My teeth hurt, just got 8 crowns. I must be a keyboard warrior.
I've dealt with a ton of pain in the past year, getting a lot of serious work done on the teeth, crowns on every one [ortho fucked up my teeth with the braces, lawsuit in progress] and I've found the very best painkiller is a combo of tylenol and advil. Works just as well as most prescriptions without any wooziness or addictiveness. And cheaper.
Left knee medial ligament ruptured and cartilage damage required surgery. Right knee ACL reconstruction. Double hernia operation. Spinal fusion at L5 S1. More spinal surgery (removal of titanium metalwork) Countless steroid cortisone injections to my knees, groin, back, wrist. Fair to say that I'm in pain constantly. This is why I had to give up professional rugby, and curently cannot roll or spar. Won't give up trying till I'm back on the pitch and training MMA tho
I use to eat Advil ( vitamin "I" as we called it) like
candy to be able to train, resulted in stomach ulcers. Is
it really worth it in the long run to have to live on
pain medications to function in life?
tkayjunior, do you live in GA. and work at a GNC ?
Reading this thread makes me glad I've decided to give 99% of it up, concentrate on yoga and joint mobility for health, and train no-gi once/twice a week lightly with a friend for fun who also has the same idea.
The mystery virus that knocked me out of training for 6+ months and had left me in pain may also have something to do with it....but no, its cause I'm wiser than the rest of you :)
Tooth and eye pain are tops on the list.
Unless you fight for a living and yoga and ibuprofen don't make your pain manageable, yall should stay away from prescription pain meds as much as possible. Give everything else a chance to work first. If you haven't tried yoga, do it, it seriously changed my whole body for the better and took away my joint pain. I was about to start taking glucosamine when I started doing yoga, and ended up not having to. Ashtanga (power) yoga is the way to go, in my experience.
