Hi Susie, I haven't had any steriods since Jan. The nerve ablations were done 2 weeks afo. AMDD...
Susie, Would a short course of steroids help calm things down? AMDD...
Susie, Ok. Thanks. AMDD...
Susie, Thanks for the reply. I am going to a different pain Dr for the SI joint ablation. I do not trust the first Dr now. My SI joints hurt and my lower back feels like it is going to break off. AMDD...
Hi to all, I had a nerve ablation done 2 weeks ago and I'm having complications. The place where I went, had just started doing them. I had it done on my mid back. After 3 days I started having a...
Fatherjohn, Thanks for the pep talk. It does help to know that people know what I am going through. AMDD...
Fatherjohn, Still sad that I will never get off these pain pills and I dread winter time cause the pain is so much worse, but I just had nerve ablation and it didn't help. Made stuff worse. I will...
Thanks so much Jake. When I look forward in my life, all I see is pain and I just cry and cry. My daughter has Crohns since she was 15. She will never be able to have any kids. She is my only child...
Hi, I've tried pt several times also. I am hoping the nerve ablations help. I DO need another surgery, but I decided to take my loose hardware out instead. I've been having problems ever since. The...
Hi, I've tried the lidocaine patches. They don't work for me. The heat wraps DO help a little bit. AMDD...
Hi, Pain mgt will not give an increase. Done asked. I have anxiety meds that I can take. It is what it is. I am on WC. They are the only pain mgt that takes the wc ins.The epidurals don't work...
Hi, No they don't make me high and I DO worry about my pain, if I do get off of them. I need an increase in medication cause my body has built up a tolerance to them. But the way pain mgt is these...
Ok. Thanks. There's probably not gonna be too many choices around here. I live in a very rural area. AMDD...
Hi, How does rehab wean you off of your meds? How long does it take? AMDD...
Ok. Thanks. I think I will give my husband my pills. Thanks so much for your help! AMDD...
Hi, I don't know anything about rehab and don't know anybody who has been. What happens when you go there?...
Hi, I can't take nsaid. My skin and blood have gotten thin. My arms are pitiful looking and I don't take any of thay stuff....
Hi, I don't know what happened. My neck is alot better! It's my lower back and middle back. The thoracic region has arthritis. Going to get nerve ablation done on the 11th to calm it down, I hope....
Hi to everyone, My pain pills are controlling me and I don't know how to help myself. I am taking too many. I have extras. I take 4 tylenol between doses and it doesn't help. That's how I got in this...
Hi, Just wanted to update everyone on my 4/5 5/6 cervical fusion. I AM getting better. All the burning is not gone yet but over half of it is! I have been blessed! Y'all don't know how much it meant...
Hi to all, As usual, the pcp was no help. I am going to have to find me a new one. I made an apt with the physiologist nurse practitioner, but of course its gonna be 3 wks.The GI doc was sick and...
Hi, The steriods have wore off and the burning is back, as bad as it was before the surgery! Jo Ann...
Karen, Yes, it does help. Thanks. I made an appointment to see my PC doc tom and I will surely ask him about Pristiq Jo Ann...
I have got so far down, I feel like I am drowning. Jo Ann...
Susie, I know, but don't know how to help myself. I've asked Drs to help. Nobody wants to do anything! Jo Ann...
Karen, I have not tried Pristiq. I am scared to try to wean off the venlafaxine and start Pristiq, afraid of what will happen. I do walk as much as I can, but it doesn't help either. I am scared ALL...
And I know that I am better off than alot of people, then I get ashamed of myself for not being grateful, and then I cry about that! Jo Ann...
I have tried gabapentin and Lyrica for the burning and neither one helped me at all. Jo Ann...
Karen, I have been on it for years. One Dr tried to wean me off, while increasing on another med, but that did NOT work at all. I REALLY wanted to hurt myself! So I stopped and kept taking it. I...
Hi, I usually post on the chronic pain forum but I am severely depressed and don't know how to help myself! I have several health issues and it makes the depression worse. I cry every single day and...
Karen and Whitebeard, Sorry I didn't make myself plain. I have too many things going on with my body. The pain under my ribs feels like something is under them. Like something is stuck. Sometimes it...
Anybody?...
One more thing, I can get to sleep ok, but after 2 hrs I wake up with the burning. Have to take 1/4 pain pill and muscle relaxer. I've got some extras rught now, but if I keep having to take them...
Hi everyone, The barium swallow test showed I have a small hiatal hernia. The nurse said that the Dr said that it shouldn't be causing me any problems. So this is not the problem either. The surgeon...
Karen, Thanks for the kind words of encouragement. Jo Ann...
Ok Susie, I will do that. It's is so hard to stay calm with everything that's happened to me. Jo Ann...
Hi Whitebeard, I am finally under the care of a GI Dr after I saw her in the ER. Don't know how they check for that, but I can't be scoped for 6 months. Jo Ann...
Thank you Susie...
A pipada scan, 2 years ago. But the GI Dr I saw in ER said that didn't mean anything. It could still be bad. Jo Ann...
Or stomach. I've had this for 3 yrs now. My Dr sent me to get gallbladder checked. It was ok. And I still kept throwing up and hurting under right rib. He said there was nothing else over there and...
Susie, No, I didn't think of colon. Maybe esophagus. Because of the hurting under ribs and now its in the middle of breast bone too....
Hi Karen, Yes it is over with now. The Dr is gonna set me up with a barium swallow test next, since I can't be scoped. Don't know when. I am afraid of cancer, since I smoked for so many years. Jo Ann...
Karen, Thank you. I am actually going for a gastric emptying test tomorrow so I hope it will give me some answers. Jo Ann...
Susie, You are truly a lifesaver!! Thanks for all the info. It makes sense. Jo Ann...
Susie, Thanks so much!! Do you think the burning will ease up? That's why I had the surgery in the first place. I am so scared it's not gonna work or that something else is going to happen to me. Jo...
Thank you for checking on me!!! My husband is here doing a great job of taking care of me, but I feel so alone and scared. He gets worried about me when I talk like this so I try not to worry him. I...
Susie, I have wanting to update yall, but I have been sick for a week. Now I am very very depressed. For 2 yrs I have had a pain under my right rib. Had my gallbladder checked and it was ok. My pcp...
Whitebeard, Thanks for the reply. You have certainly been through alot! Thank you for giving me hope. AMDD...
Darla, Thank you! I will keep y'all updated. AMDD...
Hi Darla, I have burning across top of shoulders and down right arm to elbow. Burning down to mid back, which they say is referred pain. If it's not burning, then there is a place in my thoracic...