>----- Original Message -----
From: "BethC" <bcann@hotmail.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Desperate
> Hi Mary Lou
>
> If you can find a good pain management center, they have many
> alternatives to treat pain. Nerve pain has many options I have seen.
> >From the TENS you mentioned to Sympathetic Nerve Blocks. Persons
> suffering from phantom limb pain have had very good success with that
> one I guess.
> Every person and their condition is very different. You need to find a
> good Dr. who listens and will stick with you until you find a better
> solution.
> Be careful not to overdo the OTC pain relievers. More people are
> injured internaly from over use of those than of Narcotic drugs each
> year. I learned this fact while doing a research paaper on drug abuse.
>
> Hang In There. The pain is part of your day, it doesn't have to control
> it.
>
> Beth C
>
> At Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Mary Lou wrote:
> >
> >Please someone respond to this message.
> >I have constant thoughts of dying to get out of
> >this pain. I (stupidly) had a cosmetic
> >procedure done 3 years ago to remove a lot of
> >loose skin rolls around my lower back, from years
> >of an eating disorder, which was finally in
> >control. Now I have adhesions covering my entire
> >torso front and back. It feels like meat
> >hooks pulling, stinging, tearing, biting, terrible.
> >I take amytryptilene to sleep at night (it works)
> >but I am like a zomby during the day, struglling
> >to be alert. I have to continue to work
> >full time and i am a college teacher, so I have
> >to act like I know what I am doing. during the
> >day i take advil, tylenol, aspirin but all they
> >do is make me more sedated with no pain
> >relief. I want to try a TENS (trans epidural
> >nerve stimulator. I am going to be seen at a
> >pain clinic. My questions: 1) does anyone
> >out there in adhesion sufferers land have pain
> >control without sedation?????? 2)I have been
> >reading the board for a while. When people say,
> >"Have a pian free day", I wonder is that
> >possible?????2)3) those of you taking
> >strong meds like methadone and oxycntin, are you
> >alert enough to function mentally? 4) I identify
> >with the people who say, "I used to do so much
> >and now my life is nothing." Just barely
> >hanging on. PLEASE PLEASE P{LEASE SOMEONE ANSWER ME.
> >Mary Lou
>
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