Re: I'm not alone!

From: Colette (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Wed Jun 20 14:17:28 2001


Lesa, Welcome to this site! First all wow so much you have gone through! I feel for you ! I'm new at this adhesion thing only 7 months i had a hysterectomy last dec.This site has truely saved my life a couple of times, the days i'm so depressed these wonderful woman help bring you back up we all help each other! You take care! Love colette >
>What a wonderful site this is. I have suffered with adhesions for many
>years. I have had several abdominal surgeries in the past, in 1998 I
>went in for a "regular" lysis of adhesion surgery and during the surgery
>the doctor nicked my bowel in several places, I ended up having three
>surgeries within three weeks and stayed in the hospital for over 8
>months. During the eight months, I had many complications, infections,
>additions...etc. It's been two years since my release from the hospital
>and I am in pain daily...sometimes I wonder if it will ever end. I am
>on Vicodin ES three times a day, my doctor doesn't want me to take it
>forever but I cannot function without some pain medication. I have been
>to pain management doctors who only want to give me more and more
>narcotics which help the pain but put me into lala land. Reading
>through these message boards and seeing that there are so many others in
>my same situation makes me feel not so alone in this daily suffering.
>Thank you all for being here and sharing with us all.
>
>--
>Lesa
>

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