Re: Dr's Visit
From: toni welsh (twelsh1@hotmail.com)
Sun Jun 18 13:55:18 2000
At Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Misty wrote:
>
>Hello everybody,
>My name is Misty I have only posted once and that was last week and I
>finally went see my general surgeon and I thought i'd post and let you
>know what he said.
>
>He gave me three options:
>
>Live with the pain and do nothing (so unfair)
>Or
>he can do the surgery which he has only performed a few times. He has
>done this surgery a few times with interceed and seprafilm, I already
>had the seprafilm surgery which failed horribly. He said basically the
>Interceed will probably fail as well.
>or
>I can goto a pain med clinic at Ohio state University and learn how to
>control the pain.
>
>I had the lysis of adhesions surgery about a year before I had the
>hysterectomy, with the seprafilm and that failed which in turn led to my
>hysterectomy. I do feel better since I had the hysterectomy but my
>adhesions came back worse than to begin with. So my choice is to goto
>the pain clinic and see what they can do for me. Now at pain clinics do
>they teach you how to live with the pain, or do they just find the right
>combo of meds to help with the pain?? I was in ER today because of this
>pain and the only thing that really helped with the pain was demerol.
>They sent me home with some vicodin, but only 12 tabs of that. The
>narcotics do help and they help alot, but I do not want to become
>dependant on them. Forgive me if this email doesn't make any sence, i'm
>doped up on demerol and vicodin and my thought process is a little
>cloudy. What has been other peoples experiences with pain clinics??
>does it work??
>
>--
>Misty
>
>--
>thank you for listening,
>Misty hoffman
>
Misty,
I see a pain clinic for over a year now, but it only dulls my pain most
of the time. I just do not want to live on this meds too long, I read
some things about oxycontin, I did not liked, and stopped this stuff and
suffered for a week.
It is worth atry, Interceed was used on me, never did help with
formation of adhesions.
TOni