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ACNES, Abdominal Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome

Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 16 2:32pm | Replies (305)
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Good morning Jeff,
I have a question for you.
How was your surgeon able to isolate which nerves to cut? Where was the location of your pain?
My 1st procedure having the intercostal nerve blocks at different nerve locations along my right side of the underneath of my ribs around to my back is this Tuesday, the 28th.
This will be a diagnostic procedure to isolate the nerve/nerves. They use anesthetic for the Nerve Blocks. If this procedure is successful, then Radio Frequency Waves will be used to sever the nerves at each point.
I'll keep ya'll posted on my progress!
My procedure is being done at UF Pain Management Gainesville.
Dr. Fagiro is an anetheseoligst pain management doctor.
Please say a pray for me.
God Bless 🙌
Victoria Sarosy

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jgroudan | @jgroudan | Feb 26, 2023

Hi Victoria,The first doctor to identify it being ACNES was an anesthesiologist at pain center who injected lidocaine trigger point shots in the area just below the right rib cage.  That brought temporary relief (day or so) but pain returned.  The surgeon, Dr Gillespie, then examined me including the Carnett test.  Dr Gillespie then robotic laparoscopically went in and saw T9 was inflamed with less inflammation for T8 and T10 so correctly severed all three.  Went home from hospital late afternoon sore but cured.  Been 18 months zero pain.

Dr Gillespie is a top surgeon at St Joseph's , not an anesthesiologist.  You can see almost exactly how it is performed by going on YouTube entering Robotic Laparoscopic Hernia procedure.  Same area.My prayers are with you,Jeff 

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losinghope27 | @losinghope27 | Feb 28, 2023

Hi Victoria,
I saw your post about using Radio Frequency Waves to sever the nerves at each point. I was curious to see how it went. I wonder if this is similar to Dr. Gillespie's procedure to sever nerves T8, T9 and T10?

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