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I.  Don't be in a hurry to get out of pain!  The medications
that most successfully reduce neuropathic pain in terms of
reducing pain severity, the quality of pain relief and
durability of relief ALL take time to work.  An expectation that
they will work like commonly used pain relievers (opioid
medications: such as vicodin, codeine, etc) will result in
PROFOUND DISAPPOINTMENT and more importantly may cause you to
prematurely put aside one of the few medications that can
produce long-term profound pain relief.  In other words an
expectation that they will work like other common pain relieving
meds will "burn" (cause you to reject) a drug that might--if
used differently with different expectations—have been very
successful.  This is for several reasons:  1)   Unlik