handle putting on some weight as long as I'm not in that terrible pain. So if you haven't tried it you might want to give it a try. Good luck. Hope you find something that works for ya.

Hi to you... I have been in pain now for 12 years with Firo... and have taken every thing now from who knows what.... but the latest drug of choice is Lyrica.... and I must say is that It WORKS!!!!! its been a year now and Lyrica is still doing the Job. So I say give it a try... and good luck
Kimmie-Kat

sherry just wanted to comment on what you said about the sleep med not working and you can't fall asleep. I also take a sleep med (ambienCR) and sometimes I go through stages when it doesn't work. It is not necessarily the medication though it is usually me. I am either in a flare and can't relax enough for the med to work or eating or drinking something that counteracts the effort of the med. I have found that an extra muscle relaxer helps with the jumping muscles and inability to relax and that helps the sleeping med to work and I don't wake up and need to toss and turn. I take 20mgs. of baclofen at bedtime anyway and my doc agrees with the extra 10mgs when necessary to get to sleep. He actually wants me to take the 20mgs 2hrs. before bedtime and then if necessary take the other 10 at bedtime.

Glojer

I have a sugestion on falling asleep I useto take Trasadone and kolonapin before I went to bed and now I have stoped that and I started going to bed while lisinting to relaxation music I would be asleep withing 10 to 15 min. just try it out it might work for you too.:confused:

I have a sugestion on falling asleep I useto take Trasadone and kolonapin before I went to bed and now I have stoped that and I started going to bed while lisinting to relaxation music I would be asleep withing 10 to 15 min. just try it out it might work for you too.:confused:

I don't take any meds any more so the sleep thing was a bad thing but Pulskaki has a point. It wasn't music for me though (I tend to mental stay with the music, you'd have to be that way to get that:D) but for me it was relaxation sounds from things such as rain storms, brooks, frogs, or wind chimes(my personal favorite). Works wonders for me. Like Pulskaki said, it can't hurt.

SherryRenee - hi again. I feel so badly for you that your pain meds are not "doing it" any more. Darvocet is the same or similar to Percocet and Oxycontin, right? I can so identify. You are in the situation I was in for the past 10 years - working long grueling hours, more and more all the time, and yes, the only way I managed was by taking pain meds. And yes, I kept needing more and more for the same effect. It was not necessarily that the pain was worse, I needed more meds to do the same job. (and by the way, I finally said "uncle" year and a half ago, I'm not working). :(

Maybe when you get to talk with the rheumie (today?), there might be a more disease-related medication that will help, if for example, you do get another diagnosis to add the the Fibro. So if you have Lupus, for example, some additional biologics etc. might target the disease itself, and the pain might be reduced as a result, and then the Darvocet would work better.
Sometimes meditation, visualization, and relaxation tapes (I like the nature sounds too Pulskaki) help me to relax, bedtime or other times. If you want details about that, let me know and I'll post more about it.
Good luck with your appointment,
Wishing you peace and comfort,
Paddy

darvocet is not even close to percocet or oxycontin. darvocet is so weak that it really isn't even considered a "narcotic". percocet and especially oxycontin are very strong and EXTREMELY addictive!! oxycontin alone has destroyed thousands of lives and the maker (purdue pharm) is paying out 600 million in lawsuits. these drugs will take you down a road that you do not even want to think about. oxycontin is for severe pain, such as cancer pt..s, it is not for everyday aches and pains! and oxycontin IS percocet--just in a slow release form. believe me, i know how bad fibro pain can get, but it's not worth a soul stealing addiction that oxy leads to.

My doctor gave me flexiril to take at night, and it is helping the darvocet work better:)

I'm waking up now because my alarm clock is going off and not from pain which is a huge improvement. Still having to take Darvocet, but nearly as much as i was. thanks for the support!