Re: Chronic pain/GastricByPass

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Doctors are famous for blaming pain on things like being overweight. Mine

told me a CPAP would bring my pain levels down. Instead, it has gone up from

the pressure of the mask and headgear.

I don't know anyone with fibro who has had gastric by-pass surgery, so I can't

help you with that. It makes me think twice about doing having one, though. I

have been considering it. It's just another severe physical trauma, so I can

see why in theory it may make pain worse.

Maxine

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Hi PL

I have not had a gastric by pass but I am wondering if your pain increase is

due to a decrease in the ability absorb your pain medicine. Also have you

increased your activity level to fast?

Just some thoughts

Kaylene

>I was wondering if anyone has experienced the problem I'm having.

>I've been suffering from chronic pain for years (DDD, DJD,

>Myofascial, Psoriatic Arthritis) and have gone from using Tylenol #3

>to Oxycontin and Vicoden to having to go on Kadian about 6 weeks

>ago as pain increases.

>For years my doctors told me that if I lost weight my pain levels

>would decrease so last April I had the GBPass. However around 2 to 3

>months after the surgery the opposite occured-- my pain levels went

>through the roof. It was as if when the weight came off at about 30

>pounds that the pain just kept increasing with each pound lost. ( I

>have a great deal of muscle loss as well.)

>The reason I am wondering if there is a correlation is because of an

>off hand remark my Internist made. She said that she had 5 patients

>who've had the GBPass and 3 of them have had an increase in pain.

>I was wondering if anyone here had experienced this of have any

>knowledge of this.

>Thanks for taking the time to read this.

>PL

>

>

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[Guest guest]

---PL,

I have not had the bypass, but I have lost about 35-40 pound since

June...and my chronic pain definately increased, even though

everyone told me it should decrease due to less stress on my

deformed spine. Sorry I am not much help...but hang in there...we

are here for you

Love and blessings,

Lee

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Lee

Thank yo so much for getting back to me. there is something

definitely going on that they have not done much research on. I

went on a gastric by pass site and had a few people write saying it

happened to them.

Did you talk to your docotr/s about this issue?

PL

[Guest guest]

---PL,

I have a guess about it (esp. in my case, but could apply to others)

This is just my opinion.... I think my spine got used to/adjusted to

the extra weight, and then when I lost alot of weight so quickly

(the last 20 is not as easy...lol) and my center of gavity shifted

back to more " normal " it caused my spine to shift further out of

alignment (I have spondylolisthesis) but I think a body having to

readjust quickly causes more pain...the weight went on slowly and

the body adjusted accordingly, but when a drastic change happens the

body can't compensate quickly enough...causing more pain until it

can shift/adapt or what ever. This may or not make sense medically,

but it was the only thing I could think of to explain my sharp

increase in pain seemingly over night. I have not talked to the

doctor about it...my mother (an RN) just keeps insisting to me that

less weight is better for my back...

Happy New Year!

Blessings,

Lee