ENDO Messages for December, 2006: Re: Bad pain even after two Vicodin

Re: Bad pain even after two Vicodin - normal with endo?

From: Erica (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Dec 2 11:39:57 2006

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Michelle,

I am sorry you are experiencing so much pain. I do not have the lower back pain that you experience but I definitely feel extreme pelvic pain and tailbone pain. At times it radiates down one of my legs. Lately I have been experiencing pain in my right side into my back that feels similiar to a kidney infection. I thought I had a bladder infection b/c I am urinating very frequently and if I try to hold it at all it brings on more pain in my side. I do not have a bladder infection and they even checked me for kidney stones. I had a very small one but not big enough to cause the pain I feel. I have had endo for about 2 and 1/2 years now. I find that Motrin does not help me at all. I take Vicodin occasionally but I will admit that Percocet helps me somewhat more than Vicodin. I try to refrain from pain killers b/c of the constipation issues it causes. However I have to take them to get through work. I take 1-2 a day (sometimes not on the weekends) and have done so for about two years. I am surprised that two Vicodins doesn't get rid of alot of your pain. However I will say that I find that with narcotics it is important that you take them the second you start having pain b/c if it gets too bad when you do take them it will not be as effective. That has been my experience. My endo involves my bowels and bladder as well and that can make everything so painful b/c everytime you have gas, bowel movements it can be from uncomfortable to unbearable at times. Just curious, have you altered your diet at all?

At Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Michelle wrote: >
>I have been diagnosed with endometriosis for about fifteen years now. I
>had a laparascopy in 1994 and 1995 and then got pregnant with my son and
>two years later with my daughter. I did okay without pain for a while,
>but then had a reoccurence in 1999. I had another laproscope, and my
>doctor feels that I also have adenomyosis. My pain then was right over
>my bladder and felt like rocks were scraping each other in my bladder. I
>could have sworn I had a bladder infection, but didn't. Early on and
>throughout I have been to a urologist and gastroenterologist. I have
>had two colonoscopies, one because during gallbladder surgery, my doctor
>saw what he thought was endometriosis on my colon. He also took my
>appendix due to endometriosis during that gallbladder surgery. I just
>had another laproscopic procedure on September 22 of this year. I have
>been in pain every single day since. My pain is worse before and after
>my cycle, even worse than while on my cycle. I get terrible low back
>and tailbone pain and pain down my legs and the usual frontal pelvic
>pain. I am sitting here now in horrific pain that I awakened with
>around 5:00 a.m. I took two Vicodin and I am still in pain. It only
>took a very little edge off. The other day the pain was so bad that I
>took two Vicodin and two Aleve (three hours after the Vicodin) and I was
>still in pain. Is anyone elses pain this bad and constant?? I even went
>to a spinal specialist just to be sure I didn't have some tumor or
>something on my spine. I had an MRI, but it was okay. I guess it is
>just hard to accept that anyone can be in this much pain and not be in
>ICU or something. Is this kind of pain usual with endo???
>
>--
>Michelle
>

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