ENDO Messages for March, 2004: Re: nerve pain, burning, tingling after lap

Re: nerve pain, burning, tingling after lap

From: D.N. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Mar 30 20:47:20 2004

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Hi Melissa,

I don't know if this would be helpful or not, but I will tell you about my experience with nerve damage. During my hyst, I hemorrhaged and had to have transfusions. The transfusions were put into my left arm. After leaving the hospital, I developed phlebitis. I found that I also had nerve damage in my arm (I.Vs can cause this). It hurt a lot. My doctor suggested using capsasin cream and it helped. The only problem with capsasin cream is that because it is made from hot peppers, it can cause burning pain. It burns when the area you use it on gets wet, from showering or sweating, etc. I found that the burning was something I could tolerate to a point because it did help with the pain in my arm. The pain has lessened over the years and only tends to bother me if I am retaining fluids during a cycle (I have ovarian remnant syndrome).

I hope this info might be of some help. Discuss it with your doctor.

Best wishes, D.N.

At Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Melissa wrote: >
>Just as a note to some of you who replied to my earlier message about
>the burning, tingling pain in my leg after surgery:
>
>I got some terrific info from an MD friend of mine, who is an oncologist
>and deals with neuropathy often. He said it sounded like some
>peripheral nerves in the abdominal wall were damaged during my
>procedure, and that doesn't mean the procedure was done incorrectly, but
>my doctor probably should have warned me that this was possible. He
>said this is typical of damaged peripheral nerves, thinks the one
>damaged in me was the femoral nerve, and that this sensation will
>continue until the nerve has completely healed. He said Neurontin
>(spelling?) can help with the pain, as well as NSAIDs like Advil. He
>gave me hope that the nerve will regenerate itself and my pain should go
>away -- eventually.
>
>As an aside, he was also completely sympathetic to my complaints of pain
>after the surgery and said my doctor should have sent me home with pain
>meds -- so bully for those of us told to take two Tylenol and suck it
>up!!
>
>So, for those of you suffering with nerve pain and being told that it
>was too much time in the stirrups, or other stuff, know that there is at
>least one doc who believes that our nerves were damaged and thinks we
>will recover -- eventually!
>
>--
>Melissa A.
>

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