jenny low wrote:
> Dear Rose,
>
> Wow! This is wonderful! You know I experienced the almost exact thing you
> did. I went and saw my gyn for my 3 week post op and when I told him I was
> still in pain, he called the surgeon that did most of the surgery and they
> sent me over for a STAT CT. The only bad thing with me is that I had a TAH
> last June so I have nothing left but a vagina. So I am now considered more
> of a general surgery patient. I hate this because my gyn has taken care of
> me for 11 years. He has always listened to me and never doubted when I told
> him I was in pain. And now that I have no female organs left I can't go to
> him for the adhesions. And I am not real fond of the surgeon that helped
> him. I never saw him in his office before surgery. I met him in the pre-op
> holding area. I never saw him after my surgery either. I saw his 2
> colleagues. And the day I had the CT I was supposed to go directly to his
> office and see him. I saw his colleague. Then they were supposed to call me
> on Monday or Tuesday with the results of the CT. I called them Wednesday
> because I hadn't heard from him. He still hadn't looked at the films. They
> said if I hadn't heard from him by the next Monday to call them. Well I did.
> They were supposed to call me later that afternoon, well guess what? They
> didn't. SO I called them Tuesday. He still hadn't looked at the films. The
> nurse promised me he would call that day. Well he didn't call, she called.
> The CT was normal, of course, adhesions don't show on those. When I started
> telling her it was not in my head. SHe said she knew that and that they
> believed adhesions caused pain. And I started asking her questions. SHe
> asked me if I would like to talk to the surgeon. I said that would be nice.
> So she put him on the phone and he said there was nothing surgically that he
> could do for me. He thought I should see a pain dr and get the pain under
> control so I could have a life again. Then he put her back on the phone.
> When I asked what I should do if I ran out of pain meds, could I call them
> for a refill you know what they did? Told me I would have to go through my
> gyn. The surgeon had called me in a prescription on the Monday of the week
> that I talked to them. Do you know how many they called in? Ten. Ten lousy
> pain pills. My gosh I could go through those in 3-4 days. And that is
> exactly what happened. So my gyn is so wonderful that they told me they
> would refill until I got into see the pain dr. I go there April 10. I sure
> hate that I can't use my gyn any more though. I trust him so much. And that
> is what I am afraid of, not having a doctor who will listen to you and think
> you are nuts or better yet just trying to get pain meds. I cried tonight
> after dinner because I was really trying not to take any pain meds. I took
> the last one on Monday around 2pm. Well after dinner tonight, I was hurting
> so uncontrollably that I finally took one. But I sure cried because I don't
> want to live like this. I hate taking pain meds just to function doing every
> day things. I really pray that this pain dr will be trustworthy and will
> listen to me and believe me. By the way, can anyone tell me what the pain
> doctors usually do? I have had a few people ask me and I don't even know.
> This is all new to me. So if anyone can share with me what their pain doctor
> did, I would appreciate it. Anyway, this is where I am. I am just waiting
> for my appointment on April 10. I hope this doctor will be the right one for
> me.
>
> Love,
> Jenny
>
> >From: anonymous@medispecialty.com (Rose Lunn)
> >Reply-To: adhesions@adhesions.org
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
> ><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> >Subject: Things I learned yesterday
> >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:34:49 -0600
> >
> >I saw my gyn yesterday, he was very sympathetic. Sceduled my for a CT
> >scan TODAY, not later! Gave me pain meds. Explained exactly what he was
> >looking for with the tests he was going to do. After I got home and
> >took a pain pill, I got to thinking about why I felt so good even though
> >he hadn't done anything other than give me pain pills. It turned out
> >like this:
> >
> >Being listened to........think about it. We literally hear thousands if
> >not millions of sounds a day. Does that mean we are really listening to
> >them? NO! We only listen to the sounds that are important to us. This
> >doctor listened to me. He asked questions to clarify what I was saying.
> >He didn't just scribble a few notes, nod his head, and then do what he'd
> >decided to do before he even saw me. I no longer felt like a
> >non-person, a chart, an unimportant carrier of my disease!
> >
> >Being trusted..........how many doctors look at you like you have no
> >idea what you are talking about? I thought about all the doctors I've
> >seen over the long, long years and I realize that the only ones that did
> >me any good were the ones that trusted me to know what was going on in
> >my body. They are also the only ones that I remember both their faces
> >and their names. To all you nameless doctors out there.......now you
> >know how I felt!
> >
> >Believing in myself.........I have seen far more doctors that don't fit
> >the above criteria than those few gems that shine in my memory. And now
> >I realize that they had convinced me that I should be a good little girl
> >and let the big, specially trained doctors do all the talking and tell
> >me what I am supposed to feel and do. Well.......PHHHHHHHHHHT! I'm the
> >one in this body, not them!
> >
> >Sorry to go on so much about this, but even though I still am in some
> >pain (much less, thanks, Doc!), emotionally I am feeling GREAT!
> >
> >Thanks for listening to me ramble on!
> >
> >kcmo rose
> >
>