Re: update-celebrex and PT eval

From: toni welsh (twelsh1@webtv.net)
Wed Jul 28 10:24:46 1999


At Wed, 28 Jul 1999, chris smith wrote: >
>Hi everyone:
>I reported about a week ago that I had started celebrex (Sat July 17th)
>and that it helped, but not eliminated my pain. What it did eliminate
>was the abdominal/pelvic pain in the right lower quadrant-this
>disapeared about 4 hours after the first dose. This is the same pain
>that disappeared for 3-4 months after each lap. (at the time of the
>laps I didn't have hip or back pain) As this past week wore on I got
>better and better and on Sunday I have to say I felt 100% normal! Even
>the hip and back pain was gone. It was unbelievable. I then stopped
>taking the celebrex because I knew I was going for a PT evaluation and
>besides feeling like a fool going in completely painless, I knew I would
>not be able to accurate evaluate anything the therapist was doing to me.
>I skipped the Monday am dose and by noon i was in pain again. The PT
>therapist told me that when celebrex works, it works very well. I agree
>with that.
>The PT evaluation was today and I had no idea what to expect. She
>evaluated my pelvis/hips etc. She told me that my pelvis was out of
>line and that when she was doing the manipulations she felt the right
>sacroiliac joint pop and slip a little. She also worked on my coccyx,
>which has been hurting. She said that was also out of line. Then she
>told me that today's session might have cured my problem! I was polite
>but thinking to myself, I don't think so! But when I left that office I
>was relatively pain free and remained that way for several hours. When
>I tried to go to sleep, I lay on my right hip in my usual sleeping
>position and the pain was back! She warned me that this might happen and
>so I have another appt on Thursday and several next week.
>So at this point I am more and more convinced that my present pain is
>not due to adhesions and there is some doubt that it ever was, but over
>the course of 2 years it is hard to say for sure. I certainly had
>adhesions when they did the laps.
>Since this is an adhesion discussion forum, I'm not sure I even belong
>here anymore, but I would like to encourage everyone to keep an open
>mind about the cause of their pain. You might have adhesions, and they
>could very well be causing your pain, but they might not be, or might
>not be the only reason for your pain. As confusing as this is, I think
>it is true. If I hadn't gone to the colo-rectal surgeon I wouldn't have
>been directed (by him) to the bone/joint source of the pain because my
>pcp still maintains it is either my bowels, or the adhesions, or some
>combination of both. However, he is not aware of my reaction to the
>celebrex yet, or the PT, so I don't know if he will change his opinion
>or not.
>
>Chris S.

chris, I havebeen on celebrex for a week, and I am going to aquatic PT as son as ins approves it, takes so long, but a few of my drs are thinking I should see neurologist to talk or try t diagnose FB, they do beleve the way my pain has spread and getting worse that is a big pssibility, I will talk later we have some bad storms headed our way, and I have to go to grocery, and time it for my husband to carry them in for me, cannot even do that anymore, the pain in abdomen is better, bt not completely gone. FRUSTRATED still!


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