Re: have begun the runaround and I want to scream -karen
From: Icequeen_in_ak (icequeen66@gci.net)
Thu Jan 17 02:19:40 2008
Kelly,
thank you so much for the kind words. It's nice to know that people
have been in my shoes before!
I had an appointment with the GYN/Pelvic surgeon that my GI referred me
to yesterday. He was an amazing man. If I HAD a uterus, I would want
to birth a dozen of his babies LOL.
After a pretty in depth examination, he doesn't think my problem is
adhesion's per se, he thinks I have entrapped Ilioinguinal Neuralgia (in
layman's terms, large nerve endings that have been adhesed and are
causing all the pain). He said my trigger points for pain are exactly
where they should be to be suffering from entrapped nerves. He
scheduled me with the neurologist/anesthesiologist on Thursday to get a
nerve block done on those nerves. If the nerve block takes my pain
away, we will know that his diagnosis is right and we can schedule a lap
procedure to go release the nerves. The success rate for long term pain
relief is 85%, so that's hopeful.
In the meantime, he gave me a small arsenal of Tramadol for pain
medication. I've never taken it before, but liked that it wasn't a
narcotic. I have to admit though, it makes me WAY loopier than any
narcotic ever did. Which kind of defeats the purpose of switching to it
(so I can be coherent).
At Tue, 15 Jan 2008, IAS Admin wrote:
>
>From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of
>Kelly Murray
>Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:29 AM
>Subject: Re: I have begun the runaround and I want to scream -karen
>
>Karen,
>Do you have a primary care physician or you could have one of the doctors
>that you have seen refer you to a pain management doctor?
>I was reading in the paper about Tucson, Az. The drs there are very
>hesitant about giving meds for pain. No one wants to be liable. I feel
that
>if they are good drs. they can assess your pain and a good dr. knows if
>there is abuse of pain meds. I bet if it were a family member of the
>physician that was going through the pain you are would have them on
>something for the pain.
>
>I get so upset when someone is not getting help for the pain because I have
>been there and it is devastating when you cannot get any relief. Luckily,
I
>have a good dr. now.
>
>I think a person that is in true pain does not get addicted but maybe
>tolerant to the pain meds and they have to up their dose.
>Kellyns.org/forums/
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