Advice needed
From: Craig Richardson (mahi007@yahoo.com)
Sun Jul 6 15:23:13 2003
I am wondering if anyone can shed some advice for the next few weeks. We
are going to Germany at the end of the month. Every day seems to be
like 3, so it seems like we have 3 months till we go. My wife is
worsening very quickly, this is her third time with adhesions, and she
is degrading much quicker that last time. Last time, there was a three
month span between starting to take pain killers and just complete loss
of any semblance of a life. Now, it has only taken 2 weeks. She is
currently taking a Percocet an hour and waking up at night to take them.
She still gets hit 3 times a day with a 5 on the pain scale, once a day
with a 7 and once a day with a 10. A 10 is just flat out screaming and
sobbing for a 1/2 an hour. She feels like there is someone inside of
her pulling at all her organs. She gets these even while being on the a
pain killer and hour. This has all happend rather quickly as I
described above. I now really worry what condition she will be in by
the time we get to Germany. My idea is to go see a pain center tomorrow
morning. I would like some suggestions on what others that have similar
cases use. I have been reading about OxyCotin and Staydol, would
appreciate some feedback. Is there anything that can give her almost
immediate releif. Besides when she gets hit with the pain levels I
described above, she is in not to bad of shape all day. I don't know
whether it is the Percocet or if she just has these intense pains. If
it was just these intense pains, I would love to give her something that
just provides immediate releif and stop having to feed her 20 Percocets
a day. Thanks for any advice.
P.S. For those suffering with Nausea, my wife started taking Zofran
last week for intense Nausea and Vommitting, work in 2 minutes and is
fantastic.