Celiac Plexus Blocks Please Help, Getting One Tomorrow!!

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Sorry for the cheesiness of this email...I'm actually

cutting/pasting something I wrote to another person earlier only

because I'm so weak and still not good after this awful attack from

the demons from hell which I'll semi-describe below. But, what I

need help on are success/failure stories on celiac plexus blocks.

I'm scheduled for one tomorrow at 10 am..I'm sooo hoping it will

work. Also, please let me know if you think they're more likely to

work on someone with (a) SOD and ( EARLY cp....like since last

Jan/Feb timeframe...i.e., are they more like to work in someone that

hasn't had cp for very long than in someone say that has had cp for

YEARS? Sorry I haven't written much....but here is why in a sort of

summary....

my Mom is here on an emergency visit because I've been soooooo

sick. It all started last Tuesday when I )stupidly in retrospect!)

started getting constipated which apparently can cause nausea which

I've had SEVERELY, OVERWHELMINGLY since last week. Tried to get

myself " cleaned out " with enemas, suppositories, etc., finally went

to doc on Thursday and he advised (stupidly!!) to take an entire

bottle of magnesium citrate.....well, I did and had the most severe

case of pancreatitis and nausea at the same time that I actually

thought I was going to die....went to ER, they basically did nothing

but treat the pain and nausea with dilaudid and phenergan. Tomorrow

am scheduled for a celiac plexus block after spending almost all day

today at the pain management specialist on an emergency appt. I have

NEVER had an attack like that and hope I NEVER do again. I really

just wanted to die...mostly the nausea, I just couldn't stand it it

was so awful!!! Couldn't sleep, could't eat...nothing.....nothing

was helping. Went outta here in the ambulance on Sunday to ER (as

mentioned above.).....these doctors are clueless....put a call into

Dr. L....he said they NEVER should have advised magnesium citrate in

that amount in a patient with a pancreas problem (however, this was

the doctor he recommended.....go figure.) gotta go for

now.....please say a prayer that this celiac plexus block works....I

sure am. I can't take this anymore...and of course, now this new

doc is refusing to sign onto the disability retirement thing because

I've only seen him twice. Well, hello, not my fault that you book

like 3 months out......take care and hope you're ok.

love,

P.S. If you know of anything about the celiac plexus blocks please

let me know ok? Thanks