To ask for 'old fashioned' pain relief methods ?

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I'm on day 3 of a flare up of chronic abdominal pain . Due to side effects GP won't prescribe me anything more than 2mg diazepam and 8mg codeine and doesn't want me to take them too often. Anything more and I end up being catheterised due to retention . GP said they acknowledge I'm sore but it isn't 'life threatening' and it will go eventually if I can fight through it ..

Pain is constant and unrelenting. Blacked out Sunday night , slept most of yesterday and had a weird episode when my boss phoned and I had no idea what we were talking about. Have had to sign myself off work yet again :(

I don't know what to do. I've to walk up to the surgery for more diazepam and anti sickness stuff but I'm going mad. It's to the stage I'm punching the bed crying because it just won't go.

Have tried heat , exercise , a shower and nothing helps. Usual triggers are going to the toilet , lying flat, anything involving pelvic muscles or pelvic floor.. Have got adhesions and a cyst and waiting on a diagnostic lap to confirm/rule out endometriosis :(

I don't know what the bloody hell I can do.

How horrific for you - you must be so strong to cope with that level of pain for so long. I'm glad you are in hospital now and something will get done. Good luck!

I hope they can help- emergency surgery or not, as long as it helps. Kind thoughts xx

You need support from a chronic pain clinic

After standard pain killers you could try tens, they even do a pen version available at pharmacies

Low dose anti depressants like amitrityline or nortriptyline are the next line followed by gabapentin

Good luck. Thinking of you and hope you are able to go in soon for your surgery.

Please don't be terrified, it's a positive step even worst case scenario of a resection may well leave you in a better state than you're currently in

No surgery today, I've had a drink and peed now (without the need for a catheter of any sort). They've proven to me that an 'in out' catheter is much less painful than I anticipated. Very hungry, dinner trolley is up now so hopefully get something. My GP is going to ring me as well , I phoned them saying I was quite worried as she and I had been talking about avoiding admission etc only a fortnight ago and yet here I am again..

Got a lovely ham salad and mash potato for tea , hopefully chicken and chips for lunch tomorrow. Desperate for my own bed now , hospitals are noisy at night :( morphine making me feel a bit pissed too.

At least at the hospital you have doctors somewhere in the building who can write you a script if in agony.

I hope your night isn't too bad.

Hope you're getting a bit of sleep if poss, good luck.

Slept for a couple of hours , woke up disorientated and tearful. Had a weird dream that my boss kept saying this isn't my fault . Feeling very lonely and wanting my own bed , my mum , my dog and my life back.

Oh you poor love
Hospitals are such strange and disorientating places anyway. Then add in exceuitatimg pain and opiates, and it's no wonder you're feeling so horrid.

Would it help to try to focus on 'normal life', boring things like shopping lists and dry cleaning?! Dull things can anchor you when you're feeling like a cast away drifting in an unknown sea... also repeating to yourself 'this will go quick, back home soon'. This is just a little blip in your everyday life. Once you're out and feeling better all this will fade away, as real life takes over again.... xxxx

Morning shouldnt. Am in such empathy for you. Unfortunately I have had severe endometriosis for quite some years now, and if this is what you have I understand the agony only too well. As I frequently tell my doctors, I would rather have my 36 hour nightmare labour with my eldest any day of the week lol. Even more sympathetic as am currently also in hospital, having had emergency surgery for appendicitis which has also badly affected my endo. (I have what's called stage IV deeply infiltrating which means it's throughout my bowel and digestive system). If I can help answer any questions for you, or just a chat and some reassurance, please feel free to pm.

Hugs and a speedy recovery

Oh dear havent I've posted on your other threads. Sorry you're still suffering! I've got chronic abdominal pain too and it sucks! No idea what's causing mine. GP thinks it's bowel related although my colonoscopy was normal.

I really hope this admission is the one that gets to the bottom of your problems. I also think you should consider changing GPs! Get well soon.

I hope you have some progress but fear that it being a Friday you are looking at Monday now.