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I cant stand the pain and no one will treat it RE:non narcotic pain meds

From: Jess (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Sep 17 18:56:10 2007

Yeah I dont think Dr.s understand how much pain Endo actually causes. The problem is I dont see a reg OBGYN I see a Dr. who specializes in Endo and Pelvic Pain. Hes the first Dr. I found who I trust when it comes to the surgery aspect of having Endo. He's a great surgeon but his bed side manner could improve some. I dont want to lose him as a surgeon but I dont want to go to another Dr. for the pain because I feel like he would see that as Dr. hopping or something. He's asked me if I would be willing to go to a pain clinic but I've already been there. I as put on methadone and gave steroid epidurals. Things were going OK until my mom started going there for her ICS. I was dropped from the program shortly after. When I got my records I saw that the psychologist you had to see if you went there had got my mother and my records all mixed up. There were things in my records that had pertained to my mother and treatments she's done and in her records there were things I had done. I was on methadone for 6 months. They gave me less than a month warning to ween down from the methadone and then they weren't even going to prescribe anything to help me before I could find a new Dr. I had to beg and the lady who was filling in for my Dr. prescribed me 15 percocet and gave me some paperwork on studies that were done stating that pelvic pain was all in your head and that I could go to a "mental hospital" were they treat that sort of thing. I wish I would have kept those papers. When she handed them to me and left the room I started crying I was so offended and I never really did get an answer on why they dropped me from my treatment. I don't know its just so frustrating. They didn't believe in my pain. I wanted to say well why would you go through with giving me two steroid epidurals that had horrible side effects if you didn't believe I was in Pain. Even pain clinics do not want to treat pain so why would reg Dr.s IM on prescription 800mg Ib now and it does help but not enough. I guess ill have to explore my options of dropping my surgeon and finding someone who treats pain and maybe a little less skilled in endo removal. Thanks for your reply and for reading this I know this was really long I just needed to Vent. Jessica

At Sat, 15 Sep 2007, andrea wrote: >
>Awwww, that sucks. I know how hard it is to get the pain meds you
>really need. It took me until I was 28 to find a doctor who would
>prescribe me some vicodin only because I showed her that I had been to
>the emergency room 3 times that year for severe pain!
>
>These docs just don't get it. Endo pain is BAD! I've had Ultram too and
>it does absolutely nothing. I think it's more of an anti-inflammatory
>and it gave me an ulcer. If you have any kind of documentation ie.
>sonograms, tests or paperwork saying that you have endo, I would take
>those to a pelvic pain doctor to get some pain meds because it is nearly
>impossible to get them from regular OB's.
>
>The only thing that worked better that Ultram was taking 800mg of
>ibuprofen every 4 hours. You could maybe ask your regular doc for
>muscle relaxers because those are non-narcotic, but it's hard to get
>those out of reg dcs too. My pelvic pain doc had no problem giving me
>the meds I need, but pain docs keep track of how much you take, so you
>can only take them when you need them and they want to document that you
>have a legitimate reason for prescribing you the pain meds.
>
>good luck with this!
>
>--
>Andrea
>
>At Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Jessica wrote:
>>
>>Does anyone know of any non narcotic prescription pain meds out there
>>that are not ultram. My pharmacist just informed me that I shouldn't
>>take Ultram and my antidepressant amitryptalin together because it could
>>cause serotonin syndrom. It took my Dr. along time to write me
>>anything for the pain at all and I know he wouldn't be comfortable
>>putting me on narcotic pain meds as much as I am on the ultram. He
>>prescribes 1 ultram every 4 2 6 hours for the pain. I try to not take
>>them on a reg basis and Sometimes that doesn't even help but I feel I
>>shouldn't ask for anything stronger because he might just stop helping
>>me altogether. So I'm trying to find an alternative to the Ultram and
>>something that works just as good or better without being a narcotic.
>>Thanks Ladies
>

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