She has severe pain in groin and has had it for almost two months, all she does is cry in severe pain and has had every test known to man kind. They are saying now it’s from her bad back but the neurosurgeon said he won’t touch her back because it is so bad. My sister and I are at our wits end in knowing where or what to do. Her bones are literally crumbling.
She needs to be on some serious pain meds, ASAP!
If the person is still mobile enough, a hot bath/shower or a hot whirlpool bath often helps too. Again not too hot, elderly skin is delicate and burns easily. My sister-in-law with RA recently got a walk in tub with a whirlpool and says it helps a lot. but she is in pain a lot these days because her medication has been cut by 75%. Gentle massages and range of motion flexion can help RA too.
Surgery is scary as heck at these ages, too. So risky in so many ways. My two cents, and I do not post much.
I have experienced relief from them, one thin layer of cloth between the ice and my lower back. Allows me to fall asleep, even though a treatment is recommended to last 20 min., several times a day. The good gel packs gradually lose the cold.
I don't have a diagnosis yet, do not know if I have RA, but the groin pain is the worst, really scares me.
Good Luck
we will be seeing her pain management next week and will be discussing a few of these different procedures! Her pain has let up since her hospital stay and injection she recd while there! 🙏 are greatly appreciated!
Untenable pain is the worst. It just sucks the soul out of you. Please get your mom to a pain management clinic ASAP. It's just cruel to spend her life moving ice packs and rubbing her with essential oils. I have mid-range osteo arthritis that is never going to get better---I have tried, for interest's sake, CBD oil, and it didn't do a single thing for me. I think if you THINK it's helping, maybe it is.
Oils and creams have their place, I suppose, but an actual opiate would ease her pain more.
People have become so terrified of addiction---it's insane. I have a friend who had knee replacement surgery and her DH would watch the clock between doses of Norco so she couldn't possibly take 'too many'. Sitting watching her CRYING because the pain was so bad and she had 15 minutes to 'wait'--made me crazy. Then she couldn't get the pain under control. I was taking care of her one day and called her doc and he said 'Oh she can take 1-2 every 4-6 hours--DO NOT let her pain get ahead of her, she won't move and then we have a whole new problem'. She was taking 1 every 6 hours. Moving the dose to 1-1/2 every 5 hours kept her pain at bay. SO WORRIED she'd become an addict.
Don't do that to poor mom, OK?
BTW--most drs will say it's fine to use oils, etc, but will want you to use something that really cuts through the pain. Mostly, with oils, it's the massaging that feels good.
I’ve been on a very low dosage for a year now for maintenance. I took muscle relaxers before when the spasms in my back were severe but they knocked me out. I also developed pain in my lower back that it takes away. If I am not hydrated enough, I find my joints hurt in my fingers and toes. I can add electrolytes and it really helps. I drink too much coffee and not enough water if I’m not paying attention.
My mom’s fingers and toes were cripppled from arthritis but in her very old age they no longer hurt.
I’ve been thinking of trying the “Aging Backwards” exercises by Miranda Edmond-White where the focus is on keeping the connective tissue hydrated and healthy through simple movements. When I catch her on PBS and follow along with her exercises I notice that I feel better for several days. It reminded me of an exercise book called “The Melt Method” by Sue Hitzmann which is for pain management. It seems to focus on the connective tissue as well. Hitzmann’s techniques call for the foam roller exercise aids that you roll on.
I did have the pelvic pain one time and thought it was maybe a UTI. Turned out it wasn’t and the pain moved to my hip ( like old Arthur will do sometimes) and then was gone. So I can sympathize with the location of your mom’s pains.
I hope she’s better soon.
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Three years forward today she is on such heavy narcotics we're amazed she can function. But she's still in pain. So now they're going to give her an epidural.
I'll certainly mentioned the method suggested her. Thank you.
I hope, hope, hope that she can get and will take the pain meds to make her life tolerable!