>----- Original Message -----
From: Rachel <rcmanus@ipa.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 2:19 PM
Subject: reality of pain questions
> I'd like some very honest answers...not just feel good/what it sounds
> like I want to hear. From reading posts here, it sounds like many of
> you are on some pretty intensive medications. I am in no way in that
> severe a situation. But I do have pain daily. Its the kind of pain
> that if, like a pulled muscle or head cold, I knew it would go away in a
> matter of days, I could handle it without pain medication. But do any
> of you find yourself questioning yourselves because you are taking meds
> not because you can't deal with the pain but because you are tired of
> having to deal with it. It's always there to some degree. I read so
> many stories of people who I know have such pain and suffering that I
> feel guilty taking anything for the pain and yet, sometimes I get so mad
> that its back again to any degree. It makes me wonder if now that I'm
> so tired of pain that maybe I have no pain tolerance anymore. I just
> dont have the energy or mental strength sometimes to deal with what may
> just be the equivalent of a side stitch or a menstrual cramp. I wonder
> if I have lost perspective. Looking for thoughts...
> Rachel
>