Re: CHRONICPAIN: 3+ years of hell...close to suicide...please help.
From: Amy Rosenman, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:58:48 -0500 (CDT)
Message posted on Amy Rosenman, M.D. behalf by: Hope, Women’s Health
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I would suggest that in the work up for your pain and blood in the urine
that you have the doctor consider the diagnosis of Interstitial
Cystitis. You do not mention if there is frequent or painful urination
or whether emptying your bladder gives any relief. If so, there may be
an inflammatory condition of the bladder known as IC.
If this is not the case, a multidisciplinary pelvic pain clinic
sometimes found in universities might be of some help.
--
Amy Rosenman, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor GYN
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Santa Monica, California
http://www.obgyn.net/meet.asp?page=/all_advisors/A_Rosenman
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At Wed, 29 Aug 2007, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
>OK, I need some direction or a different view point on this situation.
>For over three years I have suffered from dehabilitating pelvic pain. I
>only had any relief for one of the past few years after I had been given
>a perscription of Anaprox, but then after about 9 months the pain
>returned and been constant for two years (albeit always ebbing and
>flowing, changing in nature and location, as well as intensity, but
>always there nonetheless). Originally my doctor thought it was PID
>resulting from a prior Chlamydia infection, but I have been
>non-responsive to any anti-biotics perscribed. I have even gone so far
>as to have a laparoscopy where the gynecologist said everything looked
>OK except for one blocked tube on the right, and saw no evidence of PID
>or the cause of my pain. It is everywhere, the front, the sides, deep,
>superficial, low down, up high, stabbing, dull, aching, on fire, in the
>front, in my lower back (where it's killing right now), EVERYWHERE, and
>moves around and always changes. Ultimately, I have been unable to have
>sex, or exercise at all for TWO YEARS. I cannot live like this. I
>don't think my symptoms match those of PID (I've had no fever, no
>discharge, no bleeding etc.) It does not change with my cycle. It all
>started about 6 months after I was treated for Chlamydia. I had a
>pelvic exam/pap smear (wherein I thought the doctor pushed WAY too hard
>on my abdomen and from then on have barely let him touch me) and from
>there has simply progressed and not quit. The only lead I have is that
>there is trace amounts of blood in my urine...which I am currently
>investigating with a urologist...but the complexity and variance in my
>symptoms do not match any urology problem I have read about.
>
>PLEASE HELP, I need my life back.
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