I have had quite a week. Sunday evening my husband called an ambulance I was in so much rib pain. It subsided enough, that I didn't go ahead and let them take me. But then, later in the night, it started up again. So we went to the E.R. which is about 60 miles away. They did CT Scan, EKG, blood tests, but couldn't find what was the cause. They initially thought it might me a stone left from the gallbladder surgery last Monday...but didn't find anything that would relate it to the surgery.

I kept asking if it was the ms rib banding. They all acted like they had never heard such a thing. My neuri wasn't there. So it was all drs I had never seen before. It finally died down Monday, so I just came on home. It's so scary to not know what to do when it hurts so much. I have never been a complainer, just withstand pain and go on. But this was at least equal to my labor pain with no breathe time in between. The spells would last about an hour. Then would subside for a while and start up again. The morphene wasn't even completely stopping it.

I seem okay right now. I'm thinking I may need to find a neurologist who is more specialized with MS. He is a good doctor and maybe he will have some ideas when I do get to talk with him. But it's such a helpless feeling.

Thanks for listening!
~friend

Next time, maybe you could ask for a small amount of Baclofen to see if that helps. Baclofen is an anti-spasmodic/muscle relaxer med

http://www.drugs.com/baclofen.html

I had an ulser after my GB surgery...could that be it??

im stubborn about going to docs and ER, but after surgery and u get sharp pain u go dont chance it glad u finally went better to be safe than sorry, yeah i know its annoying u go and no answer, at least it wasnt a bad answer .

getting a neuro who is an MS specialist may not be a bad idea

hope you are not over doing it, take it easy, good hunting on ms doc

Friend I hope you're feeling better now. It's so scary when the reason for the pain is unknown but it's bad enough to warrant a trip to the ER. I'm glad it's subsided some now. It's also frustrating when the doctors and nurses in the ER look at you like you're crazy when you ask MS related questions - it's frightening how much they DON'T know about the disease.

I hope today is better for you.....

Any better today, Friend?

Sometimes you can have a stone left in the duct. Sometimes it can be hard to see/fine. IF you have it again, demand an ultra sound of the area. They may have you stand WHILE e/s you so they may be able to see the stone drop (that is what they had to do for me).

I have no experience with the MS hug, so I can't answer that.

Could it have been gas pain? GERD?

Hope you are feeling better!!! And hope you don't get it again!

Glad to hear you are feeling better today Friend, I hope it continues to go away.....

Sounds a little like my reaction to morphine that I was given for a severe headache in ER once.

Mine was at the top of my ribs tho. They think it might have been the morphine messing with my pancreas (pancreitis,sp).

Awful pain, worse than labor and would just come in waves and go on and on! No more morphine for me.