At Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Craig Richardson wrote:
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>I am wondering if anyone can shed some advice for the next few weeks. We
>are going to Germany at the end of the month. Every day seems to be
>like 3, so it seems like we have 3 months till we go. My wife is
>worsening very quickly, this is her third time with adhesions, and she
>is degrading much quicker that last time. Last time, there was a three
>month span between starting to take pain killers and just complete loss
>of any semblance of a life. Now, it has only taken 2 weeks. She is
>currently taking a Percocet an hour and waking up at night to take them.
>She still gets hit 3 times a day with a 5 on the pain scale, once a day
>with a 7 and once a day with a 10. A 10 is just flat out screaming and
>sobbing for a 1/2 an hour. She feels like there is someone inside of
>her pulling at all her organs. She gets these even while being on the a
>pain killer and hour. This has all happend rather quickly as I
>described above. I now really worry what condition she will be in by
>the time we get to Germany. My idea is to go see a pain center tomorrow
>morning. I would like some suggestions on what others that have similar
>cases use. I have been reading about OxyCotin and Staydol, would
>appreciate some feedback. Is there anything that can give her almost
>immediate releif. Besides when she gets hit with the pain levels I
>described above, she is in not to bad of shape all day. I don't know
>whether it is the Percocet or if she just has these intense pains. If
>it was just these intense pains, I would love to give her something that
>just provides immediate releif and stop having to feed her 20 Percocets
>a day. Thanks for any advice.
>
>P.S. For those suffering with Nausea, my wife started taking Zofran
>last week for intense Nausea and Vommitting, work in 2 minutes and is
>fantastic.