"most people with Crohns don't have pain"

I second that motion, Mojo... *I'm sorry, dude.... But everytime I see your username, I think of Mojo Jojo from the Powerpuff Girls*

As for you, Texan... Man.... *Hugs*

I really feel for ya... I was in your position at one time.... Had a nervous breakdown and everything. Have you sought any kind of counseling or something? You sound like you need it bad... You don't want to wait too long or you may end up having to check yourself in the stress center.... I hope you get to feeling better soon.

I went into my PCP yesterday because my body is SWOLEN, my fingers, hands, wrists, knees, ankles, feet... I'm mean swolen. I was A-1 Freaked! So rather than going back to prednisone he's going to put me on a srong NSAID - this just frightens me more. I don't know about that. NSAID + CD = BAD

He also insisted I get into that Rhemy doc and now he wants me to go to a pain mgmt doc referred to by him. I did that once without a referral, but that doctor was... well, her office looked more like a drug seekser's place, so I stopped going there. The people in the waiting room were just... well, not right.


PCP agrees that 7.5 pain pills he gives will not be enough. He wants me on a reumy med for arthritis and a pain med from pain mgmt. Guess I don't understand much about pain medication because I didn't understand what he was babbling on about levels and the government. ????

Guess I'll go pick up my NSAIDS, and pack a couple of sedatives for today. Can't be freaking out at work. If the pain in my gut gets any worse from the NSAID... I be going to the ER. Steady 8 out of 10 going on three days now. 1 - 5 = annoying; 6 - 7 = hurts but can cope; 8 - 9 = okay this stuff hurts pretty bad.... please make it stop. 10 = ER visit

Happy I got that one day that was pain free to ride.... good things can happen.

Anyways, looks like PCP doctors only prescribe "lower-level class" pain meds, whatever that means. So you, like me, will have to go into a pain management doctor. I swear if they talk condescending to me or even look at me wrong (I don't like doctors) I will unleash the wrath of the Leslie upon them. It's been locked up tight for sometime now, so it should be an effective weapon.

(past the point of crying - the pain has me in some warped extreme agitation. Is the similar to the seven stages of grief? Are the stages of pain from a psych standpoint??

Texan..I know your PCP prescribed NSAID's but maybe you should wait to take them until your GI gives the okay?...There has to be something else you can take to ease the pain :( It seems counter intuitive to take something for pain that will only exacerbate it in the end..