Originally posted by Marco
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could be caused by this pump as well (MS has left me with "mushy muscles and fascia" and several
times the pump has gone on a walkabout...but surgery was easy to relocate it to it's original
position.) I had one time the catheter snaked it's way out of my spine and was still pumping
baclofen into my body. The pump didn't sound because in it's "opinion" it was still pumping
and working fine...it couldn't detect a problem. I realized it because 1/2 of my abdomen looked like I had swallowed a watermelon, whole. So they turned off the pump ( put me in the hospital on some benzo which evidently is the treatment for overdose) until they could schedule the surgery to get the catheter replaced and hooked back up to the pump.
But as far as the Baclofen pump..."if it ain't broke, why fix it". I would see no incentive for me in
replacing the pump with a "new" less tested, pump.
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