Torley

I have been having tests to see what pain meds work. Today I had a diagnostic epidural block and I was pain free for 4 hours. This hasnt happened in like 6 years.
I had a lapascopic cholysecectomy 6 years ago, and have had severe pain ever since, Worse when I eat, lie down and in the evening for which I take morphine.
They have tested morhine etc via IV in the last few weeks and other drugs and they havent shown to have helped in reducing pain via pain tests, where I do not know what they have used.
I had a nerve block 2 weeks ago and that didnt work. I have also had my splanchnic nerves cut previously. Up until now they have thought it has been Chronic Pancreatitis.
Last week the Pain Specialist said that he thought that my nerves had been imprinted calling it wind-up pain in his explanation my pain was nto treated properly and has ended up chronic and imprinted?
Today they injected 5 differnt things via the epidural inserted and the 5th one caused my arms, body from breast height to below my navel to be numb and the pain disappeared.

I dont quite know quite what this means and whether, it means tha they can put a block? epidural catheter or somethignm else in to stop the pain.
Does anyone know what this could mean?
I go for another test next week, but today I was so happy at last something that stopped my pain
Not sure where to from here, would welcome input, below is what they did on the test
it took him 75 minutes to get the epidural needles in with misses you wouldnt believe he calle din
my old pain med guy rob, got my old files i told him it took rob 90 minute to do it when he was
half way though and so they grabbed all files and sure enough I was right
well test 1 I reckon was saline I started at 5 no change
test 2 no change
test 3 worse went to a 6 point felt in right then 5 then 4 then 5
test 4 pain 5 pain to left and no change
test 6 well I was over the moon took 4 hours for the block to work off. on test 5 though was pain free/ totally numb breast to below navel and arms for 4 hours and no ****ing pain eg 0/10
I had no feeling eg totally numbed across arms and body ...and this means um................?

I have no idea what this means....with the block working or what it was in it? any ideas? and what
this means for treatment? eg maybe a spinal stimulator or implant pain pump? your thoughts?


Thanks in advance