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Re: a familiar painFrom: Christine (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed Jan 6 12:28:55 1999
At Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Toni wrote: > >At Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Christine wrote: >> >>Oh no, I woke up last night with a familiar problem and wonder if it's >>all starting again.If so,this time I lasted 3 1/2 months since the lap. >>Sometime after the episode of severe pelvic pain in June 1997 that led >>up to the two laps I've had I started waking up periodically (not too >>often) in the middle night with a terrible pain in my right lower back. >>It was so bad I could hardly move, yet I knew I had to move to see what >>happened so forced myself. Moving relieved it so I concluded it must be >>a muscular thing, maybe from sleeping the wrong way. Eventually it >>started going through to my abdomen, still only the right side. I >>concluded that it could be still a muscular thing as back pain often >>refers to the abdomen and vice versa. It wasn't until after the second >>lap that I put two and two together and decided that perhaps it was >>connected to the adhesions after all. (Since my sigmoid colon was >>smooched over and stuck to the right wall of the abdomen)I would wait to >>see if it happened again and sure enough, last night it did for the >>first time since the lap in Sept. I feel fine this morning. Hope >>things are not starting up again! >> >>Toni-does the pain you're having ever wake you up at night? >> >>Chris S. > >Hi Chris! >Yes, I am averaging waking at least 3-4 times a night, I am sleeping >maybe 3-4 hours each night. I am getting tired, and that does not help. >You said you feel okay this morning? Did you call your dr? Are you able >to eat anything? I guess these are stupid questions, but I am not as >smart as you, seems like you lnow pretty much! >The last 3 nights I am having more trouble getting to sleep, I leave the >tv on in my bedroom, and when I wake up I just turn it off. I feel so >bad, my husband has a cold and I hear EVERYTHING, and I have alot of >trouble sleeping anyway, so he has been on the sofa so i can sleep. I >was up before him, and he laughed because when he asked me what woke me >up, I told him the water running in the shower, my son was in there >getting ready to go to work. But I do not hear an alarm, Go figure! >Chris please let me know how you are feeling, you helped me so much when >we were going through suregry, I had laparotomy Sept 29th, and wasnt >yours the 22nd. You have been feeling pretty decenttil last night? >Please keep me informed, but I am wakened almost everynight, but not as >bad the las t 3 nights, I dont know! > >Toni Hi Toni: I am feeling fine-went off to the gym this morning. But the pain that woke me up was definitely an old familiar one. It might possibly be muscular but I'm going to keep track of it. The reason I asked about if the pain wakes you up is because docs seem to think that pain that disturbs sleep is significant. Waking up 3-4 times a night will make you a basket case! Quality sleep is very important when fighting pain. These are all things you should be keeping track of-when you have good days, when you wake up, etc. That way you have it all down on paper, a pattern might emerge and when the docs ask you it looks like you know what you are talking about. It's easy to get it all jumbled up in your head and then they think you are nuts. Often when asked about pain we report it based on how we've been feeling very recently and forget that last week it was terrible. Chris S.
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