Re: Nerve Damage
From: Laura (sweetiepie42055423@yahoo.com)
Wed Sep 11 22:21:06 2002
At Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Lorie wrote:
>
>Help. Has anyone suffered from nerve damage relating to resection of
>the intestine or peritonitis?
>
>I had a laproscopy done about 1 1/2 yrs ago for menstrual pain. This
>resulted in a whole made in my intestine by the doctor. After seeing
>the doctor the day after my surgey, the doctor stated the way I was
>feeling was normal. Needless to say 3 days after my surgery I ended up
>in the ER with a collapsed lung, and peritonitis. After being bounced
>from various specialist and a few surgeries, I decided to go to the
>Monroe Clinic in WI. He thinks that from the peritonitis or the initial
>surgery there was nerve damage. He now has placed my on the first
>stages on pain meds. I have been through all of the morphhines,
>vicoden, darvocets, etc. for the pain which none of them helped. He
>has placed me on an anti-depressent which they found helps the nerve
>pain.
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Lorie
I am on an anti-depressent's,Zoloft in fact,my doc seem's to think it
will help my pain,but no relief as of yet. Good luck for you
though,maybe it will work for you. Laura