Re: I'm at my wits end..Help..
From: toni welsh (twelsh1@hotmail.com)
Wed Jul 11 07:26:16 2001
At Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Bobbi Yates wrote:
>
>I have ahd adhesions removed7 times with the last
>being 2 years ago. I am and have been having them
>again for the last 6 weeks, I was in the hospital
>for a week 3 weeks ago and they ran all the tests
>that I've already had done a dozen times before.
>I hadn't had a bowel movementfor 8 days they got that
>cleared partially and sent me home told me if it wasn't
>better in a week they would go in and remove the adhesions
>here I am 3 weeks later and still the pain is unbearable.
>I went to the Dr. today so he could order another cat scan of
>my abdomen and he also told me he couldn't give me nymore pain medicine
>because I might get addicted. I've tried to see another surgeon
>but no one else will touch me. The last ER doctor I saw
>said hat another Dr. doesn't want to clean up another Dr.s mess
>an I'm left to live with the mess.Any help that anyone could give me
>would be so helpful. Please feel free to email me.I'm 37 years old
>and am tired of livin in this much pain. Today my Dr. had the nerver
>to tell me to take Tyleol for the pain.
>
>--
>Bobbi Yates
>
Bobbi,
This is exactly where I am at! It took my gyn 12 general surgeons before
he found one that would be willing to do another surgery on me Now that
it took that many telling him they will not touch me, I am to scared to
go through it. But the yn has sent me to pain management clinic, and
they have me on Trazadone, Oxycontin, and Neurotin for the pain, it has
been over two years now going to them, and now the meds seem to have
stopped working. They gave me Fentnyl patch last september. I had
COMPLETE pain relief but after 24 hours on the patch, it made me very
sick for days! It is VERY frustrating to get some dr to believe you. My
gyn does, and pain drs, I think that is it! GI dr seems to not REALLY
think adhesions cause pain. I had 2 laparptomies within 5 months in 98,
I do not think I would have been through all that if I was not in pain!!
Love,
Toni