At Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Peggy wrote:
> >At Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jaynie Jarvis wrote: >> >>For those of us in Seattle area I have asked Dr. Wiseman to recommend >>some one to use. I got Barbara Levy gyn off of the pelvic pain society >>web page and there is someone else whose office is on a houseboat. Don't >>want any erogant doctor so I did not call him. I'm alittle judgemental >>don't you think.Anyway I did not go through with my last nerve block.My >>dr. could not gve me an explanation to why my legs ached so much after >>ward and I found out that the final block they use a destructive agent >>to actually kill off the nerve whih grows back in 6-8 months. So I >>talked to her about having trigger point injectios in tender spots on >>stomach 1st since that is the less serious procedure.She is willing but >>acted like she has never done it in the abdomen before. I'll be >>canceling that appt. also. Has anyone had trigger point injections in >>there abdomen? And WELCOME HOME PEGGY!!! Hope everything went well and >>you are home. Let us know how it went. Thanks Jaynie > >Hi Jaynie , >Sorry it has taken so long to respond I was just going through all the >posts. With having surgery I am not on for to long with having to sit >at the computer I have to do a little at a time,I just wanted to let you >know that I did have the trigger point injections done back in February >1999. Unfortunattly they did not help at all. My Dr. thought the pain >was coming from the anterior wall (He called it anterior wall syndrome ) >but after the 2nd shot and having no relief our hopes were shattered. I >did agree to go through with all 4 injections in hopes for a miracle but >that never happened. This is how my surgeries went- I had the >hysterectomy on April 6th 1998 with the removal of the left ovary and >tube I was discharged on April 9th only having to return back to the >hospital on April 16th with an infection that had to be taken care of >surgically.I was discharged from this on April 19th.( The infection was >caused from the Dr. missing a stitch during surgery as he openly >admitted ) I was feeling o:k for about 6-8 weeks and the pain returned >on the left side. After my Dr. left the group that I had been with for >about 18 years I felt that I should follow him into the new group that >he was going to ,but after being pushed around to many other Drs. and >this Dr. not willing to do a laporoscopy on me to see what the heck was >going on, I decided to go back to the group that I was with originally >and the Senior partner of this group has been my Dr. since (October >1998 )He is the one that did the laporoscopy on October 23rd 1998 and >found that I had severe pelvic and abdominal adhesions. With this >surgery I was feeling pretty good again for about 6-8 weeks and the pain >returned on the left side again.This is when my Dr. recommended that I >have the steriod injections done to the lower left quadrant.My Dr. has >done this on about a dozen women so really not many when you think about >it. So maybe your Dr. hasn't done the shots to the abdomin before. I >did have the injections put in exactly where the pain was but slightly >off the spot each time as to not inject into the exact spot each >time.But as I said before they did not help me so I was scheduled for >another laporoscopy on April 29th 1999 and again the Dr. found an >extensive amount of adhesions ,he lysed them and applied interceed at >this time.The pain returned again about 2 weeks after the surgery.So I >was sent for a colonoscopy to rule out problems being associattted with >the bowels and also had a cystoscopy to rule out problems being >urilogical.Then he sent me to a pain management Dr. and I was put on >Methadone >Klonopin and Athrotec. These medications seemed to help at first but as >time went on and my body adjusted to the medications they did not work >as well.I did not care for the pain management Dr. so I called my >primary care physician and he recommended someone else. The new pain >management Dr. has taken me off the klonopin and the arthrotec because >we both felt that they were not helping me at all.He is the one that >recommended that I have another laporoscopy done to take care of any >adhesions that had reformed.I just had the surgery on November 22nd and >to my Drs. surprise I had absolutely no adhesions there at all. >Though he did find some endometriosis Which he thought might be the >problem.Right now I am cautiously optimistic that he has found and taken >care of the problem.I am still quite sore from the surgery and will not >know about the pain until I am healed .Sorry for this being so long but >sometimes it helps just telling others what I have been through which I >feel is too much in such a short time.I have had to go under general >anesthstesis(sp) 5 times in 1 1/2 years.I am praying that this is it for >me . How much can the body take ? Well if you have any questions don't >hesitate to ask , I will help as much as I can. >"FRIENDS THAT STICK TOGETHER" PEGGY