After you have applied home therapies, if your symptoms don’t improve within several weeks or months, you should discuss your concerns with your primary care physician or internist. It is important that your doctor rule out any other conditions which could be causing your symptoms.
When necessary, your doctor can prescribe stronger pain or anti-inflammatory medications, muscle relaxants, or antidepressants to help ease symptoms.
First and foremost, educate yourself. Informed patients are better able to talk with health care providers, ask questions, and make knowledgeable health care decisions. By seeking out the information on this website, you are on the road to being an informed patient and better able to help yourself.
We suggest you read through and print out our list of questions (.pdf) to ask your doctor prior to consenting to any treatment.