[kat2290]

For the last year or so my partner has been suffering from bad abdominal discomfort everyday, when he's lying down in bed its ok but once he's up and about in his chair it starts and it's made worse by going over bumpy terrain etc. It's not a sharp pain, more of a dull background aching as if you're constipated however we know he isn't, he does his bowels everyday and the pain is still there just after he's done them.
We are desperate to work out what it is as it's really starting to hold him back in life, he's only 21 but he's so sore every day that he rarely feels up to much. He's dying to get back to work but can't because the pain is so debilatating.

Please help, we're really at our wits end now!

[cubanito_016]

I am 19 years old Ive been in this wheelchair for 1 year and a half already and Ive been having this abdominal pain since 3 moths after my injury.I know it hurts so much its this feeling of fulness or stabing and cramps and its not constipation or excessive gas its youst neuropathic pain.I heard of many people going thrue the same situation some could manage their pain and some cant cause the pain is to much.In my case sometimes some days the pain hurts but I could manage it and there are days the pain is to much and its to hard to manage it.I didnt do enything before cause of the pain and I went to alat of neurologist and all they did is send me pain medication which always had me high.So one day I stop taking so many pain medication and I youst stay with the lyrica and started to manage my pain and try to live a good life and forget about the pain even if I had it.Some days its easy to manage it and some day its very hard to but still I do .I youst try to be as active as I cant and youst forget about the pain.Tell your partner I understand the pain cause its a bitchy pain and it hurts like a motherf*@ker.I ask myself sometimes god why does it have to be in my stomach why not in my leg or something but life is a bitch so we cant do nothing about it.

[edlee]

Cubanito has about nailed it. Hurts like hell sometimes,, sometimes not so much. Unfortunately it gets worse,, or did for me, anyway. At five years out. I've decided to try a pain clinic.

This guy, here , calls it an Interventional Therapy Clinic,,,, It's his office,, he can call it what he wants, I guess. Anyway, I'm going to get an epidural shot of cortocosteroids in my back,, above the pain. Kind of like the shots you get for bursitis,,, which I've gotten and been pleased with the result.

It's scheduled for a week from monday, so I'll let you know how that goes.

Bottom line is,, I don't want to get started on opiates,, I'd rather go no farther than gabapenti or lyrica if at all possible.

Sorry I can't help, but at least you know you aren't alone in this.
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