At Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jean wrote:
>
>Just thought I would share my experience at the GYN on Wednesday now
>that I am feeling better today both physically & mentally.
>It started a bad day as it was because I was in a severe depression due
>to family problems, my dad having a heart-attack, pain, not walking etc.
>etc.....everything this past year in particular just really building
>up!!
>
>I "only" went to the GYN because I had cancelled my yearly 4 times this
>past year due to all my problems and hip surgeries. He wouldn't refill
>my Estraderm Patches anymore if I didn't come. I definitely NEED them
>or I will definitely lose it! I knew it wouldn't go too well with my hip
>problems and adhesion problems on top of it but went.
>6 months after 2 hip replacements and in stirrups!
>A friend volunteered to take me so my husband wouldn't have to take off
>"again". I can't walk let alone trust driving!
>
>I don't really like this GYN but my nice GYN retired before my problems
>started over a year ago. He is the one who said nothing was wrong with
>me when my last ovary was attached to my vagina by adhesions and I had
>bad pelvic, back, hip and leg pain in 1989! My nice GYN found it and
>operated on that one. He was sooo nice I miss him.
>
>Sooo....I went back to this other one like an idiot, figured it's only a
>check-up & patches anyway.
>Naturally he wanted to know what happened to me when he saw me hobbling
>in on a crutch. Through our conversation the adhesions came up and my
>up-coming surgery. He told me I won't be any better after surgery which
>only made me feel even much more depressed.
>He asked why I thought it was adhesions and I need surgery.
>I told him my problems: Not walking due to L.hip, butt & leg pain. Pain
>in L.lower back, L.pelvic pain, regurgitation, heartburn, bloating,
>severe constipation, pain under ribcage and incontinence.
>He said there is a profile you would fit for adhesions and I don't fit
>it at all.
>He said you would just have all over discomfort in your abdomen (dah-did
>I miss something or did he?)!
>He said "and your bowels are working fine"!!
>I said "Yeah, if you call taking 12 Herblax every night to go is working
>fine I guess they are then"!
>I told him I have the pelvic pain where he took the other ovary out in
>1986 and he said "well, since I took it out we know that can't be
>hurting"! I told him "well...I know adhesions can re-form at the same
>areas again"!
>Well, according to him there is no ovary to reform on.
>That ovary WAS attached to my bowel and my pelvis and it took him 1 1/2
>hours just to free the ovary!!
>He said "well, your adhesions weren't that bad". I told him he better
>look at his notes again, which he did.
>Then he admitted it did take a long time to free the ovary and he also
>removed part of my omentum due to adhesions, and the omentum was
>attached to the abdominal wall along my incision.
>He still insisted my problem isn't adhesions though!!!
>I said to him "Well in 1989 you didn't think I had a problem either but
>my new GYN found that ovary attached to my vagina. He also found
>adhesions on the Gallbladder. He said "well, according to his notes
>they weren't bad".
>I said "well, maybe he didn't make notes of everything but he did tell
>me 'no wonder you were in so much pain' and that he never saw anything
>like it before, and I did have allot of the same symptoms at that time
>as now".
>Can you believe he still said they won't find anything!!!
>Not even taking in account the additional other 2 surgeries where i also
>had extensive adhesions all over my abdomen & bowels.
>He said he wants a copy of the operative report.
>I really didn't want to talk about it to this jerk in the first place!!
>He delivers LOTS of babies and I think that's ALL this guy cares
>about.....thousands of baby pictures all over the office.
>Problems...forget it!
>I don't need this guy since I am getting surgery.
>He also wanted to know who was doing it.
>I told him "I REFUSE not to walk the rest of my life"!!
>JEAN (from PA)