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Medications and Drugs for Degenerative Disc Disease

Degenerative disc disease can cause severe back and neck pain that will potentially disable you and prevent you from living a full, happy life. When the pain of this condition becomes severe, your doctor may recommend certain medications to relieve your suffering.

The pain of degenerative disc disease can manifest itself in several ways. It can be chronic, or it may come on suddenly in spurts. It can be localized in the back or neck, or it can travel to your shoulders, hips, buttocks, and limbs. The pain also might be sharp, burning, or feel like an aching sensation. Among all of the degenerative disc disease treatment options you can choose from, medication is specially formulated to treat pain in all its forms.

Medications and drugs that your doctor might suggest for degenerative disc disease include:

• Over-the-counter pain relievers
• Prescription pain relievers and narcotics
• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (also called NSAIDs)
• Muscle relaxants
• Steroid injections

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No matter what your degenerative disc disease symptoms might be, chances are that the most devastating effect of this condition is pain. When rest and special degenerative disc disease exercises fail to ease your pain, medication might be the best choice to give you freedom from the misery you are feeling in your everyday life.

In serious cases of degenerative disc disease, no treatment is successful, short of surgery. At Laser Spine Institute, we are dedicated to providing people with gentle, outpatient procedures that are not only very successful at easing neck and back pain, but are also minimally invasive, making them much safer than open-back surgery. For more information on our revolutionary procedures like Percutaneous Endoscopic Discectomy, Foraminotomy, or Laminotomy, please contact us today. In addition to answering your questions, we also can provide you with a free MRI or CT scan review.

Please note: Laser Spine Institute currently does not perform endoscopic procedures on the thoracic spine.