Just read your e-mail Of course I will pray for you I will pray as soon as I have finished e-mailing you
God Bless You Cathy
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina" <barkbark@cox.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: Dear Cheryl/Sally/pain meds worked out
>I try to tell myself, "Tomorrow will be a better day." Maybe an extra
> episode of Joyce Meyers will work. Maybe if I pay my kids $20.00 to help
> me
> with ONE load of laundry I can catch up. I find myself laying on the couch
> telling myself, "I really need to see a pain specialist about this because
> I
> can't take it anymore....WAIT.. I AM SEEING A PAIN SPECIALIST!!! I
> already
> looked for other doctors but they want $350.00 for a first visit. My
> x-husband quit paying me $200.00 a month for babysitting and house work
> because I failed to keep up with two loads of wash a day, keeping
> counters,stoves,microwaves,vaccuumung the house- I CANNOT DO THIS ANYMORE.
> Because my specialist told me I needed to get a great job, I enrolled in a
> four year college degree program online. I am totally lying to myself
> thinking that I will recover-that I will get beter,but what am I supposed
> to
> do, give up? I have nobody willing to take care of me. I cannot get
> married
> to someone with geat health insurance because some of my diseases are
> sexually transmitted (and having sex hurts real bad). My energy level is
> getting worse. If I do not drink at least 20 cups of coffee a day or take
> my
> milk thistle, I get real weak. The milk thistle keeps me from getting that
> sick feeling that Hep C sufferers get, It does work great. I thought I
> could
> find a way to treat this pain issue alone and I found nothing. I wish I
> never started college. If I knew I would be in this kind of pain before I
> had my gallbladder out, I would have just let myself die. I suffered with
> this pain for years. I thought my gallbladder was the whole problem. After
> my surgery, the green vomit and the green acidic "diarrhea" stopped
> completely, but the pain remained. My body is a complete lemon and my
> doctor
> "DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHY I AM IN PAIN? He is a pain specialist? I am
> starting to douby this very much but he is the only one I can afford. I
> need someone to pray for me and ask God to please take this pain out of my
> body. I do not want to run a marathon or have wild sex... I want to walk
> normally. I am tired of cringing everytime someone walks towards me
> because
> I am afraid they will knock into me and hurt me. I am tired of not being
> able to bend over to get chips out of the bottom cabinet for my kids
> lunches. My son Richy hates me because I do not play catch with him
> anymore.
> I was a fun mom until my pain medication was screwed with. Why did
> dicloflenac and gabapentin hurt me wqorse than anything I ever did to
> myself? I had a migrainer and could not take naproxen for it-and this
> migraine was a 10 point on the pain scale. I lived on naproxen for years,
> why does it bother me now? I don't want to kill myself, but I do wish for
> god to give me some pain relief. I am at my witts end on this subject and
> I
> think I am officially crazy. If the pain isn't enought, the depression
> makes things really scary. I have everything in the world I want, except
> for
> the full use of my body. If anyone out there found something that works,
> please e-mail me at barkbark@cox.net as soon as you can. I am alone in
> this
> and I can't take it anymore. I don't want to cry anymore..I want to get
> mad!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank all of you for your time. Dr.Cuddy
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cuddy" <barkbark@cox.net>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Dear Cheryl/Sally/pain meds worked out
>
>>I have Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome along with the PID. My pain
>> specialist: "CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY I AM IN PAIN!!" I originally did not
>> believe in pain medication until now. I had the pain specialist (the
>> one that understood I was in pain)take me off the percocet and drop me
>> down to Lortab 10/500 because I figured if I suffer a little, I would
>> not get "hooked." The last visit, the doctor told me he cannot keep
>> "giving me pills" because he cannot see why I am in pain. (Keep in mind
>> that it takes a referral to get into one of these clinics) My next visit
>> is in March. The reason why I am writing is because if there is any
>> other way to deal with this, please let me know. And, what is going to
>> happen when they take me off of the Lortab all of a sudden? (I am
>> barkbark@cox.net). I feel as though politics are involved and this is
>> the price I have to pay because "Las Vegas" has a reputation. I am more
>> afraid of that pain comming back more than I am afraid of dying. Please
>> someone send me an e-mail.
>>
>> At Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Sally Grigg wrote:
>>>
>>>Dear CHERYL, I'm sorry you're going through such problems, I was too for
>>>a
>>>little while, I have a wonderful local doctor, but he had decided to cut
>>>back
>>>on my meds to see what happened, well, what happened was pain, pain,
>>>pain.
>>>
>>>I've tried mind over matter, but it hasn't worked yet. I wish there was
>>>some
>>>way you could ommunicate with your present doctor that it doesn't have to
>>>be
>>>either this or that. I'm trying a combination of opiates, including the
>>>patch
>>>and oxycontin, plus a few other milder ones. The point is not to take
>>>more
>>>pills or medication. The point is to be pain free or relatively pain free
>>>with
>>>the minimum quanitiy of medication. When you mix them, it works best for
>>>me.
>>>If I'm feeling in so so pain, I take a less potent pill, If I feel like
>>>screaming I take a very strong pill. I'm on the patch continuously and it
>>>help
>>>tremendously. But it needs to be supplemented with other pills.
>>>
>>>Is there any way you can get this across to your doctor, without
>>>offending
>>>him. Mine gets kidney stones, and I really believe it has made him a more
>>>compassionate man. Everytime, he starts to withdraw my meds, and I start
>>>to
>>>begin to get upset, I believe he remembers his pain and listens to me and
>>>we
>>>work something out. So far, so good.
>>>
>>>Your doctor unfortunately sounds a little childish, sorry, but you
>>>probably
>>>already think this. He shouldn't be emotionally attached to his
>>>diagnosis,
>>>and
>>>he should be aware that extreme pain needs to be treated in any way
>>>possible.
>>>
>>>We're not in the way of clear lives with no medication, we just want to
>>>live
>>>somewhat normally without laying in bed all day and moaning and crying.
>>>I'm
>>>reading the book, Full Catastrophy Living, and So far, so good. Keep up
>>>your
>>>good spirits. Maybe if you wrote him a letter with the board editing it,
>>>he
>>>would understand. Good luck., Love, Sally
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr.Cuddy
>>