What is the best pain killer for fibro?

I think patches work better . 

My friend has them he says there the best thing ever . He has them for fibro pain his pain is really bad and has never looked back. 

I may ask my gp but they seem to be reluctant for some reason! I have been  there loads of times crying with the pain and begging for something that works. I mentioned that my symptoms came up with polymalgia rheumatica when i put them in a search, as my worst pain over the last few months has been my shoulders, hips and knees, although my hips have been dreadful for well over a year now. I get little sleep cos the pain drives right through like a screwdriver when I lie on my side, on both sides  and when i lie on my back I wake up with pins and needles in my hands and arms and my right leg down to the knee completely numb! My elbows are stiff and painful when I wake several times too. I have an appt with rheumatologist next month and my orthopaedic consultant thinks its either polymyalgia, or rheumatoid arthritis, but my diagnosis from years ago is fibro. I asked if i could try prednisolone as its supposed to help dramatically with polymyalgia. She agreed for one week only and I could not believe the difference! I felt marvellous! I was planning on going back to work and felt so so positive! When I went back to tell gp how well it worked, she refused to give me any more until I had seen the rheumatologist! I said " but it worked so well, I felt so good". She argued that even she would feel great after prednisolone but surely that isnt the point! I felt well! For the first time in two years, even before that I was putting up with various aches and pains etc, but at least I was able to carry on working. So, I had another steroid injection on tuesday evening. That worked great for three weeks, so I am hoping once the initial pain from the injection wears off that I will have some relief until my rheumy appt on 5th sept. I know preds can have a lot of side effects, but truly I cant imagine anything worse than this pain! Most of the time my quality of life is really bad and I spend weeks at a time in bed most of the day. The last week though I have been forcing myself up and out to take my dog out as she has very little time left, I just take a lot more medication and I have to take it every couple of hours instead of 4, mostly tramadol and co-codamol. It does nothing if i leave it 4 hours but does help a bit if I shorten the time in between. I dont take more than the 8 of each a day though, its just while I am out.

Blimey your going through it a good bit . They are very reluctant yo give out the good stuff because it's nightly addictive. Co codamamol has hardly any effect on me and starts off my Dystonia do does co dryad mol and effects my bowels too . Do they are useless on me and a waste of prescription . I just take daizapam but can only get a small box a month because they are so additive but it works . The pain your talking about I can relate to I've had it all and all in one go too. You had your vit d and calcium checked lately ? Had your cortisol levels checked ? Just a thought cos as soon as I got on vit D I got less pain 

I have been on vitamin D calceous for a couple of years now. They found out i was deficient when i started to get mouth ulcers, i used to have up to ten at any one time, all around my tongue! Cortisol levels? Not sure what that is?