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Greetings. What do you say to your patients, who arent really looking for opioids, but have side effects to gabapentin, lyrica, nortyptiline and cymbalta... They do say that ibuprofen works, etc... lets take chronic lumbar radicular pain not responsive to ESIs in a 64 year old patient as an example. lets say that the patient does not want surgery or SCS trial or "anything invasive" - which I personally understand also. a lot of my elderly patients are reluctant to this, and also do not... question...
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