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Old 07-06-2007, 09:58 PM
Ruperts_mom23 Ruperts_mom23 is offline
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I'm feeling a bit more frustrated as of late with the pain and its causing my pregnancy some problems. For the last couple weeks I've been experiencing steadily increasing pain along with more frequent and severe migraine headaches. Migraines have always been a symptom of my TOS but I have found through trial and error that if I don't over-do it, I could keep them down to just a few a month; lately, however, they have increased to three or four a week, regardless of my activity. I do have the TENS unit, which doesn't seem to do hardly anything anymore, and I do have some hydrocodone that I take when the migraines come on, but its becoming a vicious kind of cycle that has me almost to a breaking point. Two weeks ago I had to go to the hospital for pre-term labor because I'd had a particularily bad pain week that caused me just a bit more stress than my body could handle; I'm on partial bed-rest and medication to keep the contractions under control, but the more pain I'm in, the more contractions I have, the more medication I have to take and I would really like to NOT be on the hydrocodone for at least a couple weeks before I deliver so that the baby won't be born dependant. My pain doc can't do a whole lot for me at this point, and my O.B. is just kind of shrugging the pain off like its no big deal. I have thought about maybe switching to different O.B. that would listen to my concerns more than the doc that I have, but I don't know if maybe I'm just over-reacting.
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