Hi Everyone
I am semi new to the group, has belong a while back.
I am sorry to hear about you all suffering, living in chronic pain is not easy I know. But its nice to have others to talk too, something that I need lately.
Here is a semi quick bio of me.
My Name is Kimmi I am 34 years old. Married with 3 children.
I have had 12 abdominal surgeries. I have been dealing with abdominal gyn related problems for 16 years. The last 5 years I am now in a chronic pain state.
I had a TAH 5 years ago and that seems to be what sent me off on this whirl wind of chronic pain, and developing more and more health problems. The years before that it was generally all abdominal but my health has just deteriorated since then. I live with chronic upper and Lower abdominal pain and there seems to be nothing that helps. I have tried just about every kind of treatment there is for it, and all have failed. I am still in Physical therapy,Water Therapy and Myofasica treatments. My body has gone into a reconditioning state from living in chronic pain for so long that I began to lose all muscle strength in my body.
I am currently on about 12 different medications to help with all these problems honestly they don't help much. List of meds have gone as high as 18. They are constantly adding and changing meds. I am sure you all can relate to that one.
I have been on Demerol, Robaxin, and Neurotin for pain for the last 5 years. Each drug is maxed pretty high and still doesn't bring me much relief.
Through the last 5 years I have developed many other problems here is a short list of them.
Chronic Pelvic Pain,Arthritis,Fibro,MPS,TMJ,Trigiminal Neuralgia(Chronic head,neck and face Pain) Bulging disc in neck and face. Nerve damage in a few area.IBD,Intercystial Cystitis.Bursitis,Tendonitis,ulcers,gerd,hiatial,hernia,pancreatitis,endometriosis, I am one of those lucky ones NOT! that endo has never died off even though I have no female organs left, it has decided to move on to other areas. Bowel,Bladder,ect.
So pretty much I am just one big walking ball of pain. I am really looking forwarded to talking to you all. Lately I have been having a really hard time with all of this. I am very tired of pain and there seems to be no escape. The doctors said I am non operable now and have tried multiple surgeons, they are afraid that it will cause more damage than good. I am not sure I agree with this one. To be pain free for a few months to me is better than not at all. They will only operate if something becomes life threatening.
I constantly have partial bowel obstructions but with medications they pass so they won't even deal with that until becomes a full obstruction which is just waiting in the wind now.
Well think I babbled on long enough. Hugs to all and hoping we all can have a pain free day soon.
Kimmi