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Has anyone been diagnosed with Abdominal Wall Pain

Chronic Pain | Last Active: Mar 14 12:16am | Replies (282)

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@bebe6 As mentioned my pain is a constant ache of pain from Xiphoid to pelvis, Worst pain is right down the middle. Hurts more to walk, do stairs, move too fast. The only thing that helped me for roughly 48 hours was injections of steroids on each far side of abdomen. The pain mgt doctor did the injections into the ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerves. It didnt help in the first day but a day or so later. You say you have one spot mainly but its top down to lower pelvis. You did mention the xiphoid and I pain right there and its spreads out on each side of ribs. when sitting there is more pressure pushing up the middle of abdomen up to under xiphoid. Like there is pressure pushing out. I dont really have any back pain but sore due to sitting too much and hunching over. Do you have pain everywhere when you press into your abdomen or just the one spot. If you push into my abdomen anywhere down the middle it hurts, in the pelvis it seems deeper. Its very hard not having a diagnosis and some form of treatment. You mentioned the rectus muscle, I don't know if I have one key spot but my rectus/wall just aches. Like you scans didnt show anything. Celiac Plexus, Hypogastric Plexus and Splanchnic block you should look into. If it helps then you can see about ablation of the focal nerve. That is what I am hoping for whether I get this done before or at my Mayo appt in Feb. I just dont understand how something can be in pain every minute except sleeping and that it has only gotten worse every month for me since 4/1/18.

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Thank you for sharing! I'm hopeful that I'm on the right path and I hope that your appt in Feb shines some light on what needs to be done to get you out of pain. My doctor prefers to be systematic and methodical. Of course, after 20 months of constant pain, I'm looking for relief NOW. However, I have to work within the system. Once you are in chronic pain the system moves very slowly....sadly. I'm at the "wait and see what the trigger point does over the next week" phase. Next step is to repeat the injection and depending on what happens, he has suggested the TAPS injection as the next step. We discussed the celiac plexus block and splanchnic block as future plans. I am also looking to get an appt. at Stanford with a Dr. Thomas Wilson, a peripheral nerve surgeon, to assess for potential nerve ablation or nervectomy. One step at a time.