What am I supposed to do now?!?! Please help!

Well, I'm feeling pretty upset and frustrated this morning. Let me start at the beginning: I had open RNY on 4/5/02 and then gallbladder surgery on 5/14/02. For the first few weeks after the RNY I felt fairly normal, just healing from the surgery. But then my gallbladder went bad about 2 weeks before I had it out. Since the gallbladder removal, I've had CONSTANT pain in my back and lower abdominal area. This pain is relentless, and will only go away (most of the time) when I take a Vicodin ES. I'm now working with a GI doctor on this pain and have had an endoscopy, MRCP and more blood work to determine if it is pancreatitis or not. All of these tests came back normal, so the GI doctor thinks I'm having spasms somewhere in my system. So she prescribed Librax earlier this week for the spasms and I started having some concerning side effects, so was taken off of that and just started taking Bentyl last night instead. In the meantime, I have only 4 pain pills left and my surgeon has refused to refill my prescription because I've been using it too long, but also wouldn't prescribe anything else for me. I would agree that I've been using Vicodin for much too long, but I'm also still having a lot of pain, so what else can I do? I know this works for me, and I still need to live my life. So then I called the GI doctor's office to see if they would refill it for me, I was told that she would NOT prescribe more, because my surgeon said no. It is now saturday morning and I don't have enough pain medication to get me through the weekend. I'm scheduled to see my surgeon on monday night and maybe I can get my point across to him that I still need something to help with the pain, but it's gonna be a rough road before that appt. I'm afraid to use the last of my pain pills, because then they will all be gone. But as I sit here, my back is killing me and the Bentyl hasn't helped. I took 2 Tylenol a couple of hours ago, and still no relief. I just don't know where to go from here. I can't get in to see my PCP until at least monday. I guess another trip to the ER is in store for me this weekend. I went to the ER before my gallbladder removal, because that was the only way I could get my surgeon to listen to me. I'm just looking for anyone's thoughts or experiences, and maybe a little advice. Please help!!

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