I have fibromyalgia, degenerative disc and joint disease, spinal stenosis , migraines, i'm on vicodin 5/525 but am never out of pain. it's wearing on me and my dr. refuses to increase the vicodin. what do i do?

See pain specialist.: Some drs. Specialize in treatment of pain. Using only vicodin to treat your pain long term is not a good plan, you need multimodal therapy that uses things like spinal block, physical therapy and etc.

Talk about other rx: Discuss with him alternative treatment methods like exercise and physical therapy, weight control, smoking cessation, use of other medications and combinations of them, pain management intervention, sleep and nutritional habits. Just increasing the vicodin will not be a long term solution.

First do no harm: Your physician is not ignoring your pain. Pain medications have risks that must be weighed against the potential benefits. In the setting of fibromyalgia, there is no proven long term benefit with use of narcotics. There are many safer non-narcotic medications that may be worth a try. Even with the best pain medications, your goal may be to reduce pain, not eliminate pain.