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lorraine · 2013-10-06T01:44:21+00:00

I had surgery 11 weeks ago and have proably not been without pain since. Initially I accepted the pain was to be expected for sometime after surgery. However probably after 3 weeks of Panadol/Nurofen regime having no effect I realised the pain was different to surgery and healing pain. It was stabbing, burning pins&needle and numbness. I spoke to my OT who sent me back to the Dcotors at the Hand Surgery Clinic and I was prescribed Pregabalin 75mg twice daily. I took one at night and went to bed, took one the next morning and went off to work only to be lead to sick bay by 12noon to have 2.5 hrs sleep. Went back to the Doctor and they prescribed 25mg twice daily, no improvement in pain. Since then I have played around with my dosage and can manage 75mg at night and 50mg in the morning. However, the results are minimal and in particular night time is the worst, not getting much sleep and have to work. My biggest concern is that this may become a long term thing as the way it has been described to me is the nerve had been bruised and will heal or it has been damaged and????????. Can anyone give me any hope that after this length of time the nerve may still only be bruised or if you have ongoing nerve pain have you been able to control it?

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Dupuytrens surgery and nerve pain

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10/17/2013 03:07

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10/17/2013 03:07
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Re: Dupuytrens surgery and nerve pain

callie:
I only had one OT session after my surgery (90 degrees, little finger) to get a splint made and get a list of exercises. My surgeon thought that was no problem if I did the flexing and massage on my own. I did and have had excellent results.

That is excellent Callie! I thought I would be the same but was I ever wrong...

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