Hi bluelight
Im currently 29yr old male and am a chronic pain patient.
My pain problems all started in march 2005 after I dislocated my kneecap in martial arts. I tore the medial ligament strutures (MPFL) during this time and was sent to the ER where they popped my kneecasp back into place.
I eventually managed on my own to strech and strengthen the knee to the point where I was able to resume body building and some sports. I only took extra strengh tylenol to rehab from my original injury.
I few years later I damaged my back and shoulder from boxing and developed a condition called winging scapula and long thoracic nerve palsy. This was the end of my bodybuilding career.
I had lived with the pain for awhile until my dad had a sciatic nerve problem and got a perscription for percocets. I treid these and found them amazing for pain relief so eventully went around asking doctors to perscribe me this for my pain. Some of them would perscribe for awhile but evtually cut me off. They told me to go to an orthopedic surgeon.
I went to the surgeon, told him of my problems and he said surgery was more logical than taking the pain meds (10 percocets per month). Big mistake. Surgeons only want to cut and make money. He was only supposed to clean up my knee but ended up doing a procedure called a "lateral release" which cuts the ligaments on the outside of the kneecap to properly algin it. This surgery basically crippled me and has left me in tremendous pain from mid thigh down to the bottom of my foot. THe srugery was done in april 2010.
After about 1 year of physcial distress from the pain and being bed ridden (yes, I grinded through physiotherapy as well for 1 year) I had finally been refered to the pain clinic at a local hospital. They started me off with oxycontin 10mg 2x per day and percocet for break through pain. This was not helpful. I eventually after a month said the pain releif was not adequete and they put me to 20mg oxy 2x per day. This still was not very helpful but I was scared to ask for more pain killers and was worried of addicition so I just stuck with it.
A year later, I am in even more extreme pain, I went back to the pain clinic (today) and they perscribed me hydromorph contin 9 mg x2 per day (or it might be once per day, cant remember) and hydropmorphone 2mg 2 to 3 times per day for break through pain. I have not tried this yet. I tried hyrdomorphone 2mg last month which didnt seem to help much with the pain but made me feel really high.
I am supposed to have a lateral reconstruction of the ligaments that were cut during the surgery in May 2012 but am worried that it may not help or make things worse. There are alot of risks involved with knee surgery and can really make things worse as terrible as they are right now.
Life is hell right now. I used to be relatively active, going for long walks, bike rides, doing bodyweight exercises, some jogging, etc. etc. Now I am bed ridden and can barely limp around the hosue and go to the washroom. I am stressed, my family is stressed. I dont know what the future holds but it dosent look good to be honest.
nyway, that is my story and thanks for reading.
Im currently 29yr old male and am a chronic pain patient.
My pain problems all started in march 2005 after I dislocated my kneecap in martial arts. I tore the medial ligament strutures (MPFL) during this time and was sent to the ER where they popped my kneecasp back into place.
I eventually managed on my own to strech and strengthen the knee to the point where I was able to resume body building and some sports. I only took extra strengh tylenol to rehab from my original injury.
I few years later I damaged my back and shoulder from boxing and developed a condition called winging scapula and long thoracic nerve palsy. This was the end of my bodybuilding career.
I had lived with the pain for awhile until my dad had a sciatic nerve problem and got a perscription for percocets. I treid these and found them amazing for pain relief so eventully went around asking doctors to perscribe me this for my pain. Some of them would perscribe for awhile but evtually cut me off. They told me to go to an orthopedic surgeon.
I went to the surgeon, told him of my problems and he said surgery was more logical than taking the pain meds (10 percocets per month). Big mistake. Surgeons only want to cut and make money. He was only supposed to clean up my knee but ended up doing a procedure called a "lateral release" which cuts the ligaments on the outside of the kneecap to properly algin it. This surgery basically crippled me and has left me in tremendous pain from mid thigh down to the bottom of my foot. THe srugery was done in april 2010.
After about 1 year of physcial distress from the pain and being bed ridden (yes, I grinded through physiotherapy as well for 1 year) I had finally been refered to the pain clinic at a local hospital. They started me off with oxycontin 10mg 2x per day and percocet for break through pain. This was not helpful. I eventually after a month said the pain releif was not adequete and they put me to 20mg oxy 2x per day. This still was not very helpful but I was scared to ask for more pain killers and was worried of addicition so I just stuck with it.
A year later, I am in even more extreme pain, I went back to the pain clinic (today) and they perscribed me hydromorph contin 9 mg x2 per day (or it might be once per day, cant remember) and hydropmorphone 2mg 2 to 3 times per day for break through pain. I have not tried this yet. I tried hyrdomorphone 2mg last month which didnt seem to help much with the pain but made me feel really high.
I am supposed to have a lateral reconstruction of the ligaments that were cut during the surgery in May 2012 but am worried that it may not help or make things worse. There are alot of risks involved with knee surgery and can really make things worse as terrible as they are right now.
Life is hell right now. I used to be relatively active, going for long walks, bike rides, doing bodyweight exercises, some jogging, etc. etc. Now I am bed ridden and can barely limp around the hosue and go to the washroom. I am stressed, my family is stressed. I dont know what the future holds but it dosent look good to be honest.
nyway, that is my story and thanks for reading.
and I also broke sm bones in my foot/ankle. But I had a transected aorta and they just put a wound vac on it while I they waited for me to be strong enough for open heart surgery. i was in a medically induced coma for a month. A couple of weeks after heart surgery and waking up they operated on ankle and knee. Went to a rehabilitation facility and then did outpatient PT for a year. Then my ankle started to swell and that is when things got worse. I had a 2nd clean up surgery on my ankle to remove fluid,inflamation,hardware-2 titanium screws-in march 07. I had PT for a few months again after the cast came off. I thought I could be the extremely physical person I was before my accident...as time went by,both got worse.
