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Pain Pump (Intrathecal Pump) Implant (UK)

A pain pump or intrathecal pump is way of giving pain medicine straight into your spinal fluid.

Home care

  • Don't take off your bandages. Your doctor will change your bandages at your follow-up visit.

  • Always wear a T-shirt under your abdominal binder. The binder should never touch your bare skin.

  • Wear your abdominal binder at all the time until your doctor says you may take it off. Your may remove your abdominal binder while you are taking a sponge bath, but put it back on as soon as you finish.

  • Only take sponge baths. Don’t take showers or tub baths. Don't get your bandages wet.

  • Don’t drive until your doctor tells you it’s OK.

  • Take your antibiotics as ordered by your doctor.

  • Unless your doctor tells you otherwise, take all your usual medicines as ordered.

  • Don't take any opioid or narcotic pain medicine. This means you should not take OxyContin, methadone, Demerol, meperidine, Lortab, Duragesic, Kadian, Roxinol, Vicodin, morphine or Percocet. If you take any of these medicines, you could overdose which could cause death.

  • Don't take aspirin for 24 hours after surgery. You may take Tylenol as needed.

Follow up

All follow-up visits will be at Interventional Pain Associates.

 

Go to the Emergency Room at UK Chandler Hospital right away if you have any of the following

  • Temperature above 101.5°F for over 24 hours

  • New numbness or tingling

  • Seeing double

  • Bandages are wet with pink or yellow pus

  • Bandages are wet with bright red blood. Small spots of blood are OK. If your bandages are wet with blood, you should:

    • Cover the bandages with a clean cloth

    • Put pressure on the wound.

    • Go to the local emergency room.

    • Call Interventional Pain Associates at (859) 323-7246 during normal business hours and let us know if this happens. After hours or weekends, call UK HealthCare at (859) 323-5321 and ask for the Chronic Pain doctor on call.

  • Very bad headache with stiff neck.

  • Weakness in your arms or legs

  • Loss of bladder or bowel control

If this happens, have them page the Chronic Pain Doctor on call at (859) 330-4002. Also, call Interventional Pain Associates at (859) 323-7246 during normal business hours and let us know. After hours or weekends, call UK HealthCare at (859) 323-5321and ask for the Chronic Pain doctor on call.

 

 

Interventional Pain Associates at UK Good Samaritan Hospital

310 South Limestone

Lexington, KY 40508

(859) 323-7246

After hours or weekends, call UK HealthCare at (859) 323-5321 and ask for the chronic pain doctor on call.


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