Did you have burping associated with the pain? But about the SP pain, five years post since having the SP I still get a stabbing pain right there. I try taping, moving it but it goes away in a day, maybe. The area is sometimes blood and is often after a change. Doesn't make sence but large water intake seems to help.
Merrill From: Greg [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Passing Out I have always had dizzy spells since my injury. Especially just after or while I'm eating. I've always had to wear a belly binder. But these last 4 days have been really bad. Thursday, just after I got up I got a really bad pain in my abdomen. I mean wanting to bend over type pain. First I thought gas, but then I remembered it happened a few times before and it was always my catheter. Just changing it and the pain would always go away. But this time the pain came back after a few hours. And I got so dizzy I could not sit up. I'd start to get tunnel vision, everything going black. I had a doctor's appointment that day and my blood pressure was 71/4?. I'd move the catheter around and the pain would go away, but then it would come back. I've been getting really extra bad dizzy spells the last few days too. Finely today the pain is gone, but I'm still a bit dizzy. Any time I exert myself I get dizzy, but at least it's not too bad today. I don't have to recline all the time. I'd go nutz without a tilt/recline on my chair. As a C/5 I didn't think I could feel my bladder, but it sure can be painful. I have an SP cath, no UTI, it's not clogged, it's draining fine. It's been a bad weekend, I almost went to the ER. At least it's getting better. Greg _____ I have had my C-5 injury short of twenty years now. In this time I have become familiar with low blood pressure. To help I have taken Ephedrine, Modderin and Espresso coffee. The abdominal binder is a major help This past year there has been an increase in episodes of nearly passing out, or whiting out as I describe. Fortunate for me is the tilt on my wheelchair where I have been increasingly spending much of my time. Lately if I begin talking I be come faint. I am worrying that something else is going on but wonder if this is common amongst older quads.
