My 16 year old daughter has extreme pain and we can't find anything that helps?

Question

She had surgery 2 weeks ago to have an appendectomy and they found a large ruptured hemorragoric ovarian cyst, there was also a 2cm hole in her ovary. They have been unsuccessful in giving her anything that works for pain other than in hospital iv or injections. She also has a new ovarian cyst on the same ovary now. Please help me to now what to ask the doctor to do with her pain. she has been sufferring with this since January 28th. I was told that her body does not respond to the normal ones...ie: percocet, vicodin, codine and such...but because of her age, I get the same response which is "pain meds are addicting" and I understand that, but she is on excruciating pain constantly with nothing working. I controll all her meds as well. I give them to her as scheduled...of anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it!

Answer 1

squeaky wheel gets the grease. I would not sit still if my daughter were suffering like yours and I promise you those doctors would not let their child suffer w/ pain. Don't let up or go away until they can relieve her somehow.

Answer 2

I am not a doctor my self. My daughter had the same problem she was 19 and they just removed the cyst. I do not no why they will not take them out. I no it is a risk sometimes if to large they can have to remove the ovary. but not in all cases. Just taking meds is only going to help pain it is not going to make the cyst go away. The sugery is very minor compare to before. get her help dont let her suffer. I see what my daughter went through. I feel for yu good luck hope she gets better soon.

Answer 3

Sounds like she needs an analgesic and anti-inflammatory. What have they done for the hole in the ovary and the cyst problems? she might have an infection in there, you can't leave a hole. They need to reduce the cyst or remove it. What about a pain patch?

Caffeine may increase the effectiveness of pain relievers so maybe drinking coffee or tea when taking something will help. Has she tried ketoprofen or naproxen? There is also nuprin, Orudis, aleve, actron.

There are some external pain relievers, she could try something like heat/warmth, cold/tingle effect, they are skin applicants and when the brain is bombarded with sensations it forgets other pain areas, it's called the counterirritant effect. Menthol, camphor, methyl nicotinate, and methyl salicylate are counterirritants. Sometimes something like capsaicin helps when applied to or near pain areas, it relieves pain because a compound in your body called substance P is involed in sending the pain sensation to the pain center in the brain, applied regularly capsaicin causes P to be depleted from the nerves and without P the pain sensation is not sent to the brain.

They use combo drugs for menstrual pain like pamprin multi symptom has she tried something like that? Sometimes they add diphenhydramine because it causes drowsiness which slows the pain response too.

There are different pain relief patches too like lidocaine, which is pretty commonly prescribed.

I think she needs to go back to a gynocologist for a check on the female problems in case there is infection too.

Answer 4

i had something similar so i got a hysterectomy.. they took out my ovary's , the only think is i couldn't have kids. But you can adopt, I know its not the same but you love them like they were yours. And you have no more pain. Pills are just covering up the problem not solving it. because when the pills wear off the pain comes back. Pain is pain for a reason its trying to tell you something is wrong. Get rid of the source and live.

That's all i got to say about that.
good luck
]god bless
You will make the right decision.
Lu

Answer 5

If she is given anything with codeine, one of the side-effects of this drug is constipation, which is a pain she does not need right now in that area of her body. Get her re-assessed immediately, talk to a PHARMACIST, sometimes they know more about drugs and their side-effects than the doctors do. Get her on a clear-liquid diet at once, as well, restrict any mucous-causing food like dairy products and refined foods (white flour, sugar) and starchy foods. Make sure she is getting plenty of water to flush the poisons out of her system, and watch her temp.

One of the things that occur during surgery is that they pump air into the abdominal cavity in order to see the condition of the internal organs...if there is anything else there besides the thing they are going for. (They did this to my aunt when she had her gall bladder removed) This will cause much post-surgery pain in the form of gas. Her body is trying to get rid of it, and when this happened to my aunt, they also prescribed codeine, and this drug actually made her condition worse because of the constipation it created on top of the gas pains. Once she stopped the codeine, the pain stopped too.

Answer 6

Tell your doctor that you are tired of watching your daughter suffer and he/she is obviously not able to help so you need to see someone that can help. I think what you might want is a referral to a pain clinic. Doctors there have allllll kinds of experience with chronic as well as acute types of pain. They're specialists on pain. If your doc can't do anything for you, move on!!

I am shocked, by the way, that your doc has let your daughter suffer for so long. How does h/she frickin' sleep at night. My gaaaaddd!!

Answer 7

Never ask people questions on yahoo answers when it could be as serious as life and death not to scare you or make the anxiety worse but matters of chest pain with a tingle in the arm should be addressed by a professional asap I hope everything is alright with her and you can have a heart attack at any age for various reasons chest pain with no tingle could be many things growth spurt, gas, pulled muscle list goes on and on but a tingle in the arm accompanied by chest pain or vice versa in most cases has to do with your heart I would ask if your daughter has panic disorders? because they could have fabricated a tingle in the arm from anxiety of the chest pain. I myself have manifested many things do to a anxiety disorder.

Answer 8

You need to go to a pain specialist, they deal exclusively in helping people find medicine that well help them and the doses for them to receive