If you are choosing a pain management protocol, the quick and easy option is also the one that is the most fun. Get a doctor to prescribe some pain pills. That ease the pain and make you feel light headed at the same time.

That is kind of like your doctor telling you to have a big drink of hard booze every few hours from the minute you get up to the time you fall asleep. There are some issues with this kind of pain management. First, consider the fact that every pharmaceutical drug is highly toxic.

This toxicity can create serious side effects, that start a vicious cycle, where you need other drugs to deal with the latest side effect. It often leads to surgery, debilitation and death.

When it comes to pain pills, one of the first side effects is drug addiction. You are addicted to the drug, for the pain relief and you have become accustomed to the constant head buzz. The drugs keep wearing off sooner and sooner, since you are building up a resistance, so you start taking more than you are supposed to. This is a danger sign.

If you have the belief that you could never become addicted to pain medicine because you are against drug abuse and the people who abuse drugs, perhaps you should learn about many people, from the likes of Elvis Presley to Rush Limbaugh, who found out the hard way that it could happen to anyone. Short of never taking a singe pain pill, it is naive to believe you are granted immunity from such things.

But, if you are not going to take a stance of total abstinence from pharmaceutical pain medication, it would be beneficial if you only use it as a last resort. Try to go a lot longer before you take you next dose. For example, if the time table is once every 4 hours, see if you can wait until 6 or 8 hours, and then make it longer each time, until you do not need it at all.

Pain meds do not even pretend to deal with the cause of the pain. A genuine pain management protocol will do exactly that. Pain pills numb your senses so that you do not notice the pain. They don't improve the condition that caused it in the first place. Chiropractic is a practice that is great for dealing with the cause of ailments while alleviating pain. Acupuncture falls into that category as well.

A lot of pain is due to chronic vitamin deficiency, especially vitamin D, which you can get from sunshine. You might also be low on vitamin B-12, magnesium, vitamin C, zinc, carnitine, l-tryptophan and certain fatty acids. A naturopathic or homeopathic physician can help you sort this out and help you to create a pain management protocol that is in your best interest.