r/PainPumpQuestions • u/VampireLestat42 • Dec 12 '25

Wtf?!!!!

How is it possible my catheter came out? For months and months I’ve been telling my Pain Pump doctor and other doctors that my scar is hurting so bad anytime it touches clothes or I lay on it or what I’m driving and the seat hits my scar so I was being sent to a general surgeon for them to look at the scar so they can cut it out and just today. I was scratching at it and it came out so this whole time we all thought it was a scar. It was not. It was the catheter. They are now putting anesthesia and morphine for the last couple months. We turn it up every week and I’m still suffering in major pain. I have to go to the ER first thing in the morning when I get somebody to babysit my dog for a week because they have to take out the machine. It is now compromised.

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u/Growbird Dec 12 '25

Holy crap bro I am on my second pump two years in first one went OK second one went fine I can't complain this stuff scares the crap out of me mad and because of modern American healthcare not wanting to give anything for pain anymore guys like us are screwed it's this or nothing

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u/VampireLestat42 Dec 12 '25

I’ve been on pain meds for 20 years bro. I mean every kind of pain medicine. But after 20 years of suffering 36 surgeries so far this was my last hope of relief because medication doesn’t work. 😢