Re: Intensely Painful Cramps...
From: Alicia M. Lapidus M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:14:06 -0500 (CDT)
Don't forget that oxycontin may bring addiction, have you try BCP?.
At Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Misty wrote:
>
>I'm 16 years old. About 1/2 or 1/3 of all of my periods, I will get a
>cramp around noon. This will intensify worse and worse until finally it
>becomes absolutely unbearably painful. It is painful to the point where
>if I am at school, I have to leave because I can no longer participate
>in class. When I get home, I am in so much pain I don't want to move so
>I usually lay in bed and cry and cry and scream and cry some more
>because it is so intensely painful. I can't even describe how immense
>the pain is, but its unbearable. Sometimes it is so bad that I want to
>die or knock myself out or something just to end the pain.
>Other period, I won't even know I am getting my period until I get it.
>No cramps, nothing.
>
>I had a gyno exam, and she did all kinds of tests and she couldn't find
>anything wrong, and she prescribed me Tylenol3's with codeine. These
>don't ease the pain at all. I have tried hydrocodone, which doesn't get
>rid of the pain either. The only thing I have found that kills the pain
>90% is 20mg oxycontin. It is that intensely painful.
>
>The pain is mainly is what I assume to be my uterus, but a lesser amount
>of pain will be in my vagina, lower back, and hips. The pain gets
>stronger and stonger and stronger then suddenly it feels like it is
>bearable but then it gets stronger again, so I am wondering if these are
>contractions?
>
>I am not sexually active. I was wondering if anyone had any idea what
>could be causing such enormous amounts of pain? It would really be
>appreciated because my own gyno hasn't been very helpful.
>
>--
>Thank you for your time
>
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Alicia M. Lapidus M.D.
Director Obgyn.net Latina
Chief of Staff Obstetrics, Hospital J. A. Fernández
Buenos Aires
Argentina
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