Re: I cant stand the pain and no one will treat it RE:non narcotic pain meds
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Sep 18 00:59:55 2007
I have taken percoset and motrin and used heat patches.
I have taken motrin and xanax and heat patches.
Look into a good doctor on the ERC site.
I am so sorry to hear of the terrible experience! But there are some
really great places out there for pain management!
At Mon, 17 Sep 2007, anonymous wrote:
>
>Why not try another pain management doctor? Tell your doctor you had a
>bad experience with that one you went to, and find another - then you
>can feel okay staying with him, too. I'm sorry you had a bad experience
>with that clinic, but all pain doctors are not the same! Also taking
>that much ibuprofen can be really hard on your digestive system, it can
>even cause ulcers.
>
>I'd find out how to file a complaint on that pain clinic, especially
>knowing that they mixed your files up with your mothers. That's just
>incompetence - you deserve better!
>
>At Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Jess wrote:
>>
>>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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