Linda
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From: "IAS Admin (Tracy)" <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:49 AM
Subject: Tugging pain that has returned
> Sender: DWRon@aol.com (Ron/Barbara Paul)
> Subject: Tugging pain that has returned
>
> Hi. We have posted on the message board a number times over the last 8
> years. We have gotten tremendous support and truly appreciate the
> concern. My wife Barbara started to get tugging pains about 1 above her
> navel in 1995. Diagnostic tests could not find anything. Three
> laparascopic surgeries over 3 years found few adhesions, and the pain
> kept coming back in shorter intervals after each surgery. We tried pain
> management and had some success. We saw Drs. Reich and Redan with
> surgery done in 2000. They found very few adhesions, removed her gall
> bladder and was pain free for 4 years. When the pain returned we found
> an understanding pain managment doctor who prescribed Fentanyl patches.
> My wife was basically pain free for 3 years at the cost of increasing
> strengths of the patch and later,the need to use Actiq for outbreak
> pain. She is now at a point where she gets this disabling tugging pain
> after she moves her bowels and after she eats or drinks. She does not
> always get relief from the patches and Actiq. Our medicinal pain
> management doctor does not want to give her more than 300 mcg of
> Fentanyl. Her surgeon, who we like and trust, did not want to operate
> when he looked at her CT a year ago - he did not see anything.
> We would like to know if there is anyone who has or is suffering this
> type of debilitating pain and what they have done. We are thinking of
> making an appointment to see Dr. Redan again in Florida (we live in
> Arizona) . Thanks for your help.
> Ron & Barbara Paul
>