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hi, i'm finally back online....
like yourself madz i have spd. i am still in throes of it, and ave ad to fight so so so hard to get both treated and taken seriously. sympathetic health care professionals really had nothing to do with it at the end of the day, as they changed theor minds as much as the hours on the clock changed!
i found myself in such a pickle just lying on the sofa that we had to call an ambulance to come help! talk about embaressed, or what! i thought that they could help me get up to a sitting position then go. i even niaevly only took 4 puffs on the entonox, thinking that would be enough to get me moving.....several hundred puffs later and an admission into the local maternity hospital, i discovered that they would keep me in and try the original pain releif regime first that i was on (bearing in mind it clearly wasn't working, or else i wouldn't have been there...minor point!) if there was no success then i would be allowed one shot of pethidine. only hiccup top this was that the dr then sent me from the delivery unit tot he ward with nothing written up and nothing yet administered! to cut a long story short, as i write as i talk...alot, i ended up on the ward for 15 days and had been taken from one extreme to the other with being denied help and offered help. i had a referral to the pain team, this came after the midwives had fought v.v. hard to get me something stronger than paracetomol. i saw the pain team who said tramadol 100mg 4x day with paracetomol 1 g 4xday, then oramorph (morphime syrup) 10mg 2 hrly for break through pain. trouble was the chart was in pharmacy for 5+ hrs so come the night when i suffer alot anyhow, i had more pain as i had been untreated for so long as well. the next morning they came for the review i told them i had suffered aterrible night and puit forward my theory about having alot of pain and then the 5 hrs worth of untreated pain on top to also combat that it was possible it was going to take long time to get on top of. the team decided, however, to put me on fentanyl lozenges as well as the other tablets, but take me off oramorph. i was more than a little freaked about it, the baby got sleepy and to be honest i felt that the pain still was more of an issue than should be. i gave it a few days then asked to see the pain team again, although discharged with no formal review. i am back on tramadol, paracetomol as before and the oramorph same dose but around4xdaily, amytriptilline 10mg at night. it has been a v. stressful process and continues to be. i'm, now 38wks+4 preggers and scared about the future.
i am so sorry it has taken so many words to say so little, but, i have thought of you all daily but have not been able to sit at 'puter long enough to write. in fact will go lie down now, hope to check in later!
for those of you left with nasty gp's who think that paracetomol is all that you can have do not lose hope. try your midwives or the on call midwives...failing that walk into a+e. there are ways round it, be prepared for a fight, you are doing the right thing trying to get relief for yourself as your new baby, and your family do not need or want you to end up as a fruit loop as the pain has eaten away at you.
keep the faith
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Topic: pain relief during pregnancy
