My wife has been experiencing steadily increasing right-sided back pain (where the ribs start), which curves around to her abdomen, since February. She had her gallbladder removed 8 years ago, and it's perhaps where the bile duct was clipped.
We are now on a lidocaine patch, 50mcg Duragesic patches q72H, and approx. 4.5 percocet 5's a day.
When this all began in Feb/March, we went to the ER a couple of times and had a few short stays where all labs and scans returned normal... Of course, she was treated like the "drug seeker" and sent on her way with "There's nothing else we can do." For a while, getting adequate pain coverage was a challenge.
She is scheduled to see a pain specialist next week, and we may do a neurologist after; the universal consensus from those MD's who at least tried (and we've seen several) was that she has an idiopathic neuralgia associated with one of the ribs.
Her pain continues to worsen, and we're running out of ideas.
Any thoughts?
2006-07-21
04:05:13
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