Hi, i'm hoping you can help my husband.
He is 32 years old 5.9 & 140lbs after
4 surgeries.
Please take the time to read this e-mail
and offer some kind of advice.
He has been experiencing abdominal pain
for the last 6 months (after his 4th
surgery - see end of e-mail for details)
he has never felt this pain before and no
one seems to know what it is to the point
of making us hopeless and frustrated. We
have gone to different doctors, still
nothing.
He can't function at work well due to so
much pain and i'm afraid he is going to
lose his job and I don't know what else to
do. We have had every possible test
done, several endoscopies, several ct
scans, ultrasounds of lower abdominal area
and incisions (the pain is on the left
lower side right under his rib cage -
sometimes putting pressure helps - the
pain is always there)....All tests came
back normal. We have gone to e.R.S for
the last 6 months more than I can count
and after test after test this last time
they just gave him pain meds and sent him
home. This week we have gone there
twice. His doctor told him he has to
cope on how to live with chronic pain for
the rest of his life since he is out of
options and tests. He sent us to a pain
specialist today.
I believe there is hope and someone can
help us. All it takes is one test that
shows us what is wrong so we can fix it.
He cries every night with so much pain and
we don't want to keep taking pain meds
anymore, he is building a tolerance and I
don't want him to be addicted to those
meds and lately they are not even working
anymore and pain is constant. It has
taken over our lives. I know somebody
somewhere has the answer. We have been
married for 10 months and I sure hope we
will be for the next 80 years to come.
This morning at the emergency room I
wasn't so sure he was going to make it.
I don't want to wake up in the middle of
the night with my husband asking me to
take him back to the hospital because the
pain is getting worse and now it hurts to
breathe.
Every minute counts, he has lost so much
weight and he is getting very weak. Can
someone help us and indicate where to go
next? What should we do? What can it
be? Is there somewhere we should go?
If you don't have a way to help us would
you mind forwarding this e-mail to someone
you think can help us? That would be
greatly appreciated.
Please help us.
Luci & del bridges
colorado
4 surgeries in the past 3 years.
1st surgery - funduplication to cure acid
reflux (didn't go well, the esophagus was
completely shut)
2nd surgery - undo the funduplication
(didn't go well, they twisted his
esophagus)
3rd surgery - fix everything
4th surgery - nina - funduplication (after
one month of complication, it has now
cured the acid reflux) - january 2006
