To Carol one other thing

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Carol,

One other thing I forgot. Sometimes with nerve issues, it can

burn too and I do get a burn on occasion when I get those sharp

pains so sometimes what I do when that happens is to do cool

sitz baths to put out the fire. This will often happen when a

flare comes up out of nowhere like it did recently and had to

start using my baby wipes again to help with some of that fire.

As soon as I went back to my baby wipes I did much better.

As one of the other girls mentioned (Lindsey I think-Lindsey if

it was you thanks for this info) when we have pain our nerves

are always involved.

The problem occurs when there is so much pain (chronic pain)

that the nerves start to misfire instead of trying to calm down

and that's why some use medications like the Elavil and Pamelor

(better for this than Cymbalta because of the way they are

designed). Because those medications help slow down and even

stop the misfiring that the nerves are creating.

I have also been advised to take the medicines like Elavil and

Pamelor and even Neurontin and now Lyrica (Neurontin also used

to be discussed a lot on this list) but I can't take them. I

took Neurontin for a different nerve related problem that I had

in the late 1990s. It did nothing for that problem as long as I

took it by itself.

Another way too that I knew my problem was nerve related was

because when I started to get some of the pain I have been

dealing with the past 9 months not only would the pain radiate

down my left leg it would go all the way down to my foot and

out. And the area where my pain came from since this started 9

months ago came from the area that my Pain Management doctor had

been treating, the nerves that are causing the problem for me:

genitofemoral and ilioinguinal (these nerve branches start at L1

and L2, this is part of the lower back).

And even stranger is that when I went to have surgery last year

to check the status of my endometriosis and the nurse was going

to numben the area of my arm before inserting the IV in to my

vein with the Lidocaine I felt some of the medication going

straight to my vulva.

I have yet to tell my doctor this but will need to if I should

have to have surgery again depending on what I find out about

the results of the test I have to have done in a few weeks after

talking to my gynecologist today about this bleeding issue I've

had.

If I should need to have surgery again I will have to remind my

doctor about putting an order on the chart for them to put

lidocaine on my vulvar area so I won't be in a lot of trouble on

coming out of the anesthetic. I paid big time last year because

I forgot to have her put it on the orders last year.

But because this is a nerve issue for me and because of what

I've been thru in the past 9 months I went to neurology to have

them help me out. I'm going to ask next (after getting my gyn's

opinion and then asking the neurologist) about getting a nerve

conduction study which is kind of what I was hoping to get any

way.

So we'll see in the next few weeks.

Kristy

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