WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for June, 2000: Nerve Injury at time of Hysterectomy

Nerve Injury at time of Hysterectomy

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:22:16 EDT

Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
Next message: k: "could i be pregnant!!!"
Previous message: Michelle: "Re: yeast infection"

Dear Dr. Marchbein, Thank you for your response to my question about other options that might help identify and alleviate the chronic pain I have had since my hysterectomy. Your suggestion of conscious pain mapping has been tried. It was rather interesting. It was a difficult thing for the nurses in the operating room to do ... they kept wanting to give me "something" to kind of sort of put me out, but me and my Dr. said nope, not yet. I have done a tremendous amount of research in trying to get better and the pain mapping was a new one to me and I think my doctor too, and obviously the attending nurses in the operating room. It was kind of weird being awake for all that! I think the "prep" work was the most uncomfortable. After we did the conscious pain mapping and the laparoscopy, that is when we began trigger point injections both internally and externally using cortisone and marcaine. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I would be numb for 4-5 hours and then the pain would return with a vengeance. That is when I went to the University of Denver (I live in Arizona) and was treated more aggressively there receiving many, many injections at each visit. In addition, while there, I used a TENS unit. These modalities of treatment didn't work either. I returned home and have been seeing a pain anesthesia doctor. He also gave me an injection in the hope of finding the right nerve and he also put me on some pain medication. Sadly, these did not work. As I shared in my earlier message, he is not comfortable moving forward with the cryosurgery. He said it's just way too dangerous to blindly go in there not knowing what exactly we're aiming for. He pretty much set me free saying I was on my own, he couldn't do anything more to help. That's when I fell apart emotionally and have been crying for 2 days. I pulled myself together though, and am now making arrangements to see a pain psychologist. I've been told that he/she is a specialist who helps those with chronic pain learn to live with it.

I appreciate your kind words and your suggestion of the pain mapping. If you have a special place you keep "challenging cases" such as mine, tuck me away there and send me an email if you hear of any new medical breakthroughs, or need a guinea pig for a possible new treatment. I'd be willing to try whatever, especially if it will help others who might be suffering like me.

Thanks for being there for me and all the other wonderful women who post to all of you. I know you've been a blessing for many. Reading these posts has helped me communicate more openly with my doctor too : ) I appreciate all of you : )

Karen

Next message: k: "could i be pregnant!!!"
Previous message: Michelle: "Re: yeast infection"

use when must restrict search to only the women's health forum...
Enter search keywords:
	Returns per screen: Require all keywords: