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Chronic unremitting lower abdominal pain quickly abrogated following treatment with amphetamine
Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology
|April 7, 2016
Abstract
Purpose:
To describe a cause and treatment for chronic unremitting lower abdominal pain of long duration with unknown origin.
Materials And Methods:
A 50-year-old woman with 30 years of unexplained right lower quadrant pain was treated with dextroamphetamine sulfate.
Results:
Dramatic complete abrogation of the pain occurred within two weeks. The complete relief persisted for two years while she remains on therapy.
Conclusions:
Symphathetic neural hyperalgesia edema syndrome should be considered whenever there is refractory pelvic or abdominal pain.