Keith.Jones@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Jones) (05/30/91)
Index Number: 15871 [This is from the Spinal Injury Conference] Liz, I am sorry I have not gotten back to you. Had problems with my computer and then moved from Phoenix to Cleveland. Then I had to find this echo and that took time. Don't know if its too late to help or not. For what its worth, the procedure is a fairly simple one. Morphine is injected into the trouble spots. It is relatively painless and takes less than a minute. For me the injections did not help my pain at all. One very serious side effect, however, was that it shut my bowels and bladder down. Had terrible bladder spasms and could not go. I was up all night self-cathing to stay out of pain. Fortunately this problem subsided in about 24 hours. I had a neurosurgeon schedule the injections. I don't know who did them. I was never forewarned about the bowel and bladder complications. But this doctor was not a specialist in the problems of spinal cord injury. I have learned the hard way to make sure you get a doctor knowledgeable in spinal cord pathology before you have any spinal cord injury-related procedure done. Sorry again for the late reply. Let me know what happened or did not happen. -Keith- -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!157!3!Keith.Jones Internet: Keith.Jones@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org