Adhesion Pain
From: Dana (DMSmith00@aol.com)
Mon Feb 28 09:58:32 2000
Hello everyone.
I've been reading a lot of the messages posted
for quite some time and they have been a lot of
help to me. I have had five abdominal surgeries,
with four of the surgeries occurring within the
last five months. Let me briefly explain.... On
9/30/99 I had a beautiful baby girl by c-section.
Two days later, I had to have an emergency lapa-
rotomy due to the fact that my abdomen was severely
distended (I looked like I was pregnant with quadruplets).
They found my colon was obstructed and had to repair it.
I slowly recovered and found myself in severe pain
about 9 weeks later. At that time, they drained
a pelvic hematoma and that brought relief for about
7 more weeks. The pain then returned and they did
another laporotomy and found adhesions and an ovarian
cyst. They had tried doing a laparoscopy, but couldn't
get the scope in due to the adhesions. About 3 weeks
after this surgery, I was back in the hospital, in pain, with another
laparotomy looming. We decided that the
best course of action would be to do a total hysterectomy and
appendectomy while they were in there. They did those procedures, plus
lysed adhesions and used Interceed. After the surgery, my surgeon told
me that the adhesions weren't as severe as initially thought, but that I
did have many.
I am now 3 weeks post-surgery and starting to have more pain - I'm not
sure if it's related to adhesions or not. My surgeon is one of the many
that doesn't put a lot of credence into "adhesion pain." I doubt if
he'll want to do anything further surgically with me, and I don't want
that either.
I guess my question for anyone is how do you deal with the emotional
consequences of such a debilitating problem? I am currently on an
anti-depressant and it is helping, but I still have thoughts of
hopelessness and sometimes suicide. I want to be a worthwhile mother
and wife and it is so hard when in constant pain. If anyone has any
advice for me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you and take care all.
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