>----- Original Message -----
From: "Colette " <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: PLEASE...Share types of discomfort and pain that adhesions can
cause...
> Hi Rose!
> What you wrote is very well said thats exactly how i feel!
> i could'nt say it better myself! I know i'm not preggers cause i have
> nothing left either lol! So thank you for describing how i feel:0.
> Love ya Colette
> >
> >OH, oh, pain, how you discomfit me, let me list the ways:
> >
> > - can't hold my p.
> > - catch in my hip
> > - muscle cramps down my leg
> > - spasms in my lower back
> > - first too much sh--, then, oh then, the cramping and then - none
> > - constant pulling, hot pain in my lower right pelvis
> > - nausea
> > - swelly belly - can't be preggers, nothing of THAT left in there
> > - nagging low level all-the-time throbbing in the belly button area
> > - need more sleep than a new-born
> >- gain weight when you can eat (your body is in starvation mode from
> >when you can't and sucks up every ounce of calories you choke down)
> >- lose weight when you can't (so now 'they' think you have an eating
> >disorder)
> >- eternal search for a pain medication regimen that gives some kind of
> >life
> >
> >to continue with the saga, let us show the ways we pay:
> >
> > - doctors telling us it's all in our heads
> > - psychiatrists referring us back to those same doctors cause it's real
> > - family, co-workers and friends disbelief and avoidance
> >- continual stress dealing with uneducated ER personnel, physical
> >therapists, etc.
> >- phone calls, letters, e-mails to insurance carriers trying to get
> >proper care.
> >- depression, loss of self esteem, suicidal ideation and
> >anti-depressants that don't do anything for the underlying cause.
> >
> >Phew.....what a life!
> >
> >kcmo rose
>