• Effectiveness

  Slight (for fibromyalgia)
• Side effects

  Mild (nausea)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 4 x napsylate 650 mg-100 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Darvocet didn't really help the pain and it made me a little nauseaus. We tried it before moving on to Methodone. Ultram worked great for me but I can no longer take it because I had serotonin syndrome. So we are trying a lower level drug, more similar to the ultram, to see if it helps since I'm up to morphine with no relief. It didn't. I'm trying tylenol with codeine now, for 5 days, it helps the pain a little bit for about 2 hours, but the itching is so bad and I keep getting hives. It's prescribed every 6 hrs so that's 4 hours of nothing but ithing. Benadryl helps, but then I'm tired in addition to the fatigue and it just isn't working. My pain mgmt dr. is on vacation, looks like we will be starting methodone when I see him on Tues.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: nausea

• Effectiveness

  Slight (for fibromyalgia)
• Side effects

  None
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 4 x napsylate 650 mg-100 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: nausea

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for pain)
• Side effects

  Mild (inability to drive due to medication)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Somewhat hard to take

Dosage: napsylate 650 mg-100 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Could not drive when I took a full dose. However, a one-half dose made me functional, but it soon only partially relieved my back muscle pain.

Cost: $25-49 monthly

Side effects: inability to drive due to medication