At Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Craig Richardson wrote:
>
>Hello all,
>
>Searched around and read about a 1000 posts, but did not get the answer
>I was looking for, so I thought I would post it.
>
>My wife is going for her third adhesion surgery in 3 weeks in Germany.
>We knew 2 months ago, the adhesions were back, but assumed we were just
>going to go to another surgery here with her OBGYN. Thank god I found
>this sight first. I now feel much better educated and want to try to
>stop the cycle for her now before she is overwhelmed with adhesions. I
>can't tell you how bad I feel for any woman that has to deal with this.
>
>My question is, medication seems to do zero for her pain. I would think
>that if it was not strong enough, it would a least bring it down some.
>But nothing. She might as well be on nothing which we did for a few
>days and it was no worse or better. She has done Ultram, Percocets,
>Vicoden ES, and now she is on Kadian 50mg. , and Actiq 800mg. for
>breakthrough. As I said, nothing. I had high hopes since I thought by
>reading this site that both of these drugs were pretty good.
>
>The problem I have is that she says she absolutley can't take it
>anymore. We are considering drastic and yes, stupid solutions right
>now. One is to go to Central America, which we are familiar with,
>becasue they don't torture their patients. If they need pain killers,
>they give them. We could stay there for 2 weeks. I am just a little
>nervous about these doctors and the level of pain medicine I am sure she
>needs. We are also considering a laproscopy early this week and then
>let Germany clean it up. As I said, both stupid solutions, but what I
>am I supposed to tell my wife who I love very much when she says she is
>done, she can't take it anymore.
>
>I am kind of interested if my wife case sounds normal. I read that
>everyone suffers here, but my wife seems to be living in unlivable pain
>and does not get out of bed at all. I am not even sure how we are
>supposed to fly in the plane to Germany since her breakthrough pain
>looks like an epilectic seizure or and excorsism.
>
>Are there certain adhesions that hit different pain receptors in the
>brain than these narcotics deal with. I just can't understand how she
>gets zero releif.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
-- Let's be good to ourselves....Kristie