Chronic Back Pain And Morphine Pumps
Constant and unbearable back pain over a period of time is chronic back pain. Over the counter medications to treat this type of condition, will just give you temporary relief. Painkillers can not level the back pain area. They can suppress it for a while and give you the joy you sought for, fort a short duration. Then you are back to square one- back pain!
What will you do now? This time, you have decided to get rid of this depressing pain, once for all. For the last more than six months, you are not responding to any medical or surgical care. What could be the reason for your chronic pain? It may be due to an old injury, completely healed, but showing its ugly face again. The God forbid, it might even be due to an impending cancer attack, not yet detected by your doctor!
This information is for the people who love statistics. An estimated $ 100 billion a year in medical costs, working days lost, and compensation paid to the workers suffering from back pain. Well, such is the pain budget of USA.
Desperate situations lead you to desperate remedies. Whether the remedies are worthwhile, it is altogether a different matter. Even after multiple surgeries, even after taking all sorts of medicines, when the pain still persists, you indeed cut a sorry figure about yourself. You become cynical and develop depression. In such a situation, if someone gives you the idea of spinal pumps and stimulators, and tells you the related success stories, you are bound to consider that option as well.
In the final stage of the chronic back pain, when it becomes unbearable, you suffer from loss of appetite, nausea, constipation and severe lethargy. This is mainly due to the medication of painkillers you have taken over a long period. As a pain controlling exercise, there are instances when the patients have taken 300 milligrams of morphine per day, to get relief.
Now the same stuff, morphine is taken in a different manner, but the quantity is drastically reduced- just one milligram per day. This is done with the help of intrathecal spinal pumps.
The medicine reaches the spot where it is exactly needed. The medicine is given by implanting surgically a pump under the skin of a person’s abdomen and running a catheter to the correct location in the spine, in the pain giving area. The medicine thus, provides instant pain relief and the dose of medication is reduced drastically.
As on date, chronic back pain sufferers, admit that they are benefited a lot, with morphine through pump method. In the times to come, you will hear more opinions about the utility of this system.
Ashish Jain
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6 Responses to “Chronic Back Pain And Morphine Pumps”
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Has anyone had a pain pump installed in their abdomen? I am considering it for chronic back pain. Suggestions?I have tried many different pain pills. I am currently taking morphine orally. I am hopeful about the pain pump and would welcome input. Thanks for taking the time to answer.
Take the time to find a good neuro-muscular massage therapist.
Mine did what no chiropractor or other doctor could do.
Good luck!
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I don’t know much about it personally, but you might want to Google Jerry Lewis. I know he has one and has been on talk shows telling about how it changed his life.
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Deborah STOP it will not help in the long run.
Deborah I was crushed under 30 tons of rock and I have 23 torn nerves coming out the left side of my spine and 16 on the right side of my spine. I was on 18 pills of Peradan a day and two patches of morphine on my belly. and I was taking three shot a day of Toradol and I had 16 patches on my back with electric charges. I wore 4 double output tens units. After 27 years and the lose of 4 cubic inches of lung and then being told I had six months left and was on 5 liters of O2 I took the matter in hand.
I got on distilled water which is an insulator for electricity. That is what is in your nerves. The pain slowly went away as the effects of the water increased. The lung has growen back and the tubes came out of my nose and all the patches came off along with the tens units. The needles stop and the pills were discontinued. Now I use yoga or meditation and I drink a gallon a day of distilled water and and lots of veggie juice and one glass of Orange juice concentrate with one can of distilled water added. Without trying I only eat one meal a day about 1/2 of what I used to eat and have no desire for more food. THE PAIN IS AT LESS THAN 1 ON THE 1 TO 10 SCALE. Where before it was 11 on a scale of 1 to 10 much of the time.
Deborah distilled water is an insulator. Even lightening will not pass through it.
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Deborah, first off Jerry Lewis has a Neurostimualtor Implant not a morphine pump implant. I know this because we are both Ambassadors for the same company.
I had a Neurostimualtor implant 2 years ago and it totally changed my life.
The pump was not an option for me because my pain area is large.
The Neurostimulator uses electricity not pain killers.
I was able to get off of all those massive doses of Morphine and other drugs.
As an Ambassador for Medtronic I have heard really good success stories about the pump that you are talking about.
It has relife(sp) to so many people.
If you would like to see how much a Medtronic implant how helped me. Go to
http://www.tamethepain.com.au Wendy’s story.
It will allow you to leave a lot of your pain pills behind as the morphine or other pain control is delivered directly to the site of your back pain.
If you would like to ask me any question you can e-mail me through this site or the Medtronic Tame the Pain site.
To read Jerry Lewis’s story it is on
http://www.tamethepain.com
I hope to hear from you.
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Implant patient
Is this your idea or, the doctors? I’ve known several people with these, they are not the cats meow.
I’ve lived on drugs all my life under pain management and was asked if I wanted to have a pain pump put in, I told them "No"
The neruostimulator sound good, think of this. I was asked about this also, for the severe damage I have to my spine.
Your going to get a lot of far out ideas here, be careful and always talk to your doctor first, take his advice.
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