Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Help with IBS safe pain meds.. I have

Hey,

I can totally sympathize with you. I have bad endometriosis and the best pain meds for it by far are the NSAIDS, and I have a really hard time tolerating them. The docs gave me percocet during my last period and even it didn't work as well as a high-dose NSAID.

I don't have any really good advice, a doc recently told me to try Toradol which is a relatively new anti-inflammatory which is supposedly a little easier on the gut. I had to stop taking Naproxen which is what I took for my periods because of gut trouble and possible GI bleeding. If you do take them, just make sure to ALWAYS eat with them. It's so much harder on the tummy on an empty stomach. And don't be like me and just have like one cracker with them - not smart!

The only other thing I can suggest is seeing if you can work something out to get an injection NSAID when your arthritis is really bad. I had the Toradol injected a few times over the last few months for really bad abdominal cramping and it didn't bother me. If they inject it then it will bypass your GI tract.

Hope that helps!
Kelly

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