At Tue, 28 Mar 2000, toni welsh wrote:
> >At Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Helen Chalmers wrote: >> >>Three months ago I had a total abdominal hysterectomy, and have suffered >>in severe pain ever since. Just two weeks ago my ob/gyn told me he sent >>my CT scan to a different radiologist and she diagnosed it as my having >>adhesions. O.K. now what? My ob/gyn told me that this would be my last >>week of pain meds. Need to figure out a better way to deal with the >>pain. Well, I just don't know how to deal with extreme pain. He has >>referred me to a general surgeon. I am not optimistic about this, >>because in reading all that I can about adhesions, it seems most general >>surgeons don't understand them very well. Can anyone tell me what kind >>of doctor I should see, or if anyone knows of a good surgeon who is >>experienced in adhesions in the Baltimore, Maryland area. I don't think >>I can live without the pain meds, which will stop next week (just >>because, my doctor, thinks I need to find an alternative method then to >>take them). I'd like to see him live with adhesions. Any HELP would >>certainly be appreciated. > >Helen, > >You are lucky someone told you that, my drs all say that adhesions show >up on NO tests. I ahve begged my gyn to do an ultrasound and CT scan >and he says it will show nothing because my female organs are gone, I am >planning on asking him when I take my sister Friday if he will pleas edo >one, it is not going to hurt, > >Then my other sister said he did an ultrasound on her 3 weeks ago, and >said she had some small functional cysts on her ovaries, and to take >provera , and she stopped it, will not listen, and she says he did >another one today, she tells alot of tales, when I had functional cysts >he always told me they are nothing to worry about, it happens when women >ovulate, and the eggs get stuck there each month. I wish I could talk >him into doing some test for me, he keeps on saying a CT scan will not >show adhesions, isn't it possible, I would rather have a negative test >befor e any surgery for now! > >Toni