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Post by omaklackey on Sept 6, 2012 12:27:22 GMT -5
I keep waking up in intense pain, like I still have a uterus. It feels just like my old menstrual pain, low achy back, like someone is running a finger nail on a chalk board pain. I think its something intestinal since lower back pain and intestines relation is common. Its the only way I ever felt my periods, and it was the way I labored with my kids. Achy, horrible lower back pain... It started when I went on the hormones and I feel in my heart of hearts that its Endometriosis growing rapidly as its continuing to get worse. So frustrated right now.
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Post by semicolon on Sept 6, 2012 21:14:48 GMT -5
Omak, that sounds awful. I hope this improves- do you feel like it started before your hiking disaster?
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Post by omaklackey on Sept 6, 2012 22:51:53 GMT -5
yes, it started several months ago. I had it really bad the morning of the hike though and maybe that's why it went so bad. I think I may need to take it real slow the days I wake up like this. Its not every morning. Its almost always the morning after I have sex, and its also the morning after I do my Premarin (which I only do twice a week)
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 1, 2012 20:33:31 GMT -5
I woke up in such a freakin ton of pain this morning! It got a tiny bit better when I got moving but OUCH!
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Post by omaklackey on Nov 13, 2012 22:19:46 GMT -5
Rough night... so little sleep due to the pain level, lower back pain, achy thing, all night. I was getting ready to decide if I should hit a doctors office and when I got up and moved around this morning it got a little better. I'm so confused by this whole thing. What is causing it? Why does it go away when I get up? I haven't changed anything about how I sleep, although I did get a new body pillow in June. Nothing else has changed. It hit the other day around 10 am in a 12 hour shift. So its not always at night either. I just don't know what to think. Do I hit a chiropractor? Maybe its a pelvic/hip alignment thing? I just don't know.
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Post by semicolon on Nov 13, 2012 22:31:08 GMT -5
Do you think it's nerve related, compression or positional? I know my pain is worse when I stop moving, but I always thought that was a mind-over-matter thing. I can't remember, did you try PT or not have anyone nearby?
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Post by omaklackey on Nov 14, 2012 9:42:14 GMT -5
I need to try something soon. There is a PT two hours away but her first day is $180. I have considered my hubby's chiropractor (just to see if its joint related) because he is only $40 a visit. I have been so busy that I just can't talk myself into money/time wasting but I can't do this. I also wondered if maybe a massage therapist would be more beneficial? They are also only around $40. The real issue is until that scholarship comes in... all my medical bills came in at once, some from a year ago, and we are fighting to keep our head out of the water. I'm so grateful for that scholarship as its going to keep us going but... It can't come soon enough. I will get my school loan money on January second. I have been trying to stretch, massage and do what I can for myself for now. I just worry its something internal? Especially since its not really tied to what I'm doing physically? but I want to try the PPT and massage and what not to see if it helps and if it doesn't, I know I have to go back to Dr. Mos. I don't know. Just need to hold out until January I think. Its just getting so bad, and its more often everyday now. I even wondered if I should go to my local doctor but I know that would just make me angry because they don't have a clue. Nerve, bowels, adhesion's... It could be any or all of the above.
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Post by chibineko717 on Nov 14, 2012 13:33:20 GMT -5
If you are going to make an appointment with Dr. M, make one soon since she is booked really far out this year. I had to wait about 2 and a half months for my last appointment. If it is nerve related, you could try taking some vitamin B12. I lost movement in my left side when I had neck and back issues since my B12 levels were really low. The B12 is supposed to help with the nervous system. Chiropractic can help, but it depends on the type. I've gone through many since regular ones just readjust you and I tend to pop out of alignment right after. I found that the Pettibon system works for me. It combines regular chiropractic with muscle strengthening and at home exercises. You can do some of the at home stuff yourself. My chiropractor had me do spinal reshaping. I was given some hard foam blocks (fulcrums/pelvic block) to lay on and I also found it helps with my endo pain. If you cannot find something like that maybe a foam roller will help. Or you can try to find a piece of hard foam and cut one out yourself. This is what mine looks like. www.migsupplies.com/394_pettibon-system-inc/11510-uncovered-lumbo-dorsal-fulcrum.html I lay on my back on the floor with it for about 20 minutes (you work your way up to how long you can stay on it) before I go to bed. You put it under your lumbar curve and put something heavy on your tummy. I haven't been to the chiropractor for years since I don't have coverage anymore, but doing the at home stuff really helps me.
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Post by omaklackey on Nov 14, 2012 20:39:57 GMT -5
thanks for the reply Chibineko, I definitely prefer docs who teach you at home helps. That's why I prefer a physical therapist to a chiropractor. I don't know if its joint but I have to try something. I should go ask for an ANA at my doctor (for Lupus and RA) and see if something weird pops up.
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Post by semicolon on Nov 15, 2012 7:21:24 GMT -5
As a therapist I'm totally biased, but I would lean toward the PT even if you decide you can only afford maybe 3 visits. I feel that in therapy our goal is to enable you to not have to come to therapy, and a lot of patients come in with the main goal of creating a good home exercise program. Massage is always a good thing, maybe you could ask family for a gift certificate for x-mas (I have been suggesting tha to some of my patients too). It might not help all of you pain issues, but it definitely won't hurt (unless it's crazy deep tissue stuff from idiots who go willy nilly with their elbows - that can actually cause nerve damage!)
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Post by omaklackey on Feb 5, 2013 22:40:33 GMT -5
I'm dealing with a partial bowel obstruction. I keep hoping its going to go away. It's only partial but its a problem. Hurts like the dickens and has been going on now for a week. I know I should go see the doctor before it becomes fully obstructed but I don't want to. (insert whine)
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Post by semicolon on Feb 10, 2013 19:10:44 GMT -5
How are you doing, Omak? Can you eat anything these days?
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Post by omaklackey on Feb 15, 2013 21:57:28 GMT -5
I managed to walk out the blockage during my Nurse Legislation day, climbed up eight flights of stairs to my room at the resort and then played hard all weekend. My belly felt like a rock and on the way home on the bus I was afraid I was going to crap myself but It worked and things are looser, and I did both Miralax and the dulcolax suppositories per my take home instructions from last year. The dulcolax suppositories didn't do it, so the blockage is farther up. I still have a serious issue as things are only coming out in very small diameter so there is a narrowing. I'm so busy right now with school but I also don't want to start my first year as a nurse like this so I have to get to the doctor. Its not very responsible of me to leave it and try and pretend its going to go away.
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Post by semicolon on Feb 17, 2013 17:04:19 GMT -5
Sorry hon, but getting to the doc is the right thing. I feel your pain, I wish something's would just go away but that doesn't seem to happen (new GI doc tomorrow, hope she's good).
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Post by omaklackey on Feb 19, 2013 20:26:21 GMT -5
oh the freaking stupidity. So doctor Mos's RN called back and I explain that I have a small bowel obstruction, that I managed to keep it from progressing with Miralax but the Miralax twice in a week gave me horrible heart palpitations. She tells me the doctor has ordered lactulose, which is something that is used to lower Potassium levels... the heart palpitations are because my electrolytes keep getting out of whack because of the laxatives. I told the hubby that I'm going to take them but then I'm going to go to the ER when those horrible Palpitations kick up so I can prove once and for all that its related. Its driving me nuts! GRR! So anyways... that was my frustrating day. I have a stricture but I can't prove it without a trip to the ER and I don't want it to get that bad. I want to fix it before it does.
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