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30 Replies Last post: Dec 4, 2007 4:02 PM by Maven023 Go to original post 1 2 3 Previous Next

Maven023

157 posts since
May 30, 2001

15. Dec 3, 2007 3:25 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

quote:<HR>Originally posted by hysimmonds:
I feel ya! I have endometriosis, it has been rough the last few months.... a constant pain, leaving me unable to stand upright in the evenings.

God Bless Demerol, even it wasn't helping in the few days before surgery. Its definitely not easy to deal with chronic pain!! I did resign myself to a few nights of Vicoden & Wine... on others there isn't much you can do, just breathe through the pain. I don't have much advice to get through it, but I am sorry you're dealing with it!!

I also called the docs very regularly to schedule my surgery as quick as humanly possible...they got fed up with me eventually <HR>

{{hysi}} Been there done that with the endo - hysterectomy in '90!

I wish I could cajole them into scheduling me, but it is out of local hands. They are sending me to Duke to have this done, by this same doc - Urbaniak[/URL" target="_blank">

I have been informed that when the surgeon at Duke says he has scheduled me, I am to BE THERE, PERIOD. So, until I am summoned, I wait....

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Stupid Should Hurt -DON'T FEED THE MONKEYS!!

Rich Mac

331 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

16. Dec 3, 2007 3:48 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Maven:
heh. I really wouldn't make it to work then.

<HR>

You didn't qualify by saying you had to do something

I feel your pain, in the last year I've had four fairly significant surgeries..
Hip replacement
Elbow - ulner nerve, some deburment, and something else
most recently - full thickness rotator cuff repair as well as fixing a detached bicep..

Getting old sucks, but so does slowing down

Maven023

157 posts since
May 30, 2001

17. Dec 3, 2007 3:55 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Rich Mac:
You didn't qualify by saying you had to do something

I feel your pain, in the last year I've had four fairly significant surgeries..
Hip replacement
Elbow - ulner nerve, some deburment, and something else
most recently - full thickness rotator cuff repair as well as fixing a detached bicep..

Getting old sucks, but so does slowing down <HR>

Getting old ain't for wussies, that's for sure. You really have been through it, and I hope that the outcome of each has been successful! Those are no small things to have fixed!

What was your hip surgery for, if I might ask? Mine will be for osteo(avascular)necrosis of the femur.

We are hoping to avoid hip replacement with the surgery I linked to above.

I'll be on crutches for 6 months, but it will be worth it if it saves my hip.

I asked the doc if I would be able to run marathons once this procedure took and was completely healed and he said yes. I said that's good, 'cause I could never do better than a 5k before - ba-dump-dump!

10 more minutes and I am getting out of this office, going home and getting into a nice glass of wine. If I can't stop the pain, I can at least not care about it.

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Stupid Should Hurt -DON'T FEED THE MONKEYS!!

MiniDriver

315 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

18. Dec 3, 2007 3:56 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

Old? You ain't old, Maven.

{{Maven}}

{WTR}

Rich Mac

331 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

19. Dec 3, 2007 3:59 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Maven:
Getting old ain't for wussies, that's for sure. You really have been through it, and I hope that the outcome of each has been successful! Those are no small things to have fixed!

What was your hip surgery for, if I might ask? Mine will be for osteo(avascular)necrosis of the femur.

We are hoping to avoid hip replacement with the surgery I linked to above. I'll be on crutches for 6 months, but it will be worth it if it saves my hip.

I asked the doc if I would be able to run marathons once this procedure took and was completely healed and he said yes. I said that's good, 'cause I could never do better than a 5k before - ba-dump-dump!

10 more minutes and I am getting out of this office, going home and getting into a nice glass of wine. If I can't stop the pain, I can at least not care about it.

<HR>

I had broken both hips when I was younger, and didn't see the right doctors.
Have you heard of the GANZ procedure? I didn't have a total hip replacement, something called hip resurfacing.. FDA approved May 2006

Maven023

157 posts since
May 30, 2001

20. Dec 3, 2007 4:05 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Rich Mac:
I had broken both hips when I was younger, and didn't see the right doctors.
Have you heard of the GANZ procedure? I didn't have a total hip replacement, something called hip resurfacing.. FDA approved May 2006

<HR>

I'll have to look that up when I get home.

Mine is called 'a free vascularized fibular graft' - I asked my doc here, if it is so free, why is the surgeon's fee 10-freakin'-thousand dollars!!??

Thanks, Mini.

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Stupid Should Hurt -DON'T FEED THE MONKEYS!!

Rich Mac

331 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

21. Dec 3, 2007 4:11 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Maven:
I'll have to look that up when I get home.

Mine is called 'a free vascularized fibular graft' - I asked my doc here, if it is so free, why is the surgeon's fee 10-freakin'-thousand dollars!!??

Thanks, Mini.

<HR>

With the hip resurfacing I have no restrictions on what I can do.. I could do the eliptical at 12 weeks and light jog at 16..

Hope it works out for you.. If you have specific questions on the procedure I had email me if you don't want the world to know

JillieD

33 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

22. Dec 3, 2007 4:27 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

I got nothing but I hope you feel better soon. Wish I could drink with you and tell you some funny stories to help you forget about it.

Take care, Maven!

wannab001

205 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

23. Dec 3, 2007 4:29 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

What about acupuncture while you're waiting for surgery? Could that help?

CheryG

29 posts since
Jul 2, 2001

24. Dec 3, 2007 5:42 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

Breathing. Slow, deep, in through the nose, out the mouth and visualize:

Inhale- the air coming into my body is crystal blue, clean, cooling refreshing. I feel it trickling down through my body.

Exhale- the air leaving my body is dark brown, clotted and rank. The pain goes with it, it's being pulled from every corner of my being. Out it goes, away, purged. It leaves holes.

The next inhale fills those holes, replacing the pain.

Sneaky Robot

45 posts since
Aug 23, 2004

25. Dec 3, 2007 8:33 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

I fell off a roof a little over two years ago and landed pretty much on my head. It knocked me out, and when I woke up, I thought I had broken my neck. I crawled into my cabin and lay there for two days, and finally managed to drive myself home. My back has been a wreck ever since. I have to deal with a lot of pain all the time now. It's a bummer. I go to my physician once a year and get more pain pills, and a lecture about abusing pain meds. As if one perscription in a year is abuse!

But holding Ruthie is a pretty good cure. When I am reading her a story or rocking her to sleep, I never think about my back/neck. When I'm at work, and the pain seems unbearable, I open up some pictures of Ruthie that I have at work, and it helps push it out of my mind.

Good luck. I know it can be unbearable at times.

With Respect,

leanmattie

makeda023

825 posts since
Aug 16, 1999

26. Dec 3, 2007 8:55 PM

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mattie - GOOD LORD! You'd think you'd get some kind of sixth sense from that injury.

Maven023

157 posts since
May 30, 2001

27. Dec 3, 2007 9:32 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

My God Mattie, I had no idea. I don't remember seeing anything about this - did you post??

I have to go now, but will write to you soon.

hugs
Maven!

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LaceyL

32 posts since
Nov 8, 2004

28. Dec 3, 2007 9:46 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

I broke my tailbone the first time when I was in the 7th grade. I had severe headaches in high school. In college, I dated a snowboarder and learned to board. All was good until I fell just right... or just wrong... on my butt. He and some of our friends had to carry me down the mountain. I had severe pain down the back of my left leg for a long time after- it took three regular doctors before someone referred me to a good chiropractor. The adjustments didnt help, but the deep tissue massage did. She re-arranged my ligaments like nobody's business!

Two years ago this month, I fell on our hardwood stairs in the middle of the night. Same spot! It hurt so badly I passed out. Oy. Same thing- deep tissue massage.

I have learned stretches and how to sleep to help both the sciatica and my ever-sore tush. One thing I noticed when I was constantly hurting was a good sleep helps, and if you take nothing else, take something to help you sleep.

Good luck Lady!

Rich Mac

331 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

29. Dec 4, 2007 2:56 PM

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Re: Chronic pain sufferers check in please....

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Maven:
I'll have to look that up when I get home.

<HR>

So what did you think?

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