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Old 08-07-2012, 03:35 PM
besidemyself besidemyself is offline
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Default Pain Pump clamp to secure the catheter problems

Has anyone who has a pain pump had problems with the hardware they use to secure the catheter down? Immediately after coming out of recovery after having mine installed in Oct 2012, I had the most horrible pain in my lower back at the incision site. After many months of complaining about this, I found out it was a huge piece of plastic they use to clamp down the catheter. I don't know if all doctors secure it down in the same place, but mine is right at my tail bone, so every time I sit, or try to bend at a certain, stand for a few minutes at a time, or lay down on it, it causes excrutiating pain. I complained about it immediately after the surgery, but the complaint was literally ignored like it didn't exist. If any of you read my other posts, the pain pump had also been RECALLED, but I hadn't found out about this yet. The recall issue is not what was causing the pain.... but, I didn't understand why my doctor was ignoring the fact that I had a brand new pain since the pump was installed. I had to find out from Dr. 2 what the problem was. It has been 10 months now since I had the pump installed. The pain has become more tolorable than the first 4 months, when I was literally disabled from it. But just wondering if anybody else has had this problem and how it was fixed.
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