Welcome to the chronic pain club....(sheepish sarcasm)
I use Oxy and maximum doses of Ibuprofen. It will get to your stomach eventually, but it helps and works better.
There is nothing you can do about the breakthrough pain spikes. Nothing helps with that except higher and higher doses of Oxy which will cause you huge problems when you try to reduce the dose. It is best not to go there if you can help it...Drug dependency initiates quickly....within weeks and it can turn into addiction.
Ask for OxyContin if the pain is around the clock. I will give you about ten hours or so. But you still need the ibuprofen. The Oxy will make it work better. I take four to five 200MG at a time, every 4 hours.
I take 4 tylenols with each pain pill
You should go back and read this thread, it is funny in a way
One thing I learned, evry person with a bad back always think they are the best expert
I didnt like some advice I got once, but followed it anyways, and my back went out MAJOR doing the stretch the idiot advised.
Nowadays, I always preface my advice with the comment: YOUR BACK PROBLEM IS YOUR PROBLEM, AND NO TWO PROBLEMS ARE ALIKE!!
I just wish this was NOT a workman's comp issue, I would be insisting on an MRI immediately, but since it is workman's comp, and there is a resident doctor and therapy department on the company site, I have no say!!
( until I call a lawyer and ask if I do... he he he)