Re: First Trip to Pain Management
From: Lynn Creacy (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Wed Aug 7 15:43:02 2002
At Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Brenda wrote:
>
>I had my first appointment with Pain Management Clinic today. They want
>to start me on Neurontin 100 mg and work me up to 300 mg 3 times a day,
>and they also want to do a nerve block by inserting a needle through my
>back somewhere near my spine using xray to find the nerve and do the
>block. My question is has anyone else had this done and if so did it
>help? Are there any risk in any of this. The medication I checked on
>and it looks like it is normally used for seizures the Doctor said that
>it might at first make me sleepy and a little out of it and he said that
>there were some risk with the nerve block. I go back to see my OBGYN DR
>that recommened me to this place in the morning and want to discuss this
>with him. Any suggestions on questions would be helpful. He still
>thinks I may have to have another surgery my bowels are partially
>obstructed and had a really rough weekend trying to get them to move
>any.
Robin,
I was on Neurontin but was unable to take it due to the side effects. I
itched really really bad and had shortness of breath and alot of
sweating. I hope it works for you.
Good luck
lynn